After school, evenings, and Saturdays

Lots of people call the studio assuming that we have strange or really short hours, or assuming that they won’t be able to get in.  Not so fast!  We do lots of appointments after school hours, and while our official business hours are until 5:30 Tuesday-Thursday and until 5:00 on Fridays, we do evening and Saturday appointments by request.  Don’t put off calling because you assume we won’t be able to fit you into our schedule!  We do our best to be as accommodating as possible.  Call!  (260) 482-2660

Summer’s passing so quickly…!

SENIORS…I hate to remind you, but school starts in 5 WEEKS!  (Terrible, I know…or awesome, depending on how eager you are to be done with this high school business.)

So what does that mean?  It means that you need to be thinking about your senior pictures!  You’re tan, relaxed, happy not being in school, and your schedule is probably not as chaotic as it is during the year (if it is, I feel for you).  We still have plenty of appointments for the summer, but as each day passes we have fewer and fewer, so you should call now! 

(260) 482-2660

Scheduling a Senior Session: Times

Generally, our time slots we use for seniors–especially during the summer–are 9:30 or 10:00 AM, 2:00 PM, and 4:00 PM.  We frequently get calls from seniors who want a 12:00 or 1:00 appointment because they don’t want to get up early (they don’t always tell us that…but we’ve been doing this for a looonnng time!  We know!).  BUT, we don’t select those times arbitrarily.  Here are some things to think about:

Between about 11:30 AM and 2:00 PM, the sun is peaking and its light is harsh.  Contrary to popular belief, glaring bright sunlight is not the ideal light for portraits, particularly when it’s coming from directly above you: skin–especially light skin–gets blown out, you have a tendency to squint, and harsh light from above can produce some not-so-flattering shadows.  Plus, in the summer the morning times are much cooler.  It’s hard to stand out in bright sun and sweltering weather trying to look good for pictures (and its not all that  comfortable for the photographer, either).  Girls’ makeup also tends to look freshest in the morning.

Later in the afternoon you’ll also have better light and perhaps milder temperatures.  Particularly later in the summer and early in the fall, our 4:00 appointments can get some really beautiful light.

As I mentioned above, we do have a 2:00 appointment, so we’re not discouraging you from taking that one.  We do have some canopies to help us out if the sun is bright and the day is hot.  We also try to do outdoor pictures toward the end of the appointment, unless our schedule or client requires otherwise, closer to 3:00 or 3:30.

Of course, we will do everything we can to accommodate your scheduling needs, whether you need one of our three main senior times or you need something totally different.

Call the studio if you want to set something up or have questions at (260) 482-2660, or you can email Marta at marta@michaels-photography.com