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To Frame or Not to Frame | Northern VA Family Photographer

To Frame or Not to Frame | Northern VA Family Photographer

To Frame or Not to Frame | Northern VA Family Photographer

When it comes to family photography, we know that because you care about your family, you want to make good decisions! There are a few key decisions to be made. The first (and most important) is to decide to have professional portraits done! Once you make that one decision, the next is to select a photographer. If you’re in the Brambleton, VA area and reading this post, we hope it’s us! The third decision, and also important, is to select the portraits you love at your ordering session.

The last decision is whether to frame the portraits or go with a frameless option.

To frame or not to frame – that is the question!

 

 
And, we have your answers on framing. You do not have to frame if you don’t want to! Nothing in portrait photography says you must frame your portraits! This is why we offer four frameless options in addition to our two framing options. All six wall art finishes are high-quality, beautiful options when it comes to display as well as preserving/protecting your photographs.

Studio photographers know that formal, framed portraits aren’t for everyone. One of our  frameless options is likely to be more your style if you don’t like frames.

Frameless Options

We offer Gallery Wrap, Steel, Ice, and Bamboo as frameless finishes for your wall art portraits. Each brings their own merits and style. If it’s at all difficult to choose, it’s because they’re each so extraordinary!

Our Fine Art Gallery Wraps look like a canvas portrait except it is printed on archival, museum-quality canvas with the portrait wrapping around the edge. There is no need for a frame, and this is a great option for a grouping of portraits.

Our Fine Art Giclée Bamboo offers two museum-quality mediums in a 100% earth-friendly, green product. Your portraits are printed onto bamboo using archival, water-based inks.

Ice Wall Art is for the discerning client wanting a contemporary and unique way to display their portraits. It’s non-breakable and face mounted. Once printed, the image becomes opaque and highlights the vibrant colors and detail.

Steel Wall Art is one of our personal favorites. It is clean and contemporary. You can choose either a matte finish or a glossy vibrant finish for a bolder statement. Steel Art provides a modern and edgy look.
 

 
Lastly, if you want to show off your family’s beautiful portraits in yet more ways than on a wall, we offer several Boutique Luxury Products for our clients.  Album and Portrait Boxes are wonderful ways to continue telling your story. After all, you can’t put every single family portrait you love from your session on your walls! All of our products are worthy investments to preserve and display your portraits for generations!

If you’d like to see samples of your many wall art option finishes for your portraits, you are welcome to contact our office near Brambleton, VA to schedule an appointment to see our samples. We love family photography, and we love the products we offer for our clients! We think you will as well.

 

Family Photographer, Family Photography

Ever After is Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Brambleton, 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

Customized Wall Decor for Your Home | Northern VA Family Photographer

Customized Wall Decor for Your Home | Northern VA Family Photographer

Customized Wall Decor for Your Home | Northern VA Family Photographer

Ever After is a mother and daughter team of portrait photographers. As a family photographer, we are committed to creating the best family photo possible for you! Our clients hail from across Virginia, including Brambleton, VA.

Using your family’s portraits to decorate and personalize your home makes a bold statement about what is most important to you. It conveys to family members and guests alike just how much pride and love you have for your family. Whether you choose one family photo or a collection, you can count on us as your family photographer. We’ll talk you through the process from beginning to end. When the session is complete and your portraits are on your walls, we know you will loving looking back on how much fun you had!

In days gone by, only the wealthiest of families could afford to commission an artist to create a portrait of the family. Today, however, creating beautiful photography as art to decorate your home is attainable for nearly anyone. At Ever After, we have software that can show you how your portrait in any size will look on a wall in your home. We will provide you with a link to our “Let’s Decorate” ruler. You then tape the ruler to the wall where you would like to display your family portrait and take a couple of smart phone pictures of the wall from a few steps back, while including some of the design elements of the room such as the sofa, drapes and floor.
 

 
You send those pictures to us, and we import them into our design software. We can then show you exactly how a portrait or a wall grouping would look on your wall, and what the best size of the portrait should be given that space. In addition to the size of the portrait, we can show you how the portrait would look in different frames, and even frameless. After your session and your images are added, you’ll even be able to see how the colors in the portrait will complement your décor! You can see an example of how this works below as well as on our home page.
 

 
It’s as easy as that to decorate your home with your beautiful new portraits! Thanks to advances in technology being a family photographer today allows us to be better engaged with our clients throughout the entire process.

We offer a wonderful line of wall art products, including two framed lines, Masterpiece and Standard, as well as four frameless lines, Bamboo, Gallery Wrap, Ice, and Steel. The Wall Art design you choose will be uniquely created for your home and family.

Your family photo or photos will shine with one of our frames! If you live near the Brambleton, VA area or anywhere in the Northern Virginia area, give us a call to help capture your best in one of our photos!

 

Family Photographer, Family Photo

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter family photography team located in Northern Virginia, near Brambleton, VA. 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

Family Portraits, Nick & Allyson | Northern VA Family Photographer

Family Portraits, Nick & Allyson | Northern VA Family Photographer

Family Portraits, Nick & Allyson | Northern VA Family Photographer

As a studio specializing in family photography and located in the Northern Virginia area (near Brambleton, VA), we often find that clients who love their families simply want beautiful family portraits.

Allyson came to us after winning an Ever After gift certificate for a portrait session in a special promotion. She looked through our website and liked our family photography, so her thought was to use the gift certificate for a family portrait set outdoors in our portrait park.

Family of Four Portrait Session

This charming family of four, which included four-year-old and two-year-old little boys Alex and Aidan, wanted portraits in our outdoor portrait park. Allyson shared with us during her client chat that her sweet boys are best friends and that when they are very excited, they rub their hands together. She hoped that our portraits could capture their special brotherly friendship. Of course, we would do our best to capture their friendship! We were so glad she shared that important and personal tidbit to give us some background.

We loved that although Alex is a little shy at first, once he warms up, he loves to laugh and be silly. And his love of superheroes is one we share! Little Aidan is outgoing and more talkative, with a love of cars, trucks, and helicopters. And we all know superheroes and automobiles go together like PB&J!

Allyson also mentioned that she wanted shots that showed her, Nick and the boys interacting candidly as well as more camera-aware, or looking at the camera as shown in their portrait here.

Our family portraits are about the love a family shares and their interactions with each other and as a family. After all, that is what makes portrait photography unique and so rewarding to the photographer as well as the client. We were able to make sure we spent time photographing both boys together in addition to the entire family.

Outdoor Portrait Park

This fun-loving and playful family was so easy to photograph! They enjoyed our very special and very natural portrait photography studio! We’re pretty sure they enjoyed their photo session as well. Our outdoor portrait park is the perfect setting for a family with young children. The children (and usually the parents as well) love being outdoors with our tree-lined pond, rustic wooden bridge, and pier. It’s an idyllic location!

We also learned that Allyson shared something in common with us: our philosophy as photographers! She, too, believes that family art is timeless and reflects great memories for the future. She was excited about their new portraits and hoped to display them in their home’s entry hallway where visitors could see them.

If you’ve looked through other photography websites, landed on ours, and appreciate what you see in our gallery of special family photography portraits, we hope you will connect with us as photographers in the Brambleton, VA area and throughout Northern Virginia for your next family portraits. We love to get to know our clients and we always do a pre-photo session chat with them to know more about them. This helps us set up the best photo session for them like we did with The Renzella Family.

 

Family Photography

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter family photography team located near Brambleton, 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

Image of the Week | Daddy & Me | Northern VA Family Photographer | Ever After Portraits

Image of the Week | Daddy & Me | Northern VA Family Photographer | Ever After Portraits

Image of the Week | Daddy & Me | Northern VA Family Photographer | Ever After Portraits

Our image of the week is of daddy and child. A family photo such as this becomes precious to the whole family. As a family photographer with a portrait photography studio in Northern VA, located near Brambleton, VA, we understand the pressures Dad faces regarding work and supporting his family. Sometimes you’re so busy supporting your family, you just don’t seem to have time to spend with them! That’s one of the reasons we have a special Limited Edition Session set aside especially for fathers and children.

Our Daddy & Me session lets you enjoy time with your child while we’re capturing those precious memories for all time. This year, this session is being held on Monday, May 30, 2016. We chose that date since it’s a federal holiday, in the hopes that Dad will have the day off.

Mom, this would make a wonderful gift to Dad, as well as one you’ll love!

Contact us to schedule your session today by following this link, or call the studio at 571.434.0009.
 

 

Family Photographer, Family Photo

Ever After Portraits is Mindy Belcher and daughter Joriana Belcher Anderson, a family photography team located near Brambleton, VA in Northern Virginia. At our portrait photography studio 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

Tip 9, Understand Your Photographer: Don’t invite them expecting free photos | Northern VA Family Photographer

Tip 9, Understand Your Photographer: Don’t invite them expecting free photos | Northern VA Family Photographer

Tip 9, Understand Your Photographer: Don’t invite them expecting free photos | Northern VA Family Photographer

We are continuing our blog series “How to Understand and Work With Your Photographer Friends,” and we’re on Tip #9: Don’t invite your photographer friends expecting free photos. This can be another touchy issue among photographers and their friends. We have built a reputation throughout Brambleton, VA and surrounding towns for warm, candid and timeless family photography. We invest a lot of time and energy into planning each photo session and giving our clients their ideal portraits.

Beyond our clients, we have personally invested a lot into photography as our livelihood. How could we not, when we love doing portrait photography so much? However, we do like to have a personal life as well! We can’t imagine being invited to a big anniversary bash as guests only to arrive and have the host ask us why we didn’t bring our camera equipment! It might sound a bit farfetched to you, but many photographers will say it’s happened to them at some point in their careers and probably several times.

Keep Friendship and Business Separate

Don’t invite a photographer friend to your event simply because you expect (hope) they’ll photograph your event for free! If you want to keep a friend, then don’t expect free work. Don’t invite a professional photographer friend as a guest expecting them to work the event. How can they enjoy the event as your guest if they’re working it?!

If you love your friend’s work, then hire them! It’s the greatest compliment you can give them. Keep in mind, though, that when a photographer is shooting an event, they’re not a guest. They’re not enjoying the event like a guest because you’re very focused on their work.

We’re always available to be your guest or be your photographer! We love both, and we especially love family photography in the Brambleton, VA and surrounding towns.

 

Family Photography

Ever After Portraits is Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Brambleton, VA in Northern Virginia, specializing 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

Family Portraits, Chris, Stephanie & Roland | Northern VA Family Photographer

Family Portraits, Chris, Stephanie & Roland | Northern VA Family Photographer

Family Portraits, Chris, Stephanie & Roland | Northern VA Family Photographer

At six-months old, Roland was too young to understand his mother’s motives for a family photo session. However, love was her motive! Stephanie Johnson wanted family portraits taken so that one day her son could see just how much his parents loved him. It was that love that motivated Stephanie to contact us. And according to Stephanie, it was our website’s fine art photography taken across the Northern Virginia area (including Broadlands, VA and Broad Run Farms, VA) that convinced her to trust us with her family’s portraits.

Autumn Family Portrait Session

A good photograph doesn’t just mirror the subject, it captures the subject. You should be able to look at a good photograph and “see” an emotion. When you look at the Johnson’s portrait, eyes are drawn to little Roland’s relaxed posture in his father Chris’s loving arms, his little baby toes, and his cherub cheeks and smile! You can just imagine what it feels like to hold that baby. The photograph evokes that emotion.
 

 
It turned out that Roland was a bubbly little guy, and the very definition of adorable. He made the perfect model. His mom wanted candid pictures of their family interacting and, with him as the star, it wasn’t difficult to do.
 

Outdoor Portrait Park

 
Candid family portraits are popular! Many of our families request candid (or more casual) pictures. They don’t want formal poses. They want us to capture the spirit of their family’s love as they interact in front of the camera while not looking too “posed.”

In her pre-photo session chat Stephanie was asked what she most wanted captured in their portraits. Her answer? She wanted the pictures to convey how happy they are as a family, “what goofballs we are and just how adorable and beautiful Roland is!”
 

 

As Broadlands, VA & Broad Run Farms, VA photographers, we enjoy fine art photography as much as we enjoy our meeting new families and taking family portraits. We feel honored to be entrusted with something as precious as a family photo to be displayed and cherished for many years. Thank you!

 

Family Photographer, Fine Art Photography

Ever After is comprised of Mindy Belcher and her daughter Joriana Belcher Anderson, a family photography team located near Broadlands, VA and Broad Run Farms, 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