High school senior portraits now booking!

This is an ad I have in a flier being printed by Wisconsin Lutheran High School in Milwaukee. Pretty spiffy, huh!




Here's the basic gist of the whole thing:

$175 for a one-hour on-location portrait session. On-location means I'll meet you wherever you want your pictures taken at. Usually (and preferably) outside :)
This session includes: up to 2 outfit changes, 1 8x12 canvas print, 6 months of password protected online hosting. Any additional hour is $120 per hour.

What's online hosting??
So glad you asked! Basically, I upload your photos to a private album online, and email you the link and password to get to them. You can pass the information along (forward the email) to basically anyone who has the internet and you would like to have access to your photos. Prints, photobooks, and other products can be purchased right from that site! Super dee duper easy! And, as a really cool bonus, after you buy $150 worth of stuff, you get a CD of the fully edited images, and the rights to those photos so you can then print anything extra wherever you want to, saving you lots of money :) That's always a really good thing, right?!?

I am booking now for this spring, summer, and fall.
email me ar (underscore) teest (at) yahoo (dot)com.
or you can contact me through my website, www.ebelingartstudio.com

Put a red chair in an alley......

...and this is what you get.

(ps. this is a high school senior photo.)



Thanks for a great time, Maggie!



Em

Being a High School Senior....

Has got to be interesting nowadays... but, well, it was probably "interesting" when I was a high school senior, all those years ago.
ahem.
over 9 years ago. yikes.

Anywho, I remember my senior portrait experience was not-so-exhilarating. My pics turned out okay, but I was just NOT comfortable, and it felt awkward while I was there in front of the huge camera in the studio setting, feeling very unsure of myself.
SO, I guess there's a notion out there that photographers are "old" and "stuffy", and this can be an anxiety inducing experience for a young man/woman to put themselves in front of a stranger and try to act natural.
Such was the case with Corina.
She was, according to her aunt, a nervous wreck all day long, and unsure of what to expect.




Needless to say, it didn't take long for her to get comfortable, and we really, really had a lot of fun.
oh, and her pictures turned out beautiful.

thank you, Corina!!
em

Pretty

Oh, how I missed photographing girls for High school senior portraits- I had done 5 senior guys in a row- so last night's shoot was really a breath of fresh air.
Not to be sexist or anything, but girls, in my experience, tend to be more natural in front of the camera.
Which, if you are a photographer, makes the whole shoot that much easier.

Here's one of my fave's:




Thanks, Meghan!


~Em