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How can I decorate a hallway with artwork of my family? | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a leading studio photographer in the Ashburn, VA area and surrounding communities, clients often ask us how and where they can display their beautiful fine art portraits of their family. We help to address this question during our pre-portrait-session chat! This is one reason we have a consult prior to your session. The main reason, though, is to get to know you, your lovely family and your style. We know you’ve made an investment in your portraits and we want you to display them in ways you can enjoy for many years to come.
You don’t need to look much farther than your hallways. They are a blank canvas waiting to be made beautiful with your new professional photography portraits!
Wall Art
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Scenery across our state worthy of portraits! | Northern VA Family Photographers
We are so fortunate to live in such a beautiful state! We love using the landscapes surrounding the Ashburn, VA area as a backdrop for many of our portraits. As photographers, it’s like having our own private library of scenery and landscapes!
We recently came across this really interesting article, “18 Beautiful Places in Virginia You Didn’t Know Existed,” about some little known or even unknown places across our state. We poured through the sites online imagining ourselves in each one – with our camera equipment, of course! We are photographers, after all! Some of these sites could make stunning backdrops for portraits.
Here’s an excerpt of the first five sites listed in the article. You can click on each one to be redirected to their site. read more…
Capture Memories with Contemporary Ice Wall Art | Northern VA Family Photographer
We know that when it comes to family, memories are priceless. As a top studio photographer in the Ashburn, VA area and surrounding communities, we know that our clients seek us out because they want the very best for their families. Once the portraits are taken, the next important step is deciding how to preserve and enjoy them.
Framing
The concept and method of archival framing is a relatively newer concept in fine art photography. But it’s really been in the last few decades that archival or museum-quality framing has become more widely used by fine art photographers. At Ever After, we understand the importance of museum-quality framing because we know how important your portraits are to you. However, some clients prefer a frameless wall art option. To that end, we offer an array of first-rate frameless products to help you display your memories and enjoy them well into the future.
Our products are well crafted and carefully selected by us as photographers to ensure the very best quality for our clients and their portraits. We offer you a wide range of options: from our framed and frameless items, through to our portrait boxes and albums. We think you’ll be quite happy with whichever product you select from us.
Wall Art
One client favorite is our Fine Art Giclee Ice Wall Art. A frameless option to traditional framing, our Ice Images are a contemporary and unusual way to present your beautiful portraits. The images appear almost ethereal and are captured on what appears to be a sheet of ice, or glass. They are non-breakable and face mounted with rivets at each corner giving it that contemporary look. The image in this technique is opaque but captures bold color and detail exceptionally well. Each portrait has finished edges and can be mounted to appear as if it’s floating. Like all our other products, the quality is museum and gallery-grade and elegantly finished.
As photographers, Ice is one of our favorite finishes — so much so, that we chose it for our own family portraits! read more…
David, Headshot | Northern Virginia Photographer
David, Headshot | Northern Virginia Photographer
Here’s a recent headshot we did!
Family Photographer
Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Leesburg, 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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Using Our Portrait Boxes to Tell Your Story | Northern VA Family Photographer
Many of our clients fall in love with all or most of their portraits. We hear it over and over again as a family photographer working with our fabulous clients across the Northern Virginia area, including Lansdowne, VA and Sterling, VA. We’re humbled and thrilled each time we know a client is so excited by our portraits! However, we realize that putting all of your portraits on display across your walls might not be the most practical thing to do. When you love more images than you can display on the walls of your home, our lovely Portrait Boxes make a a wonderful addition to your wall art purchase!
What is a Portrait Box?
A Portrait Box is a way for your family to tell more of its beautiful story through your photography studio portraits. You can order one or more of our high-quality boxes to store extra double-sided professional prints. The boxes have a magnetic closure. All of our Portrait Boxes are made of a high-quality and very sturdy, wood construction. They’re designed to last a lifetime if properly maintained and kept out of direct sunlight.
How do you use a Portrait Box?
The well-made box will have one of your selected portraits on its cover, and inside you can store your other sturdy, styrene-mounted photos from your session. What better way to continue to share your family’s story than through more of your lovely portraits?
You can leave your additional images in the protective, but decorative box. You also can display the images by rotating them on an easel beside the box. read more…
How do I know my portraits will represent my personal style? | Northern VA Family Photographer
Your portraits will indeed represent not just your style, but you and your family as well. How do we know this? Because this isn’t OUR portrait! It’s YOUR portrait! As a professional photographer, Ever After is simply the conduit for your wonderful and precious portraits.
It’s our job as an experienced, professional photographer to convey you and your story through the portraits we capture for you. We don’t do it alone. We do it with you, our client, after much deliberation, discussion, and thought.
In the Lansdowne, VA area, we are the team people seek out. Why? Because we’ve built a reputation on our ability to reflect our clients’ lives so well. Professional pictures are more than a snapshot. We put a lot of time and thought into your portraits from the moment you contact us.
As a professional photographer, we are truly (and happily) invested in the outcome of your personal portraits! We want to get to know you before your portrait session is even held, get to know how you live, your style, and your home decor. Your home reflects your personal style, and we will have the opportunity to see it for ourselves through iPhone pictures you send us of your walls. We love seeing pictures of our clients in their own homes because it really says a lot about who they are and what they like – as well as what they are like! We know how important these portraits are to our clients, and we take that very seriously. In fact, the iPhone pictures you send us aid us in creating the perfect wall art for your home, and allow us to show you your family artwork on your very own walls!
Rest assured that your portraits will reflect your personal style. Also, together we’ll discuss your ideas for your portrait, colors, clothes, setting, etc. read more…
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…