Creating a Timeless Portrait

Creating the Timeless Portrait

Welcome, and thank you for requesting the top four
things you can do to make your creative session a true
artistic portrait by Eric Vigil, Photographer and artist.
This will assist you in planning your Sensitive Emotional
Family Portrait investment you'll make....
....an investment in your family's Portrait
Heritage.

1. Selection of Clothing Color, Tone, and Style

When more than one person is to appear in the portrait, or
when a special stylistic effect is desired, clothing and prop
choices can make or break a portrait. So Color , the Tone and
Style are very important, but keep it simple and allow the color
tones to flow as your family looks best in.

2. SKIN TONE CONSIDERATIONS

Whether working with light or dark complexions, the objective
always is for the face to dominate the portrait. Accordingly, skin
highlights must be the lightest, brightest, or most intense areas
of the portrait. So when a medium to dark background is used,
all subjects photograph best in medium to dark tones, whatever
the skin tone.

3. Clothing for Small Groups/close families

Couples, small groups and families should choose simple
garments within the same tonal ranges. When subjects appear
in a mixture of light and dark tones and different patterns
together, there is a visual confusion - as the light color comes
forward, and the dark color recedes.
When this happens, one or more persons becomes dominant
and appears heavier than reality.

4. Creating Style and Personality

Our goal is to create portraiture as individual as the subject(s)
we photograph. Our tools include various styles, years of
techniques, and choices of settings that make each portrait a
unique peice of art.

Images with storytelling content or that portray special interest
of the subject(s) make decorative personal statements.

Eric promises to thrill you in capturing The Beauty, Love &
Emotions of your Life in a creative & beautiful portrait.

Why is wedding photography so expensive?

Wedding photography is not really "expensive" at all. Consider that you pay
more for those throw away frills than you do for something that you will
hopefully keep for a lifetime: a memory!

Wedding photographers, true bona fide photographers and not those that
pick up a camera and learn the rudimentary mechanics and call themselves
"professional" and "photographer" in the same breath... but a REAL wedding
photographer is lending you more than his/her camera gear but the know-how
to get maximum detail, and that comes from years of experience, training and
being up-to-date with today's technology and modern methods and
techniques, and having the equipment (which isn’t cheap) to perform the
required work.

What is the difference? Suppose a member of the wedding party has a rather
long nose that she's conscious of, the true-blue photographer will pose
everyone in such a way as to minimize physical faults (double chin, lazy eye,
take emphasis away from the rather tall girl and the very short and fat man...)
by using posing and lighting techniques and will know how to control the
guests that the bride and groom want photographed, will avoid excessive
glare from someone's eye-glasses, etc.

Not only that, you will also get someone who is professional enough to CARE
about his/her craft and you will be sure to get the BEST possible images.
Consider this, once the moment is gone, it is GONE forever... who would you
entrust to that memory as important as your wedding, an amateur or someone
who makes a living doing this?

There is a reason why a professional is called a professional. Yes, some
amateurs are talented and can capture an occasional good photo... but the
professional has the experience to know when to press the shutter button, as
opposed to just machine-gunning the shutter button in hopes of catching a
few good photos... and then, there's the importance of cropping and setting
the image in the frame of the camera... Do you REALLY think that person who
has spent so many years honing his skills and talents shouldn't be paid what
he feels he/she is worth? If you don't think so, just buy a point and shoot
camera and give it to one of your friends and tell that friend to do your
wedding...

You don't skimp on the caterer or the florist or the decorations but you want to
skimp on something that will last a lot longer... The memory of your most
important day of your life? You don't haggle with the caterer, the florist or the
reception site management or the limo driver... but you would question a
person who is going to provide you with images that will be in the family for
decades to come...? Think about that one...

"I met a bride & groom of 3 years, and asked about their wedding
pictures. "They were terrible" the Bride said quickly I asked who took
them and why, she said "all the photographers were $900 and up, and
a friend said she'd do it for free." & "she had a professional digital
camera" but we'd give anything to have some professional images at
the beautiful location our wedding was at"
(Ashley & Damien B.)
....an investment in your WEDDING & LIFE.
Start it right, hire a professional.