High School Senior Portrait Special & Contest!

Posted on June 7, 2010

High School Senior Portrait Special & Contest

1 person – $300

2 people – $450

3 people – $600

4 people – $750

Let’s have some fun with your senior pictures! After all, it’s your last year in high school, and for some, it’s your last year in school with your friends. Here’s my idea:

Bring up to 3 friends along (who are also seniors and need their senior portrait taken) and I will take group pictures as well as individual ones. What I’d like to encourage is creativity. You can design your photo session however you want, as long as it’s clean and legal.

• wear costumes
• have a theme
• include pets
• incorporate your sport
• bring instruments if you’re musicians
• dance
• play!
• (insert your idea here)

Contest: for the individual or group that has the most creative photo session, you will win a 40 page hard bound photo book using the images from your session.

Included in your session:

• high resolution CD of artistically edited images from your photo session which include rights to reprint
• 1-3 hours of my time photographing your session
• up to 3 locations within 10 miles of each other
• unlimited wardrobe changes

Alright Seniors, let’s have some fun!

Schedule your sessions now before I’m all booked up!

I am only doing a limited number of sessions.

Contact: Darlene Terry ~ 563-7464

drt555@yahoo.com

Being able to look at a photograph and suddenly be transported back in time to a moment that only lives once, is an investment well worth its weight in gold.

To view more senior pics, click here!

Playing with Vintage {Maine Lifestyle Photographer}

Posted on January 3, 2010

It is so easy to get comfortable with a certain way of doing things. In regards to photography, post processing in particular, I have found myself seeking new ways of bringing to life the images I take. I visit hundreds of blogs. I sample hundreds of tutorials. I read hundreds of “how to’s.” But in the end I found myself slinking back into a familiar way of presenting my work. Maybe it’s my “style” or my “signature” – a way for people to recognize my images. For them to be able to say, “yep, that’s Darlene.”

But I want to grow. I want to feel expressive in a multitude of ways. I don’t want my post processing to be my signature. I want the emotion conveyed in the images to say “this is Darlene’s work.”

The following images are from a session I did towards the end of November. I’m still working on them. The good thing about taking so long is the images and I are evolving together. I am stepping outside my “photography comfort zone” with the intention of being open to many forms of expression. These images below have been treated with a vintage look. The hardest part about this change is when I put the original image and the vintage image side by side. I have to let go of the fact that the colors are different, especially skin tones. But what I’m loving is the energy shift. It really brings to life the feeling of the moment.

The direction of this post was inspired by the latest post on Shutter Sisters.

This image represents such a sacred moment.  I just love the synchronicity between Lea and Spartacus.

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