best senior portraits

November 14, 2019November 7, 2019

| Tara | Argenta-Oreana High School Senior Model Influencer | Class of 2020 |

Ready to check out another of our lovely senior models today?!? Tara is up on the blog and I’m so excited to show off all her favorite images with you all!! We’re starting a little out of order because this series of images of her in the yellow flowers might be some of my favorite we’ve done all year and I cannot even wait until mid-blog post to share them so here you go…..

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Our senior models get ‘pop up’ sessions throughout their senior year to not only create a variety of images for them in all kinds of seasons and weather but also to create fun experiences shooting in new/different locations, with unique props, etc. If you’d like to join us as a senior model and influencer you can apply now. We’ll start interviews again in January and our team will be completed by spring, don’t wait, we’d love to have you join us for an unforgettable and impactful year!

November 7, 2019November 7, 2019

| Brittney | Warrensburg-Latham High School | Class of 2020 Senior Portraits |

Hey again! Today, I got to talk to a group of young future CEOs (high school entrepreneurship co-op came to the studio today!) and while showing them one of my amazing time management tools (go CoSchedule whoopwhoop) and we talked about how it helps me stay on top of my blog even during the busiest times of the year…. THEN we talked about how even with all the best tools you’ll sometimes be failing in one aspect of your business. Like me not blogging for the past month, oops!

Oh well, I’m back in the saddle again here and let me tell you I have so much to share with you starting today with the amazingly talented Brittney of Warrensburg-Latham High School. I believe she has the most ever metals we’ve done for the metal pose and she survived it like a true champion (holding those metals is NOT easy even for a minute).

I hope you enjoy everything we created for her in the studio, around town and at the high school. She was a joy to photograph and I’m in love with her canvas collage and album design too.

I love it when seniors incorporate their sports, interests, hobbies, friends, pets, etc into their session…. these images are about WHO you are, not just what you look like. They are about who/what you love right now, at this moment in time. It will change, of course, but that’s why we are creating these images now. When you’re on the cusp of that major change from a child into an adult. If you’d like us to help you create, not just take, your senior portraits get in touch, we’d love to work with you!

April 30, 2019April 29, 2019

| Tucker | Maroa-Forsyth High School Senior Guy Portraits |

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Today, I get to share Tucker’s senior session with you. He’s just weeks away from graduation!!! We hung out around the high school to create a variety of looks to celebrate the end of his high school career.

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019

| Cory | Maroa-Forsyth High School Senior Guy Portraits | Class of 2019 |

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Hey guys (like literally GUYS)… senior portraits are not just for the ladies! Sure, maybe you haven’t been thinking about your senior pictures for years (or maybe you have – we love that!).. maybe you think it will be uncomfortable or weird. I get it, for real… I have been a photographer for 15 years and with my husband for all 15. Luckily for him the annual photo sessions didn’t really start until after we got married and had kids but NOW I make this poor man have his photo taken EVERY SINGLE YEAR (I mean, he married a photographer, he should have known).

So what does that mean for you senior guys?!?! It means that not only behind the camera but also in front of it I’ve learned how to make you 100% comfortable… I’ll make sure you know what to do in front of the camera and then we’ll laugh and joke and hang out and make it way less stressful and boring than you may think it could be.

We do have to start with a plan, this is YOUR session and we need to design it to fit you and show off who you are. Love your truck? Bring it! Love your dog? You better bring him/her! Love your gun, bow, 4 wheeler, boat, sports, games, guitar, drums (you name it)…. BRING IT!

February 20, 2019February 20, 2019

| Makennah | Argenta-Oreana High School | Senior Model Class of 2019 |

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Guys, can I let you in on a little secret. The first time I ever photographed twin seniors was a few years ago and I was so worried when they first booked that I would do a whole session and not be able to tell them apart. That I’d mix them up while editing and merge two individual people into one person and that’s absolutely NOT something I wanted to do because they are two people, two individuals with two separate personalities and lives and it’s my job to celebrate and show off BOTH.

Well let me tell you, my worry over this lasted about 45 seconds after meeting those first two seniors! It was SO clear (even with identical twins in that first instance) that those two guys were 100% different people with different styles and personalities and mannerisms etc and, after all, it IS my job to observe and see these subtleties in each of us so doing so in twins was no problem after all. Now, this time around with Makennah & Morgan I was confident that working with them both this year as models would not be a challenge at all and would rather be even more rewarding as I get to work with the whole family to create images that showcase each of these ladies as well as work to create a few images (at the very end of their model experience) of them together to celebrate their sisterhood too.

It’s been such a pleasure to have Makennah on the model team and to get to hang out with her to create images that show off not only how gorgeous she is but to highlight her talents too. So today, I’m thrilled to get to share all those favorite images with all of you guys!

If this looks fun (it is!), we’d love to have you join us for a year-long senior portrait experience as a part of our senior model team. We are now accepting applications for the class of 2020 AND 2021 online at sjanephotography.com.