Dani

I had the pleasure of photographing Dani for her senior portraits a few weeks ago. We headed out to a few locations and had some fun playing around with the Yellowstone River as a background.

When I first started photographing senior's for their yearbook photo I felt a bit awkward. How do you capture someone's personality in such a short time, make them look lovely and feel at ease? I know LOVE taking senior portraits. I LOVE getting to know the people and finding ways to make their portraits interesting but still enjoyable to them and their parents.

Working with Dani was SO easy. She is such a confident, competent young woman. I love to see someone so secure in who they are and comfortable with the way they look and what they do.
I LOVE her legs by the Yellowstone.

Fortunately for me it was hard NOT to get a good photo of Dani!
I LOVEd the tall grass for her senior photos. I try my best to do as little traveling around but to get as many different compositions and feelings as possible.
I LOVE the photos of her in her blue shirt under the overpass. We had her music playing on my player and we were just finding different compositions that worked well with the blue. Some of the painting were great and others not so much so. In order to make sure the photograph was about her and not the painting I used a very shallow depth of field and tried to use angles that took advantage of the colors but did not highlight the composition of the photo.
Dani,
Thank you for having me photograph you for you senior portraits for Park High School. Keegan told me that you were lovely and she was right.