While modern photography can be trendy and cool, I try to shy away from some of the extreme effects that some photographers do. This includes textures and such. We love colorful images that tell a story. We often take portraits, too, but we try to keep them so that they will capture the moment, while standing the test of time. It’s funny because wedding dresses AND tuxedo’s REALLY do show the age of images sometimes. For example, strapless dresses are in style now, but they are actually starting to phase out on the West and East Coast (Austin tends to be last in changes of style for wedding attire and wedding photography style).
Olan Mills was a huge portrait studio when I was a kid, and my parents brought me there for portraits when I was a child. Some of my portraits look like these:
Click here to see some really dated portraits.
I wanted to laugh at many of these. I just can’t get over how some of the men who are posed LOOK so feminine because of the pose! Don’t laugh too hard at these – I’m sure that you all some of these in your closet somewhere! My hope is that our portraits don’t look as dated 20-30 years from now as these do.
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One of my friends who lives in Arizona took his daughter (9 months) to Sears for a Christmas portrait. The baby rolled off the posing table and broke her collar bone. The great minds in the Sears PR department called the next day to offer the session at half price. I was amazed and disgusted! If it were me I would do the session for free, pay the doctors bills (that’s why I pay so much for business insurance), and give them free product.