Battle Ground Senior Portraits

My last senior portrait session of the season, well past the end of the regular season. This was a Battle Ground high school student who wanted something a bit more special, a bit different from what all her friends were getting. I was glad to oblige her.

Battle Ground Senior Portrait on Jungle Gym

The first spot I found at the school that I liked was this Jungle Gym. The sky was a dull cloudy gray, so I knew I would be using some camera trickery to color shift it blue. It turned out to be a really neat look with the dark blue sky and dark blue bars working together. The pop of yellow added some fun, and she just had to turn on her smile and be adorable.

Battle Ground Senior Portrait at Football Field

We then walked a bit over to the nearby school football field. Their team was running some drills, but we did some stuff at the edge of it anyway. To give her something a bit different, I kept the blue colorshift on the sky, but reduced the blue saturation in post making for a sort of fake selective color effect. Dragging the shutter blurred the background a bit making it feel almost like a ‘memory of highschool past’ that she can look back on in a decade or more. Selective color is easily over done and can go cliche really fast, but I like it here.

Black and White Senior Portrait at Battle Ground

It started raining a bit and the sky was getting much darker. We had a bit of time left on the session before her dad showed up to pick her up, so we went under some of the covered pathways of the school. I was able to ramp up the power on the lights and did something a little more dramatic. Shot it black and white for even more drama. It gave her a nice variety to chose from, and both she and her dad were mucho happy.

As this girl showed, just because deadlines are over or summer hasn’t started, it’s never too early or late to start thinking about senior portraits. And if you want something cool, fun, and different, give me a call!