Traditional School Pictures ADJACENT - Unposed, Unprompted, Unscripted - Kids Personality Portraits

These are the school photos you'll want to send to everyone in the holiday family letter. These are the school pictures that scream your student's personality, the kind that showcases whatever they want to give that day, the kind of photos that prove your student has way too much personality for the one and done School Picture Days. You need more than one image taken in a dark gym, with bad lighting, scared smiles, and shocked wide eyes to tell your kids story and who they are right now.

You can get personality portraits, quickly, with the convenience of being at home, AND have fun doing it.

Sometimes you can have it all.

Kids Personality Portrait Portfolio

Your students don't have to be school aged, in traditional school, or even in a certain milestone chapter of their life to have their personality captured.

How will your kid show up in front of the camera alone for five minutes?

Guaranteed outcome: it will be who they are in that moment as honest and true, no filter, and those are moments to be immortalized annually.

Right at home, friend.

Where are your kids most comfortable? Where are any of us most comfortable? The answer is very simple. Because it is what makes a house a home. Mom and dad close by, siblings making silly faces behind me, natural window light, maybe they are holding their favorite stuffy.

Friend, a home is where the memories are made, the magic happens, and the real, gutsy, honesty type emotions - including the very silliest ones - are free to be expressed...

The glow that emanates when your little human is comfortable and confident enough to shine in their very own unique way - those are the faces I want to see in front of my camera.

elementary school aged home school girl student sits for her school pictures at home gripping the arms of the chair and whips her pigtails from side to side causing her curly hair to fly everywhere while she laughs, giggles, smiles

elementary school aged home school girl student sits for her school pictures at home as she stares directly to camera with a big smile on her face, white shirt, blue bows in her hair in pigtails

elementary school aged home school girl student sits for her school pictures at home as she lowers her chin, staring directly to camera, with a mischievious smile on her face blue bows in her white shirt sitting in a pink chair

elementary school aged home school girl student sits for her school pictures at home leaning toward the camera with a big gapped tooth smile on her face white shirt black and white picture bows in her hair

You've got PERSONALITY, kid.

I'm not here to tell your kid to smile. No thanks, those days are done. We've seen them smile. Also, you have about 12,000 cell phone pictures of your kid "saying cheese".

I'll pass.

I want the solemn. I want the laughing. I want the ponder. I want the unsure, the inquisitive, the dancing, the silly. I want the in-the-middle-of-a-joke-can't-understand-the-punchline photo that shows the guts, the confidence, the clever, and the witty.

Don't tell me you can't FEEL a photo, I will prove you wrong in a heartbeat. Give me a kid who is at peace enough internally to show me all the personality externally.

Call them Kid Personality Portraits or School Photos, or call them what you will. These portraits are of your kid being them. JUST. Themselves.

elementary school aged home school girl student sits for her school pictures at home as she gives her self peace sign antlers or bunny ears with both hands smiling with wide eyes and crazy smile with her gapped teeth staring directly at the camera

elementary school aged home school girl student sits for her school pictures at home sitting in a backwards chair, holding on to the back of the chair, tilting her head to one side, staring at the camera, with a straight solemn serious face

elementary school aged home school girl student sits for her school pictures at home sits in a backwards chair and a white shirt starting to blow a kiss to the camera with fingers up to her lips staring right at camera blue bows white shirt

elementary school aged home school girl student sits for her school pictures at home looks solemnly off camera with her chin in her hands bows in her hair sitting backwards in her chair resting her elbows on the back of the chair

How does it work?

First you have to schedule your School Photo Personality Portrait session.

Pay the session fee.
Fill out your contract.

BOOK HERE

You're going to pay an initial session fee for me to get out there, setup, and edit the photos.

You can add on things like:

Additional children (siblings, cousins, neighbors, besties, teammates)
Mileage (I include 15 miles from Round Hill Virginia in the session fee)
Headshots for you (need just a refresh? While we have the setup, we might as well)

Pick the outfit and put it on them the day of the session. Want some styling assistance? You can go HERE to look at my styling blog or reach out and I'll give you some quick tips.

On your session day, I'm going to come to your house, setup my 5x7ft background in the most naturally lit part of your home. I have a couple extra small lights to supplement if needed.

Each student gets about 5 minutes in front of the camera. That's all we need if conditions are right. If someone is feeling nervous, anxious, or unsure. We take our time. I will absolutely get some tears photos in there - you have to remember those too (all emotions matter). But I will also wait very patiently for the other emotions to come around.

In three to four weeks I'll deliver your gallery. I guarantee 20 images to choose from, most of the time you'll receive more.

You get to decide how to purchase them. I am here to help if you need.

If you want them all digital you can choose between individual images, a package of 5, or all of them.
If you need / want prints to share with friends or family (just like the good ole' days, the wallet school photo swap), I have print priced similarly to what you'd receive from traditional school picture day companies, ranging from minis to 11x14s. I also have magnets, acrylic blocks, wall art, and albums priced to gift and share.

I'll order your prints, deliver them when they are shipped to me and WAH-LAH - your school picture day dilemmas are complete.

If you want me to help with sizing, making a list of family and friends, or even pre-addressing your envelopes to send them out, I can do that too!

If this feels very similar to school picture day... its meant to. Except now you're involved, you get WAY more personality from your kid than the school gym ever would, the process is customized to your child's needs, and what you want as a doting parent.

If school picture day is really about capturing who your kid is right now, we need to reeeeaalllly show the world who your kid is right now. And to me that can be accomplished with more than one photo, where they love to be most, when they feel they are at their safest, and when they are actually being SEEN as humans, not just a number in a long line of co-students.

I'm on a Mission

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My mission is to give you the opportunity to line your walls with your child's personality. Each image being unique, and expressing exactly who your child was at that age.

I want you to FEEL the personality when you see it. I want a stranger to be able to walk in your home and KNOW your kid by looking at those photos on the wall.

(Completely theoretical, I'm not actually condoning letting strangers into your home to snoop around your family photos)

Drop your questions in the comments or use the CONTACT ME page to reach out AND ask me how you can set this session up every year, annually, so you don't have to even think about another thing to "stay on top of" or remember to do.

I gotchyou!

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School Photos for toddlers, homeschoolers, or students who are too cool for school picture days

Traditional School Pictures ADJACENT - Unposed, Unprompted, Unscripted - Kids Personality Portraits

Right at home, friend.

You've got PERSONALITY, kid.

How does it work?

I'm on a Mission

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