The Beauty PaRLR: SENIOR PORTRAIT 101 WITH RLR

It's something that everyone has to do when becoming a senior in highschool; senior portraits. They are either highly anticipated or extremely dreaded. (I have found 9/10 times they are something you are very very excited for and anxious to begin... That goes for you too boys, I know you love it!) My aim is to eliminate the dread and to reinvent the senior portrait from a modern, model-esque, pinterestworthy, standpoint.

As a photographer, one of my number one services I am requested for is senior portraits, so I have come to learn a lot about them! One of the most important choices you can make in planning this process is picking your photographer based on their previous work and style of photography. My goal as a photographer, when doing senior portraits, is to capture the individual's beauty/personality and to make the photograph look like art. For all you ladies out there, I do you hair and makeup before we shoot to make you look beautified and perfect!

There are a couple of things I aim to do during my senior portraits:

1. If you are a girl, I want to do your hair and makeup so you look like the most absolute perfect version of yourself. Keyword: looking like yourself!

2. I want you to look at that photo and think to yourself, "that is the most beautiful photo I have ever taken of myself, I cannot believe that is me!" I want you to look and feel like a model and to know that photo is THE ULTIMATE profile picture. Yup.

3. Make you feel extremely comfortable with me.

4. To get to know each one of your Juniors (soon to be seniors) individually and to understand who you are in our brief session; I would like to capture that personality and beauty so you can cherish that moment in time forever!

As Spring and Summer rolls around the corner, I am getting very excited to begin this season of senior portraits. I am looking forward to all you mothers out there who stand over my shoulder and weep as I photograph your beautiful child! And to all you grandparents out there, I look forward to you being in awe over the photo of your precious, beautiful grandchild whom you are so proud of. And to all you soon-to-be-seniors out there, in my eyes there is no other photographer who cares more about the outcome and perfection of your senior photo then yours truly. I, Rachael Lynsey Rubin, vow to make your senior portrait my life passion.

With this said, I am beginning to book for senior portraits for the Spring and Summer. Here are some past photos to peruse through ;)