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Boulder Family Photography – Considering hiring a photographer for those Christmas Card pictures?
When you look to hire a photographer the best advice I can give is to look at their work, preferably their most recent work, in order to determine if you love their work enough to hire them. It is really easy to look at pictures and see yourself in them. In fact that is what I want my prospective clients to do, love my work so much you can see yourself in my images and hire me to document your family. I would love to tell your story in images. However, there is one important thing to keep in mind. Every single session is different. This is true for both outdoor and indoor sessions. Trying to produce an identical image, even one of my own, at the same time of day/location or with the same equipment is unlikely.
Light is the most important element of photography and can have the biggest effect on the images produced in a session. The light at every session is different, it even changes within each session. Take this location for example, my favorite view of the mountains! I have shot here many times for myself and clients and no image is the same.
Now imagine the disappointment if you saw the image on the right and wanted an image just like that but received the image on the left? Don’t worry this was not the case here! Same camera, same lens, slightly different focal lengths but vastly different images. Image on the left was taken in May and the image on the right in March. What a difference 2 months makes, right? Let’s look another 3 months back at an image from the previous December. Same season so similar foliage, or lack there of, and similar light but the sky didn’t show the beautiful clouds as it did in that March image. Unfortunately weather and light cannot be predicted for the day of a session and we work with what we are given.
So review a photographer’s portfolio and hire them for the quality of their work, but know that every session is different and we will create some amazing images of you and your family!
Looking for a family photographer in the Boulder, Colorado area? Colie James Photography offers lifestyle family photography sessions in Boulder, Fort Collins, Denver and the surrounding areas that tell the story of you and your family. For additional information on Boulder family photography sessions please click here or email me at info@coliejamesphotography.com. Would love to hear from you.
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