Senior Style Blog Featured Photographer {Cicero, NY High School Pictures}


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Wow!!  I'm so excited to tell you that today my work is being featured on the Senior Style Blog.  This is such an awesome resource for all high school seniors to gather inspiration for their sessions – everything from clothing to jewelry to prop suggestions and even posing ideas.  This is a MUST SEE for all seniors.  Come on over and check out my high school senior feature with Ashley.

When you are ready to schedule your own senior portrait session, please give me a call or click on the Contact button below.

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Senior portraits with Marisa {Cicero, NY Portrait Photographer}

Marisa came out a few weeks ago for her senior portrait session.  We had a fun time together – listening to music, talking about where she works and what she hopes to do once school is done.

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Her high school recently switched from allowing any type of image in the senior yearbook to the more traditional studio portrait.  So we played with a couple different backdrop colors and a couple different outfits and ultimately decided on the traditional school blue backdrop with a black top she had brought.
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We also did quite a bit of outdoor portraits for the more casual looks her mom had requested.  The barn and split rail fence were especially nice for different posing options. KimHill_CiceroNY-Senior-Photo_Marisa-0862

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Thanks again for coming out, Marisa.  It was great getting to know you and I wish you all the best this year.  Enjoy it!!

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Shoots For a Cure {Syracuse portrait photographer, Kim Hill}

I am pleased to announce that I have partnered with Shoots For a Cure.  This charitable organization is helping cancer survivors and their supporters to celebrate life with charitable photography sessions. Any individual that has been diagnosed with cancer or completed treatment within the past 12 months qualifies for a Shoots for a Cure Session. Sessions are available to document the fight before or during treatment or to celebrate the victory when treatment is completed.ShootsForACure_Logo
Clients will receive a complimentary session, set of ten 4×6 prints, and a 10% discount off additional print orders.

If you know someone who would qualify to participate in the program, please contact me using the links below.

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Senior Pictures with Emily {Syracuse, NY Photographer}

Meet Emily!  She’s a beautiful high school senior who surprised me when she pulled out her acoustic guitar and her lacrosse gear.  I always ask the seniors to bring along these types of things that we can use as props as it really helps to tell the story of their senior year in high school.  Emily was the first teen to actually follow my suggestion and I can’t tell you how excited I was to be able to take some lacrosse pictures and some musical photos of her.  🙂

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Thanks so much for coming out, Emily!!  I wish you the best of luck in your senior year.  🙂

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High School Senior Girl {Teen Portrait Photographer, Cicero, NY}

Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Riley, a high school student, for a combined studio and outdoor session for her senior portraits. I love working with high school seniors – they are so fun and easy-going when it comes to poses.  These were taken on a beautiful early autumn evening, the leaves were just barely beginning to change color and the sunlight filtering through the woods was just beautiful. Here are a few favorite portraits from our time together. 

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Thanks so much for coming over, Riley.  I had a great time getting to know you and wish you the best in your senior year of high school.  🙂

 

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Product Feature: Memory Books {Senior Portrait Photographer, Cicero NY}

I thought I would take a moment to share with you one of my favorite products – memory books (aka coffee table books).

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What makes these different from a traditional photo album is that they are (a) in book format, (b) are a press-printed product, (c) are custom designed with artwork, (d) are personalized with journaling about the subject(s).

Since these are custom designed for each client, no two are ever the same.  However, if you really like one of the sample books I’ve shown here, I would be happy to use that as a basis for creating your own memory book with the addition of some personalization to make it truly unique.

The most popular size is 8×8 inches, but I also offer other sizes from 5×5 up to 12×12.  High school seniors especially like these as I usually leave room for them to write in their own personal memories or even have their friends hand write a note.  It’s a wonderful keepsake that you will cherish for many years to come.

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As you can see, the pages spread across the center seam allowing for full page spreads.  The cover is completely wrapped around from front to back and can be just one image or a fully designed custom cover.  We will work together to decide how you would like your memory book to look in its finished form.

While a traditional album is a collection of images, a memory book is a collection of images PLUS MEMORIES in an artisticly designed format.  High school seniors especially like these as they are so personal to them.  Grandparents will also cherish having a copy for themselves as a keepsake – and when you order more than one of the same book, I will give you a reduced price on the extra copies.  😉

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At your next session, be sure to ask me to show you these samples so that you can really get a feel for the amount of detail that is put into each book.  I’d love to share them with you!

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Summer’s Last Hurrah {Cicero, New York Portrait Photographer}

This weekend, we had one last hurrah before the start of the new school year.  The weather was cool and very windy and it rained a lot today.  But other than that, it was a nice end to summer.  We stayed at my parents' cottage north of here on a small lake…I'm sure I've posted pics from there before.  :)  So the boys enjoyed their usual frog hunting, fishing, and swimming.  We also taught them how to play slap jack. The youngest had trouble remembering what it was called, so we had interesting variations including "flap jack" and "smack jack". LOL

At one point while fishing, hubby told the youngest to "kiss the fish".  And he made that scrunched up "eeewwww" face you see in this upper right photo.  Ha ha ha  And when he was reeling in his next catch he said, "It's a BIG one" while older brother demonstrated and told him to reel faster. The fish was maybe 6 inches long. LOL

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Lots of small perch and sunfish were caught that day…not only with the traditional fishing poles, but also with nets.  The boys swam underwater with their nets in hand and were catching the fish like that.  They called it scuba fishing (but without the scuba gear) – LOL. 

Good fun was had by all.  And now we look forward to the arrival of fall.

 

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Fashion Session with Ashley {Syracuse Portrait Photographer}

This week I had the pleasure of working with Ashley, a local model from my town.  Started out the session at this little spot that I’ve been wanting to shoot at for a while now…it’s a service road that leads to a cell tower.  I love the gate and the overgrown path here.  And her all American girl look really works well with this natural environment.

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Then we hopped in the car and drove over to the abandoned air strip.  We took a few shots along the side of the old airplane hanger…

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and then we braved the debris and ventured inside.  Ashley was such a good sport about standing and sitting on the nasty dirty pile of old tires, rusted parts and old cushions.  I call this one her FIERCE look.  😀

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We wrapped up the evening on the landing strip at sunset.  Just gorgeous!

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Thanks so much for a great evening, Ashley.  Would love to work with you again in the near future.

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Downtown Fashion Shoot – Part 2 {Syracuse fashion photographer}

In addition to working with Lamar and Lakisa last Saturday evening, I also had the opportunity to meet Jessica Riha who is very new to modeling.  She was lots of fun and kept ooohing and ahhhing over the image previews on the back of my camera.  Nothing like hearing, “OMG, you are soooo good!!!” several times to boost the old ego.  LOL  She did a great job and was up for trying anything, including a little run with hop in front of many many local gawkers sitting around the fountain area.  She was such a good sport.

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This was a fun get together and I really look forward to doing something like this again in the future.  Thanks so much, Jessica, for a fab evening.

 

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Fashion shoot with Lamar & Lakisa {CNY portrait photographer, Kim Hill}

Last night, I met up with a local group of models and photographers.  Once everyone arrived, we were paired up with one model each and set off to have a mini session.  In the random drawing, Lamar and I were put together.

My neighboring photographer, Michael, was paired up with Lakisa.  So after I was done with some individuals of Lamar, we took turns shooting the two of them together.  I didn’t actually get a chance to shoot separately with Lakisa, but did snag one while she was busy with Michael.  🙂

Thanks everyone for a fun evening. Looking forward to doing this again.

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