an Outer Banks Photographers

Portrait Session at the Kitty Hawk Pier

The other day I had the pleasure of working by the Kitty Hawk Pier again. This time with a great family from West Virginia.

The session was in the morning and we were dodging rain drops in the beginning so we started

the session working under the pier, and then as the rain stopped we moved on the open beach.

Some pretty cool skies and light!

On another note I had a woman call yesterday and schedule a portrait session for August.

She shared that she had her families “portrait” done last year by another photographer and that she wasn’t at all pleased. The portraits were not really portraits, but just glorified snaps ( her words ), with everyone just standing and kneeling straight on  in front of the ocean, and then the same thing in front of a dune, with no design or compositional elements. The photographer delivered a disk of  “enhanced” digital files, with instructions for the client to have them printed at her own lab or an online “pro” one. The photographer selected the best of each pose and included them on the disk. My client had a few prints made, but never even displayed them. Her teenage children had blemishes that were not retouched, there were harsh shadows on the faces ( because the “pro photographer” did not really know how to balance and work with light ), and my client just put the disk and the few bad prints in the drawer and never displayed them or gave any to family members.

What a waste :-(   ……….of time and money.

Unfortunately I hear this same story over and over……….most “fauxtographers” that deliver a disk of “enhanced” digital files have no real knowledge of retouching and print enhancement techniques or skills, let alone lighting skills or the skills required for proper image capture, or much experience working with groups of people. Just because they have been in business for a few years does not mean they know what they are doing…………and when I hear someone say they are a “natural light” photographer or a “lifestyle” photographer I laugh because I know that means that they do not know how to use a flash properly or how to direct people into comfortable poses so that they look their best.

I’ve been doing this since 1978, and have my 10,ooo hours working with children, and another 10,000 hours with family groups, and another 10,ooo hours with……well you get it……….

Compare my work with others, and I think that you will see difference between me and most others.

If you want the best for your family, call me at 800.646.5812 and we’ll go over all the details and get you on the schedule.

( I can tell you right now that I am not the least expensive photographer here in the Outer Banks, but the best of anything rarely is)

Kitty Hawk Pier from the other morning.

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Got in a nice 13 miler this morning, brings the milage this year to 687.1

Thanks for visiting, see you next time!

This Corolla Outer Banks Photographers

week has been very busy, lots of great portrait sessions of large family groups, family reunions, families and children.

Here are a just a few……….hope that you like them :-)

This family was by my dune in Corolla,

and this large family group was in the Pine Island section of Corolla,

while these cousins were part of a family reunion and photographed in the Whalehead section in Corolla.

While I work in all sections of the Outer Banks ( OBX ) including Duck, Southern Shores, Kitty Hawk,

Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head, this week I’ve mostly been in Corolla.

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Here’s what I get to see almost every day on my morning run………….

pretty sweet!

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see you next time!

 

 

Outer Banks Photographers and portraits of children on the beach…………

 ………my classic beach portraits of your children, printed on real artists canvas, are portraits that you will be proud to display on your walls for years, and will be admired by all that enter your home.

Both of these images were created yesterday in Corolla OBX, one in the morning, and the other in the evening.

Images like these do not happen by accident, and do not come directly out of the camera.

It  takes a careful blend of psychology, art and photographic technique

to capture images like these, not to mention all the post production, retouching, overall image enhancement

and printing skills that makes my finished portraits come alive!

When you are ready for the best, you can reach me almost any time at 800.646.5812

Please click here and here to see more of my beach portraits.

Hope you’ve enjoyed these two images, see you next time!