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! (more…)
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 (more…)
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!”
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Ever After is a portrait photography studio, located in Sterling, VA. Our photographers specialize in family photography.
Portraits have a very long and storied past, both in human history and the world of art. For thousands of years, man has captured the likeness of others to honor and/or remember them. In the United States, the White House served as a portrait gallery of famous men and women. One of the earliest uses of portraits as dining room decor dates to 1809 when President and Mrs. Madison moved into the White House. Mrs. Madison converted part of Thomas Jefferson’s private office into both an art gallery as well as a dining room. On its west wall, she hung the famed Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington. Today, that space is known as the State Dining Room where portraits still hang elegantly on its walls as witnesses to history.
Fine family portrait photography has become what painted portraits once were: an elegant and enduring way of honoring, commemorating, and capturing the images of loved ones. Portraits can be used elegantly as works of art enhancing your home, including your dining room.
Family Portrait Photography Studio
A talented photographer can produce portraits worthy of being called art, and worthy of being displayed prominently just as painted portraits once were. It is important to use a reputable portrait photography professional to capture the best possible family portraits. Fine portrait photography is simply not the same as department store family portrait photography. Fine family portraits are elegant, beautiful, and breathtaking – whether they are in color or black and white. A good portrait photography studio can capture family portraits worthy of display.
Professional Family Portraits as Art
Professionally and properly-mounted fine portrait photography can blend seamlessly into any room’s style. The portraits can be used as focal points or as design features as part of the overall design scheme. You can easily (more…)
As a professional photographer located near McLean 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 are both an indoor and outdoor studio photographer.
Family Portraits as Wall Art in Your Home Entryway
Imagine opening your front door to friends and family. Would you rather the first thing they see as they enter your home be a landscape or a gorgeous display of your family in portraits? Family portraits as wall art give you the perfect opportunity to show anyone who visits your home how very much your family loves each other.
Whether your entryway opens up to stairs or a hallway, a series of family portraits is a beautiful centerpiece to your home.
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Ever After Portraits is a family photographer located near Ashburn, VA, in Northern Virginia. As family portrait photographers, we create beautiful portraits of the ones you cherish, your precious family.
Many of us use stairs every day, multiple times a day, more times that we care to think about. We go up and down without really thinking about it.
Make your stairway more than just a means to get between floors; make it a (more…)
