Getting creative with your senior pictures

For senior portraits, we will often do some artwork or fun effects on a few of your proofs.  We might give you some images in black and white, maybe sepia, maybe some other tones.  Any of those, of course, may be ordered in normal color with or without the effects.  But remember that we can ALSO put ANYTHING into black and white, sepia, and other tones.  Sometimes, by thinking outside the box a little and getting creative, you can stumble across a gem.  Take Emily, an ‘09 senior at Central Noble who came in yesterday to place her order.  She had a list of images that were in color in her proof book that she wanted to see black and white.  One was normal color taken outside, gorgeous just the way it was, but when we converted it, suddenly we had a striking, classic black-and-white image before our eyes:

 

Then there was an image we’d given her in both regular color and with high contrast.  She had the great idea to convert it, and again we had an entirely different look:

  

Now, I’m not saying you should come in asking to see every image every different way (please).  But alterations like this are super-easy ones that can make a dramatic difference.  One of our 2008 seniors, Jessica of Concordia Lutheran High School, did this same thing, and the image ended up being a favorite that got chosen as the face of her graduation open house invitations:

 

A small change can open up a whole new world!