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What is museum quality glass? | Northern VA Family Photographer
Protecting your precious portraits for generations to come is as important as selecting the best family photographer in the Lansdowne, VA area! Our years of valuable experience have taught us the importance of protecting your family portraits in various ways. This can include framing and the use of museum-quality glass. Keep in mind, though, that even the highest-quality printing of fine art family photos like we offer can’t fully protect from exposure to UV rays. Nothing can. However, there are ways to lessen the effects of UV rays. Museum quality glass is one way to do this.
What does museum-quality glass do?
If you place a family photo behind any standard framing glass, the glass will block about 40 percent of UV radiation. Ask any preservationist, museum or gallery owners or artists and photographers and they will tell you that it’s simply not enough.
According to Glass Magazine, an industry journal, ultraviolet light accounts for approximately 50 percent of fading damage in artwork or photography, and there is no reversing the fading process once it’s occurred. As a result, the glass industry developed glass UV-blocking film for framing glass to better protect valuable art and photography. Museum-quality glass blocks about 98 to 99 percent of UV rays.
While any piece of glass or acrylic will protect a framed picture from casual physical damage, only museum-quality glass can provide the best possible, long-term protection for your cherished framed portraits.
Museum-quality glass protects art not just from fading from UV rays, but from becoming brittle. It also reduces glare when artwork is viewed from different angles and minimizes the mirror-like effect of typical glass, thus improving the intensity of colors and details.
Costs
Museum-quality glass does cost more than regular picture glass. Prices vary greatly depending on size. read more…
Fine Art Product | Giclee Bamboo Wall Art
We know that you want the absolute best for your beloved family. This is why you chose Ever After as your professional photographer and Northern Virginia near Lansdowne, VA as your scenic background.
You have had your portrait session and now you are reviewing your family images, and they are spectacular! As you look at each member of your family in the portraits, your heart swells because each is perfectly reflected in the portraits; their personalities shine. After some serious deliberation over which ones to select (there are so many fabulous ones!), you have one final decision to make. How would you like to permanently print your memories?
Given our years of experience with family photography, we understand the importance of offering our clients a wide variety of high quality products from which to select! Your portraits are invaluable to you. They’re precious fine art to be enjoyed for years to come and to be gifted to the next generation. You would like to have your portraits displayed in a way that’s sophisticated yet different.
One of the many products we offer, Fine Art Giclée Bamboo Wall Art, part of our frameless line of wall art, could be just what you’re looking for, because it offers two museum-quality mediums in a 100% earth-friendly, green product. Our Fine Art Giclée Bamboo Wall Art is printed onto bamboo using archival, water-based inks.
There are two key components to this: read more…
Family Portraits, The Tauch Family | Northern VA Family Photographer
As an experienced family photographer located near Lansdowne, VA, we absolutely love being sought out by clients to be the “documentarians” of their family’s love and lives! That’s why we opened a portrait studio and became family photographers! We cherish the role we play in each of their lives as we memorialize their relationships for generations to come. We appreciate the trust they put in our portrait studio.
Outdoor Portrait Park Studio
We recently had the opportunity to work with a truly special family with an extraordinary and exceptional bond. It was an honor and privilege to capture the Tauch Family’s loving relationship. Both Kim and her husband Eric serve in the U.S. military, and their beautiful family was formed through adoption. We know how special and strong the bonds in military families are, and the Tauch Family are no exception. With two parents serving in the military, two active and adorable little girls (and one dog), this family is very active and loves the outdoors. Despite their busy lives, Kim knew the time had come to capture their family’s loving bond and their adorable daughters in family portraits.
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Clothing for Your Family Portrait – How Important? | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a professional photographer located near Lansdowne, VA in Northern VA, we specialize in family fine art photography and creating beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for years to come. Many families are turning to fine art photography for their family portraits. A professional photographer will also assist you in your clothing choices for your portrait.
How important is your choice of clothing to your family portrait?
A memorable and timeless family portrait is achieved through planning and attention to detail. The care and attention to color, coordination of clothing, setting of the family portrait, all the way through to the correct framing of the image you choose to display, is part of the customized service we, as family photographers in Northern Virginia, provide to our clients.
But how important, really, is clothing to your family portrait?
The goal of any fine family portrait is to direct attention to where it belongs, your family’s faces. The proper choice of clothing allows the face to be the focus of the portrait, not the clothing. Poorly selected clothing can detract from an otherwise wonderful family portrait. Because of this, what you wear for your portrait is just as important as all of the other details, such as lighting and location.
In general, clothing should be read more…
Single Wall Art Portrait or a Collection of Portraits? | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a professional family photographer located near Lansdowne, VA in Northern VA, we specialize in family photography and creating beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for years to come. As we have both a 2.5-acre outdoor portrait park and a fully-equipped indoor studio, we provide both indoor and outdoor studio photography. Because we believe that photography websites should also be informative, we want to share with you a question we often hear from our clients.
Should I choose a single wall art portrait or a collection of wall art portraits?
You’ve had your family portrait session with a professional family photographer. You had a wonderful time, and you know you’ll have beautiful portraits of your family to choose from. Now the hard part begins. Should you choose one large single wall art portrait, or should you choose a collection of images for a wall art grouping?
Wall Art Portrait Collections, or Groupings
As family photographers in Northern Virginia, we normally recommend wall art collections of multiple images for this reason: Your family’s story can be told much better through several images, than in one. During your portrait session, we strive to capture the genuine love and affection family members have for each other, the unique expression on your little girl’s face, the one that makes you say, “That’s her!”, and the little mischievous grin your little boy sports when he thinks he just got away with being cheeky, and that special smile your husband has just for you. Several of those little moments collected together tell a far greater story about your family than one single moment will.
Wall art collections, or groupings, provide the opportunity to tell a story, create a narrative, and reach beyond a single image. When any set of images are displayed together, the viewer immediately draws connections between them, making the total greater than the sum of its parts.
A family wall art collection is perfect for a wall in the room where your family typically gathers. For some families, that’s the family room. For others, it’s the dining room. Wherever your family spends the most enjoyable time together, that’s the room which should have a wall art collection of gorgeous family portraits, portraits which you’ll see everyday and which will make you smile.
Some families prefer to have a collection up the main stairway wall or in the entryway of their home. They want to see lovely portraits of their family as soon as they walk in the door to their home, and they want to immediately share them with read more…
Family Portraits, Deveney and Christian | Northern VA Family Photographer
As photographers located in Sterling, VA, near Lansdowne, VA, we specialize in family photography and creating beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for years to come. As a Northern VA family photographer we realize how very busy our area is, and we truly appreciate it when you schedule time to have your family portraits with us.
Deveney and Christian came to Ever After Portraits because it had been several years (nearly four) since they had had a family portrait together, and Christian had grown so much in those years.
Outdoor Portrait Session/Mother & Son
Having an appreciation for photography, Deveney wanted a family photographer who could give her outdoor portraits, with the bold and beautiful fall colors as a backdrop, and she really wanted something special with her son, portraits she could display on the walls of her home.
Outdoor Park Studio In Autumn
When Deveney and Christian arrived for their portrait session with us, we just knew that these family photographs were going to be amazing. Both were just so read more…
Is hiring a professional family photographer too expensive? | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a professional photographer located near Lansdowne, VA in Northern Virginia, we specialize in family photography and creating beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for years to come. As we have both a 2.5-acre outdoor portrait park and a fully-equipped indoor studio, we provide both indoor and outdoor studio photography.
Do you feel that hiring a professional family photographer is just too expensive?
Well, have you considered what you’re getting when you hire a family photographer?
You think you’re hiring someone who takes photos, right? You are, but that’s not all! There is much, much more than that.
When you hire Ever After Portraits as your professional family photographer, what you’re actually paying for is:
Is Portrait Wall Art Really Worth It? | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a portrait photography studio located in Sterling, VA, we specialize in family photography and creating beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for years to come. As we have both a 2.5-acre outdoor portrait park and a fully-equipped indoor studio, we provide both an indoor and outdoor photography studio.
With the ready availability of cameras today, on our phones and other devices, people are constantly taking snapshots. Our faces are all over social media, sometimes even if we don’t want them to be. It seems like everyone with a camera suddenly thinks they are a photographer. After all, it’s so easy to snap a photo; everyone does it all of the time!
Does this easy access to cameras mean that there is no need for professional family photographers? Does it mean that, with the availability of digital media, there is no need for large wall portraits of your family to display on your walls?
Investing in portrait wall art
Is investing in quality wall art portraits of your family worth the cost?
Digital media lives and dies on your hard drive. Consider how often media storage methods change: 8”, 5.25”, 3” floppies; ZIP drives; CDs; DVDs; Blu-ray; USB, and on and on. What will be next? Once the method changes, it’s next to impossible to recover anything from the previous storage method. Would you be able to look at photos on a floppy disk right now? But at the time, it was considered the “latest technology.”
There is, however, lasting value in investing in portrait wall art. At Ever After, our goal as family portrait photographers, is to create beautiful wall art of your family, something worthy of being displayed on your walls, wall art that will decorate your home with the ones you love. We create heirloom pieces that you can pass down to the generations after you, to your children, and your children’s children.
With wall art, you will enjoy portraits of the ones you cherish every day. We want you to have the enjoyment of coming home every day, after a long day’s work, sitting down, perhaps on your couch, looking up and seeing portraits of the ones you love, laughing, snuggling, cuddling and enjoying the closeness you share as a family. You’ll be able to say “That is what’s truly important!”
Image of the Week | Family Portraits | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a family photographer located near in Sterling, VA, in Northern VA, we specialize in family portrait photography. We create beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for years to come. As we have both a 2.5-acre outdoor portrait park and a fully-equipped indoor studio, we provide both indoor and outdoor studio photography. Professional pictures of your family are sure to be loved!
We couldn’t choose just one image of this beautiful little girl; so we chose three! Jocelyn was so very expressive and it was a joy getting her to just have fun and laugh and play in front of the cameras.
From the top of her dainty head to the tips of her toes, Jocelyn was a little lady. So we asked her to make some funny faces, and she delivered with a roaring lion . . .
. . . and lots of laughter!
After some laughter and fun, it’s easy then to get the portrait that Mom and Dad will love.
Arianne, Dollcake Vintage Children’s Portraits | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a portrait photography studio located in Sterling, VA in Northern VA, we specialize in family photography and creating beautiful portraits which you’ll treasure for years to come. As we have both a 2.5-acre outdoor portrait park and a fully-equipped indoor studio, we provide both indoor and outdoor studio photography. We know how precious a special family photo can be to a family!
Little Girl’s Fantasy Portrait Session
Maria brought Arianne to us for a Limited Edition Dollcake Vintage Session, our special sessions for portraits of children. Maria wanted portraits of Arianne in a vintage style setting with vintage accessories.
Arianne is a little sweetheart!
Although a little shy at first, Arianne is such a sweet and adorable little girl. She loved the glittery rose-colored dress, one of the costumes we provide for this particular session, and she looked beautiful in it. With her very own top hat and her lovely smile, she was a perfect little doll.
