Child Photography

I'm a good way through processing the images from the mom and child photography session yesterday, and am excited to show the gallery to my client. I already did a preview this morning but I found a new favorite I had to share. … [Read more...]

Mother’s Day Gifts

I just had a client purchase one of my sessions for his wife as a mother's day gift! I had not thought of this but what a lovely sentiment to give a mom and child photography session as a gift. He's inspired me to create special mother's day packages. If you are interested in these, I will create a gift certificate for you to give your wife, mom, or grandma. Sweet Mama $95 a mini portrait … [Read more...]

Portrait Special {Two free 8×10 prints}

I am starting to get a lot of inquiries for spring portrait sessions. As an incentive to book early, I am including two 8x10 prints (a $40 value) with any portrait session booked in March. These sessions can take place later in the year, and can be for any type of portrait (maternity, baby, family, seniors, or engagement). Take a look at my portfolio and email me to schedule a … [Read more...]

Digital Image Downloads

My clients often ask for a high resolution cd of the images from their portrait session. Up until now my solution was to have a base session fee and then an upgraded package that included 20-30 high resolution images from your shoot on cd. I am now thrilled to announce that I will be offering digital downloads of your individual image files. This will start in March. I still have to work out … [Read more...]

Child Photography and Photoshop

child-photography by reston photographer jessie mary

I am almost done editing Jenni's family portraits.  I posted this photo earlier with just basic post-processing. It's my favorite photograph of her older son so I thought I'd play around with it a little more, especially since I just got my new copy of Photoshop CS4. I love processing children's portraits because they are completely open to creativity.  In this photo I used one of my black … [Read more...]