What are candid family portraits? | Northern VA Family Photographer

Name: Ever After Portraits
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Candid family photos have become very popular, but what exactly is a candid photo and why is it popular? Candid pictures capture their subjects looking relaxed and natural when the subject least expects it. That can make it a challenge, of course, for a portrait photographer during a portrait session. However, our Lowes Island, VA, and Reston, VA clients wanting candid portraits turn to us for our skill and experience with these types of family pictures.

Any photographer can orchestrate a photo session, but only a good one with a keen eye will capture a candid moment between the subjects. The opportunity to obtain that kind of shot is why we love these types of candids! Candid photo ops keep us on our toes as professionals.

Through our years in professional photography, we have developed a keen eye to see candid moments, patience to wait for the perfect moment, and the skills to know just when to snap the shot. So how do we do it?

We don’t just schedule a portrait session and ask you to show up. At a minimum, we will have a phone discussion with a client to understand why they are commissioning a portrait and what their plans are for the portrait. We’re also happy to help a client decide where and how to best display it in their home thanks to our interior design software for photography.

We want our clients to feel comfortable and ready for their session. That comes with good, open communication between our studio and the client. It’s far more likely that we can capture a candid moment if family members are interacting comfortably with each other. Stiffly posed and staged pictures where everyone sits pristinely alongside each other staring at the camera aren’t just outdated; they’re boring. We don’t do boring!

People love to see themselves naturally portrayed, which is why candid portraits have become so popular. Candid portraits tend to best capture the essence of its subject.

If you would like to hire a top-notch professional photography studio in the Lowes Island, VA area for your candid family photos, you should contact us. Our years of experience make the experience enjoyable and productive – not to mention the results are always great!

Family Photographer, Family Photos

Ever After Portraits is Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Lowes Island, 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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OPEN FOR BOOKING! Fall Family Portraits Calendar | Northern VA Family Photographer

Reston, Virginia and its area residents are enjoying these lazy days of summer. Most of us are either busy enjoying summer activities or simply enjoying the time to do nothing much! However, summer provides an excellent opportunity to start thinking about booking your autumn family pictures. We have begun booking appointments for September, October, and November, and we recommend you book as far ahead as you can. Together, we can create your dream family portraits!

When the weather begins to transition in a few months, and the bright colors of summer slowly give way to the richness of fall, our outdoor portrait park practically beckons. Just as nature offers an authentic background, our portrait park offers the perfect location for precious family pictures.

Our portrait studio offers our clients far more than just an outdoor space. We offer you the opportunity to enhance upon nature’s offerings with our park’s features and/or props. You can add depth and interest to your portraits with a rustic wooden bridge and pier; a wooden-post fence; an old barn; one of our two ponds; or one of our elegant antique sofas!

We encourage our clients to let their personalities shine through in their portraits. We ask them to work with us to create a stunning portrait honestly reflective of their family. We know when we have achieved that because our clients are thrilled with the results. They see their family’s love captured ever so perfectly in a portrait, and we can see the pride in their faces when we reveal their finished product.

If you would like to schedule fall family pictures for your family, please contact our portrait studio to schedule an appointment. There are only a limited number of days available this fall for portraits, and our fall calendar has a way of booking up fast!

Autumn Family Portraiture

WHEN: September, October, November 2016

WHERE: Our Outdoor Portrait Park in Sterling, VA

WHY: Because time moves so fast — photography stops it!

If you live in the Northern Virginia or surrounding areas, including Reston, Virginia, and would like to schedule or speak to us about your fall family pictures, please contact us. We are always happy to speak to past, current, and new clients!

Family Photographer; Family Pictures

Ever After Portraits is comprised of Mindy and Joriana, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Reston, 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

At what ages should your children be photographed? | Northern VA Family Photographer

Professional photography is an investment and as photographers for more than a decade in the Reston, VA area, we obviously understand this. So, here’s an insider’s secret for you: You don’t have to invest in childrens photography each year! This is why we offer our clients a recommended schedule of ideal times to take professional portraits of your children.

We have written in previous blog posts that by investing regularly in professional portraits of your children, you can create a visual timeline of their childhood. Pictures allow you to document their endearing changes and stages beginning as early as days after birth. You may chart their growth in inches on a wall or door frame in your home. You also may chart their growth through pictures!

The question most parents ask us is: “How often should our child be professionally photographed?” Here’s our answer:

There are five stages of a child’s life. Within those stages, there are ideal ages to capture with fine art photography. Capture those sequentially and you have that timeline we just referred to above.

The five stages and approximate ages to photograph:

* Baby: newborn, three months, six months, nine months, twelve months
* Toddler: eighteen months, two years, three years
* Childhood: four years, five years, seven years
* Youth: ten years and twelve years
* Young Adult: sixteen years and eighteen years

It’s entirely up to you how many times you do professional portraits of your children! You can do all of these, a few of these, or even add more portraits. Questions? Call us! We are happy to answer your questions.

We can also talk about portrait styles for the ages and what is the best style or composition. Given the spread in ages, what works well for a toddler will most likely not be appropriate for a sixteen-year-old! If you would like to take one portrait per stage, we can suggest what might be the best age within each stage for your child’s professional portrait. It could vary from child to child depending on their development.

Childrens photography is exciting and personally rewarding for us. Contact us if you live in the Reston, VA, Northern VA or surrounding area to discuss your children’s professional portraits. You have our commitment to provide you with a stellar customer experience along with beautifully composed pictures to last a lifetime!

Family Photographer, Childrens Photography

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

Wall Art Collection, Davis Family | Northern VA Family Photographer

It wasn’t that long ago that we profiled our client Detra Davis and her two adorable children. We thought you would enjoy a follow-up to that post. A Northern Virginia mother of two children, Detra understands the value of investing in professional family photography, including childrens photography, and quality, fine art products. Once her session was completed, she opted for a wall collection of portraits and selected one of our favorite products: Our Fine Art Giclee Ice Finish! The results were just stunning.

Our Ice frameless finish is one of the preferred products for clients’ portraits, and it’s the one we used for our own family portraits. It’s a stunning frameless option and a more modern take on portraits. It’s an unusual, but visually striking way to display your professional photography. We love how well it captures details and colors! It’s only one of an array of excellent products we offer our clients to help them display memories and enjoy them for many years to come.

Detra’s family portraits with their colorful, warm images were perfect for an Ice presentation. She chose wisely and beautifully. The portraits appear to be floating, captured on what appears like ice or glass. The effect is almost ethereal. The colors remain vibrant and crisp even though the technique is opaque. Like all the products we offer, it is museum quality and elegantly finished. You can’t go wrong with this wall art product. It blends seamlessly into any decor, even traditional. In modern or transitional decor, it shines!

If you are interested in children’s photography with a Reston, VA area photographer specializing in fine art portraiture, contact us today. We would enjoy speaking to you about our work and introducing you to our other fine-quality products! We are committed to working closely with you throughout your entire process and addressing your questions.

Family Photographer, Childrens Photography

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

Why Quality Framing Matters | Northern VA Family Photographer

People invest in family photography for many reasons, but it’s usually driven by how much they love their families. Portraits and what they represent are very important to them so it’s also important to ensure they’re properly framed. With clients in the Herndon, VA area and throughout Northern VA, we are fortunate to have developed relationships with some of the best framers in the industry. The correct framing will not only protect your gorgeous portraits; it “finishes” the portrait and enhances its beauty.

The “Right” Framer

When it comes to frames, you have options. With our assistance in the studio at your ordering session, you will have the opportunity to select from high-quality frames from skilled framers. When you work with Ever After and choose a framed Wall Art finish, your family portraits will be fully framed and finished for you, ready to be displayed on the walls of your home.

Skilled framers not only offer more framing options; they also know to use the right materials to protect your precious portraits. Frames with filler boards use only special paperboards to ensure they don’t cause your images to fade or yellow. It’s these kinds of details that can make a difference in how your family photos looks in 50 years.

Our framers have all been carefully selected for their expertise, experience, and knowledge of high-quality products.

The Best Frame for Your Portraits

Frames have two purposes: To display and protect your portrait. They come in a variety of materials including wood and metal. The frame itself can be considered a decorative item and enhancement for the imnage. Whatever frame you select for your family photos, it is important that the materials are appropriate for the portrait, sturdy enough to carry the weight of the canvas, and made of high-quality materials. A good frame is sturdy and well built and should reliably hold the canvas and all of the frame pieces.

As most frames are made of wood or metal, it’s good to keep in mind that certain metals might corrode, causing damage to the portrait, while wood frames could potentially give off harmful chemicals. That is why it is so very important to select only the highest quality frames for your professionally photographed family portraits. Although we print all of our portraits on archival-quality materials, framing does make a difference over the years. Ready-made mass produced frames are rarely meant for long term protection and display. Our frames are of the highest quality and are custom made to order for each portrait.

We understand how important and cherished your family photography is to you. As an Ever After client, we will walk you through the frame selection process. We use special design software to show you how your portraits will look on your walls, including the frame, and discuss the available options with you.

We have two high quality lines of framing: Masterpiece and Standard. We invite you to follow the link and find out more about them.

As family photographers, we work across Northern Virginia including Herndon, VA.

Family Photography

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

A Family Affair, David & Tara | Northern VA Family Photographer

One of the greatest privileges as a human being is to live a long, healthy and happy life. Through the years, however, we slowly begin to outgrow our recollections. It’s a natural progression of aging. As a studio photographer in the Herndon, VA and Great Falls, VA area, we know how valuable portraits can be in the future. Professional pictures provide tangible, visual evidence of our lives, love, and happiness; they can frame the timelines of life. In many ways, this is what we have done with David and Tara. To say they are regular clients would be an understatement – and, we are so happy that it is!

We first met this beautiful couple when they asked us to do professional portraits for their engagement and wedding. That was the beginning of a years-long relationship with them. From their engagement portraits, we went on to do their wedding, maternity, and newborn/baby portraits for their two beautiful children.

In all, we did Bebe Coterie baby plans for each of their children, and a beautifully dramatic maternity session for Tara’s first pregnancy.

Maternity and Baby Portraits

We first photographed son JD while he was still in his mother’s tummy, then again at 3-months, 6-months, 10-months, and as a one-year-old.

Once his sister Sebbie came along, we did her first portrait as a newborn, 3-months, 8-months, and one year old. It’s a lot of fun for us watching these babies grow!

Our Outdoor Portrait Park

We have had the privilege of watching this young couple marry, blossom, and then grow into a loving and beautiful family! What a special time we have had with them, and we look forward to many more portraits in the future! As we have said in the past, there is no greater compliment for a portrait photographer than clients returning through the years.

We truly delight in working closely with clients to capture their milestones through fine art photography, creating portraits they will cherish for decades. We believe in getting to know our clients and in working closely with them. Call us today if you are looking for a skilled and dedicated photography team!

Family Photographer, Studio Photographer

Ever After Portraits is Mindy Belcher and Joriana Belcher Anderson, a mother-daughter portrait photography team located near Herndon, VA and Great Falls, VA. As a studio photographer, 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