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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.
Save Your Precious Family Portraits | Northern VA Family Photographer
As a family photographer located in Sterling, VA, in Northern VA, we specialize in portrait 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 family photography.
Do you have a CD of family photos in a drawer somewhere in your home? Have you ever even printed any photos from that CD? Unfortunately, as is often the case when you have photographs taken and you’re given a CD, those images never see the light of day.
Consider this, too: If you hunt out that CD, will anything on it be recoverable? Such media has a shelf life and can be affected by heat and cold. Sometimes nothing can be recovered. So what is the very best way for you to start saving your precious family portraits?
Keeping alive precious memories
The solution to preserving your priceless family portraits is to have them professionally created, made into archival quality art, and to display them on the walls of your home. At Ever After, our heirloom artwork and products are rated to last over 150 years, and are printed on archival paper or other medium, with archival inks.
The true value of beautiful family portraits is beyond measure. You will enjoy that portrait every day as you walk by it. Your children will undoubtedly see the genuine heartfelt love you have for them, large as life, every time they look up at those portraits. You’ll remember the joy and fun you had with your family while your portrait session was taking place, watching as your children played and just enjoyed time with the family. Such memories are truly priceless.
Which would you rather have?
How Family Portraits Make Your Family Feel Cherished | Northern VA Family Photographer
As an experienced portrait photography studio in the Sterling, VA area, Ever After Portraits knows how much you cherish your family. We’ve worked with families for almost two decades now. The families that reach out to us want to capture their family’s love and bonds through fine art portraits. But, they don’t want just any pictures. They want portraits which are beautiful and poignant enough to instantly become cherished family heirlooms.
If you too want to document your family in this manner, you can contact our studios to schedule a family portrait session. As fine art photography specialists, we believe that this type of photography is one of the most powerful ways to demonstrate your family’s love. It transcends the quality of normal photographs to something more like art you can prominently display and cherish for decades. (All our portraits are printed on photography paper rated to last 100+ years.)
Family Portraits as Art
If you would like to decorate your walls, it’s well worth considering family portraits instead of traditional pieces of inexpensive, generic artwork. Keep in mind that fine art family portraits are a powerful and personal form of art! There is nothing more special or more deserving of wall space than your family’s portraits. If that sounds like a tempting thought, read on to learn the multiple reasons why you should hire a professional photographer to take family portraits that will take pride of place on your walls!
Family Portraits Make Your Family Feel Cherished
Our portrait photography studio can capture your family’s love for each other in family portraits. Here’s how those family portraits make your family feel cherished.
1. We can capture a special moment in time.
Time flies in the blink of an eye, and before you know it, your children will be grown and taller than you! Then, they’ll be off to start their own lives, and you will wonder where the time went. If you’d love to capture a piece of your children’s childhood in a family portrait, it’s well worth choosing a family photographer from a professional portrait photography studio. The day will soon come when your adult children tell you how grateful they are that you had professional portraits taken during their childhood. It is a legacy we can help you create to be enjoyed for many years to come!
2. Your children will feel special seeing their portraits on the walls of their family home.
As parents, we’ve all witnessed our children’s pride when we display one of their drawings. Modest as those drawings might be, they pull at our heartstrings, and we cherish them as our own “Picassos.” Displaying professional images of your children is no different. It evokes in both you and them a deep feeling of pride and love. Everyone who visits your home will see your family portraits. And, your child will feel very special each time they pass by those images. They will know that you cherish them enough to invest in, and display, portraits of them. Better yet, those images reinforce to your children that they are part of a close-knit family unit which means the world to each other.
3. Family portraits have a far higher, more personal value than traditional art.
Though all art has its own value, would you rather look at a landscape painting of a lake or a field of flowers every day, or look at the smiling faces of your family members, especially your children? You might tire one day of looking at the same landscape day in day out. But there’s no chance that you will ever tire of looking at a beautiful family portrait taken by a professional portrait photography studio! In years to come, your children’s children will value those portraits far more than you can imagine today. The love we captured in those images will be carried through to the next generations, giving those portraits a unique, more personal value than ordinary artwork.
4. Displaying a family portrait is a lovely way to showcase your family to your guests.
Guests to your home, including extended family members and friends, will naturally gravitate to a large portrait of your family. Think back to the last time you saw a beautiful family portrait in a friend’s home. What was your reaction? Most of us are instinctively drawn to those portraits because, if they are well done, they offer a glimpse of or a personal reflection of that family’s bonds. The portraits can serve as an excellent showcase for those who visit the home.
The Role of a Portrait Photography Studio
Before you hire any portrait photography studio, you should keep in mind their actual role in creating your family portraits. They should be able to accurately capture and reflect the individuality of each family member in a family portrait. After all, no two people are alike, and it is the individual personality traits which come together to form a family. The studio you select should have experience working with family groups as well as individuals. We certainly have that experience, which is why we’re able to work with families so well and capture their personalities on camera and in print.
Experience with Children
If your family includes young children, then you should work with a portrait photography studio that has a lot of experience working with children. It takes creative thinking, patience, and expertise to photograph children, particularly when they’re part of a group. We know just how to “distract” children so we can get the right images. While family portraits are commissioned by, and taken for, the adults in the family, these portraits are in large part for the children one day. They will feel loved and cherished by seeing themselves displayed in your home. One day, when they have those same portraits displayed in their own homes years from now, they will still feel your love each time they are reminded of you because of those portraits.
So what are you waiting for?!
If you’re keen to display family art on the walls of your home, it’s definitely worth getting a family portrait commissioned. Not only will a portrait decorate a room, but it will also ensure that your family members feel loved and cherished!
You can contact our portrait photography studio in the Sterling, VA area to schedule your family’s professional portraits. We work with families all across Northern Virginia.
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Portrait Photography Studio
Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy and Joriana Belcher, a mother-daughter photography team, with a portrait photography studio located in Sterling, VA, in Northern Virginia. They specialize in timeless and emotive fine art images.
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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Family Togetherness Through Fine Art Portrait Photography | Sterling VA Family Photographer
We specialize in the art of portrait photography. As a family photographer in Sterling, VA, we understand how very much fine family portraits mean to our clients. Through fine art photography, we capture the loving bonds shared in families.
The value of portraiture as a central part of a family’s home décor is well recognized today. A great family portrait is achieved through planning and attention to detail. The care and attention to color, coordination of clothing, setting of the portrait, all the way through to the correct framing is part of the customized service we provide to our clients.
Family photography is a valued art form
Whether classic or modern and contemporary, whether in color or black and white, Ever After’s fine art photography creates more than just a simple portrait. Your family portrait will, without a doubt, become a cherished possession for many years to come and through generations of your family.
The immense value of photography goes far beyond creating memories and decorating your home, however. Psychologists in recent times have come to recognize the importance of displaying a family’s togetherness. For children in particular, the benefits of being constantly reminded of the love shared in the family and of the feeling of “belonging” has a profound impact on their emotional stability. Displaying family portraits prominently in your home is invaluable in strengthening that familial feeling of security and being loved.
At Ever After, we capture that special togetherness of your family in our indoor studio with our Today’s Classics portraits, as well as in our outdoor portrait park.
Share the Love In Your Home with Fine Art Photography
When decorating your home with fine art wall portraits from Ever After, you will have several options.
We offer a fantastic line of wall art products, including two framed lines, Masterpiece and Standard, as well as four frameless lines, Bamboo, Gallery Wrap , Ice, and Steel. With the addition of beautiful family portraits, your home decor will take on a warm and artistic quality uniquely created for you.
From a small wall in your hallway . . .
. . . to a major feature wall . . .
. . . we will create lifetime masterpieces of your family, portraits which will truly be treasured for generations to come.
Family Portrait Session, Larry, Amy, Maddie and Kacie | Sterling Family Photographer
Most people searching for a family photographer search out photography websites so they can see family images and get an idea of the photographer’s style. As a portrait photography studio located in Sterling, VA in Northern Virginia, we have the privilege of photographing wonderful families. The Hall Family was no exception!
Family Portrait Session
When Amy contacted us regarding a family portrait session, she mentioned how Maddie and Kacie were adults now, one already at college and one on her way to college. As Amy explained, they had been meaning to have family portraits for a while, but time just got away from them. She wanted a family portrait now with all four of them together before even more time passed.
The last time they had family portraits, they were in a studio and very formal. Amy wanted something different this time, something outdoors, more relaxed, portraits which showed the family as they are without so much formality. With our 2.5-acre outdoor portrait park, we were more than happy to honor Amy’s request!