Photography Tips & Tricks: Confidence is key | Northern VA Family Photographer

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You can become a more confident photographer – yes, really! Being more confident in your photo-taking skills will mean better portraits. We might be a well-known family photographer in the Round Hill, VA area, but even we had to work on our confidence!

Here are eight tips on how to be a more confident photographer:

1. Shoot! And then shoot some more! Take lots and lots of pictures. Practice makes perfect, after all. Digital photography is terrific because there’s no expensive film to buy or waste. Shoot away! You can delete any photos you don’t like. So if you can, take pictures every day.

2. Even if you shoot on “auto” as an amateur photographer, try shooting on manual during various conditions – sunny, cloudy, and various lighting conditions.

3. Go back to school. Read books, read online, follow blogs, take a course or even a one-day class on photography.

4. Be mindful of what you’re not good at and make it a goal to learn more about that. Then practice what you’re learning as you’re learning it. Don’t wait to put into practice what you’ve learned.

5. Be confident even if you don’t feel confident. If you hesitate because you’re nervous putting that camera to use, then you won’t build up your confidence. Get that equipment out and give it a try.

6. Don’t be scared to try different methods or experiment with light. Again, digital photos mean you can delete, delete!

7. Study the work of photographers you admire. What do you like about their work? How can you emulate their work? Learn from other artists. It’s a great way to get better and get more confident.

8. Know your camera! If you don’t know how to operate your camera, it’s tough to feel confident.

The Round Hill, VA area is beautiful! Get outside while the weather is nice and get some great pictures! The more you shoot, the more confident you will get.

Other posts in this series:
Photography Tips & Tricks: Lighting tips for family snapshots
Photography Tips & Tricks: Get natural smiles from your kids!
Photography Tips & Tricks: Underwater Pictures
Photography Tips & Tricks: Pets

When you’re ready for a professional family portrait, be sure to give us a call at 571.434.0009! We look forward to meeting you!

Family Photographer, Portraits

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Round Hill, VA in Northern Virginia. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits.

Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,

Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

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What families are saying, Michelle | Northern VA Family Photographer

Being a family portrait studio photographer in Northern Virginia is such a pleasure! We proudly serve clients throughout the area, including Round Hill, VA and Purcellville, VA. For some families, portraits with us are the very first professional pictures they’ve had. We love the joy we see in those clients’ faces when they see their family portraits for the first time!

Family Portraits

Michelle and her two daughters, Isabella and Olivia, have had more than one session with us. The first one was held with the gorgeous fall colors as the backdrop. From that family session, Michelle chose a wall portrait collection in our unique Bamboo finish for her home.

She sent us some very kind words regarding both her experience with us as well as about those products. We were so pleased that she loved her portraits! When she later came back to us for a session in our indoor studio, we knew that we had truly made her happy!

Michelle’s Review of Ever After

“Once I scheduled my session, the magic started. Mindy & Joriana worked with me to figure out where I wanted to hang wall art and what various groupings of pictures would look like on various walls in my house, on the color schemes in my house so that the clothes would coordinate with it, and to plan clothing options that my daughters and I could wear.

“And on the day of our session, they were wonderful!! So amazing and personable. But it doesn’t stop there…during my ordering session they were so patient working through over 200 pictures and weeding out the ones I didn’t want and the ones I was on the fence with.

“They had so many different wall art options; of course, canvas, but they also had amazing options with bamboo, metal, and glass. In addition to wall art, they created a beautiful photo book for me. I actually hesitate to call it a ‘photo book.’ It’s a work of art, too! I don’t have strong enough words to express how much I would recommend them to others. I will definitely be working with them again!”
~ Michelle L., Arlington, VA

Family Photographer, Studio Photographer

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Round Hill, VA and Purcellville, VA in Northern Virginia. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits.

Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,

Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

Professional Photographer

Grandparent/Grandchild Portraits to be Treasured | Northern VA Family Photographer

Some of the most meaningful portraits we take as a family photographer in the Purcellville, VA area are with grandparents. They are a powerful tribute to the profound intergenerational love families share. They are a tribute to the legacy an older generation fosters with the younger generation of their family. If you haven’t considered doing a professional fine art portrait of your children with their grandparents, you should. Here are some beautiful examples we came across on Pinterest.

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So, why should you do a grandparents’ session? Here’s the one-word answer: Memories.

These portraits forever freeze in time a loving image of your child with their grandparent or grandparents. Depending on the age of your child, they may or may not remember their grandparents, or they may have only limited memories of them. Their together portrait is poignant evidence of their relationship even if the child doesn’t remember it. But, it’s also tangible proof of love.

As a photography studio, the importance of capturing the interaction, relationship, and the bond between our subjects is vital to the ethos of our work as fine art family photographers. Portraits need to evoke emotion by capturing emotion – that is what we believe as family photographers!

What can you do with these portraits?

Oh, you can do so many beautiful things with these portraits!

– Enlargements as a gift for your parents and order other ones for your own home!
– A beautiful album for the grandparents filled with gorgeous pictures of them with their beloved grandchildren!
– Order our frameless canvas portraits in any size for each of your children’s rooms – what better way to reinforce intergenerational love and connections?
– Order table-sized portraits for your office.
– The holidays are coming. Often entire families come together during the holidays. It’s the perfect time to schedule a multigenerational portrait session with the grandparents! One of our Generations Sessions would be a great choice for you.

The possibilities are endless.

Contact us to discuss more ideas on scheduling an appointment for your grandparent/grandchild portrait session. As a family photographer in the Purcellville, VA area, we enjoy shooting multigenerational portraits of our clients!

Family Photographer

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Purcellville, VA in Northern Virginia. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits.

Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,

Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

Professional Photographer

Do you follow us on Social Media? | Northern VA Family Photographer

Pssst! Would you like to know a little secret? We have a confession! We spend our days dedicated to photography and fine art portraits across the Round Hill, VA and Northern Virginia areas! But we love social media during our spare time!

Do you follow us on social media? If you don’t follow us, consider this your invitation. You don’t want to miss out on any of our fantastic information. What can we say? We aren’t just good at photography. We are also good at posting and collecting great information through social media – and it’s all to your benefit.

Like most people, we use social media for the interaction it affords us with clients, friends, and potential customers. Whether it’s Facebook, Pinterest or Twitter, we post a broad range of information including Ever After’s services and upcoming sessions. We don’t just post, though. We also use social media to keep up with the latest trends, products, and services related to our work.

Social media has done more than revolutionize people’s lives. It’s also influenced how businesses expose their brand and services and maintain an active connection to their clients. Here are some of the social media sites we use and the links to them.

We hope you’ll stay connected to us!

Facebook

Who doesn’t love Facebook?! You can find our website’s blog posts on our Facebook page along with other interesting information we like to post. Remember that when you “like” a Facebook page, you need to turn on notifications for that page, or you won’t see posts from that page in your news feed. To enable notifications for our FB posts, just hover your mouse over the “like” button and you’ll see a pop-up box. In that box, scroll down to Notifications and click on “on.” Voila! Now you’ll see our posts in your news feed. You can even send us messages via Facebook if you like! Let us know what topics you’d like to hear more about from us.

Twitter

Do you tweet? We do! You’ll find more information and tips from us on a broad range of things related photography, our work, and everyday life!

Google Plus

Although Google Plus isn’t yet as popular as other social media platforms, it’s a quick and easy way to find us — especially if you have a Google Plus profile as well! Click open our profile to find our contact information and a Google map for directions to our studios. You can send us a message or leave a review. Our blog posts are all right there by scrolling down the page!

Pinterest

We saved one of our favorites for last! We don’t know about you, but we love Pinterest! If you don’t have a Pinterest account, we encourage you to join. We have to warn you, though: it’s addictive! Our Pinterest account is there for YOU. We have 246 board full of ideas; 18,800 pins; and more than 2,000 followers! If you’re not one of them, you’re missing out! We have 16, yes, 16, boards on what-to-wear suggestions! We want to make your portrait session as stress-free as possible for you. Need some inspiration or ideas for your next portraits? We have 21 boards of inspiration. There are links to other photography websites for inspiration as well. We could on and on, but it’s much easier if you just visit our page and follow along!

If you’re interested in fine art photography and portraits in the Round Hill, VA or Northern Virginia area, we hope you’ll connect with us on social media!

Family Photographer, Family Portraits

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Round Hill, VA in Northern Virginia. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits.

Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,

Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

Professional Photographer

What families are saying, Deveney & Christian | Northern VA Family Photographer

As a professional photographer located in Northern Virginia, near Purcellville, VA, we specialize in family photography. This gorgeous mom, Deveney, wanted special portraits with her son, Christian, and we were more than happy to provide them! We featured Deveney and Christian on our blog a short time ago if you’d like to see more of their fall portraits.

Deveney sent us some very kind words regarding both the session and the products she chose. We are always pleased when we give our clients what they want!

“My experience with Ever After was that they were very accommodating with helping me with the colors of clothes, with rescheduling because of weather — and I really liked how they took the sunlight and the elements around us and made sure everything was in place to get the perfect shot. In addition, they just have the eye and the expertise to put everything in place together in the final product — I just love the design of my album!

“The quality of the products is like none other that I’ve seen. You can’t get what they create just anywhere and it’s not something that you see every day. I would not know where you could go to purchase what I have because it is so unique. I consider it art — it is so much more than putting a photo up; it’s capturing a moment and then being able to share that moment in time with everyone who enters my home.

“One of the things I loved about working with Mindy & Joriana was the custom nature of the products and how personal the service was. It was specialized and custom to fit my needs and desires. I didn’t want to just get one large single image; I loved so many of the images that I wanted a grouping to tell a story. They worked with me to choose images that complemented each other. I love enjoying the art on my walls every day. I look forward to being photographed again to document the next stage of my son’s life, hopefully with my parents.” ~ Deveney (from Virginia)

Family Photographer, Professional Photographer

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Purcellville, VA in Northern Virginia. We specialize in timeless and emotive fine art family portraits.

Family means everything and capturing those precious moments to preserve forever will mean family heirlooms for you to share for years to come.

Best,

Mindy & Joriana – Contact Us!

Professional Photographer