Last week I did a nice family portrait session at a local park. I photographed the couple’s wedding 3 years ago, and since then they had a baby girl, and I have photographed the baby and the family as a group on many occasions. One aspect of my business I find very rewarding is when a customer is well satisfied, they show your work with them off to friends and family, as well as on social networks. I have formed many great friendships with my clients, and this great family is a prime example. Plus they remember me for future photography needs. Now that baby turned 2 years old, and we met at the park to do her 2 years old photos, and some with her older sister. Nashville has some wonderful city parks, go here for more information. http://www.nashville.gov/parks/

For the photography nuts, I used my off camera Elinchrom Quadra, shot at f8 and my goal with the fill light was to kill any sun related shadows, or have an underexposed subject, and a background 4 stops overexposed, lol. I wanted to get them in some shade to avoid squinting from the sun. When I was going through the photos with the family, I decided to make them a panoramic photo, like a collage, made up of several photos. Theirs will be 10″x30″ which fills space nicely, especially on those walls that are wide and not that tall, like over windows, or in hallways, etc. Plus something different. I have always liked collages and panoramas, though my particular taste is unframed, but rather mounted like on foam core or a wooden metallic wrap, so that way you can see the integrity of the print. The quality of the print in either case is vital. Between the printing and color process, paper quality, and overall  print integrity, years will tell the tale between a quality lab print and a loss leader retailer print that will not hold up as well. For someone to go through the effort to hire a portrait photographer to capture their moment, and buy cheap prints makes little sense. I look forward to seeing this on their walls soon