Getting The Look

15th Street Photography™

California Senior Portraits & Women's Headshots

Hair and Make Up Artists

We have a team of trusted professional hair and makeup artists we can hire for your photo shoot to give you the full experience including airbrush makeup, lashes, up-do, beach waves, braids, real flower crowns, etc. Or if you're an artist-in-the-making and want to do your own, that's great, too!

Posing

We specialize in helping you pose in the most flattering way, choosing the best light, best lens, and best plan for your unique features & body type! We have examples to show you, guiding you throughout the photo shoot. Your poses will never be 'cheesy' or look forced.

Imperfections

Imperfections are what make you wonderfully unique! Look at all the movie stars and they all have some quirky features that when added all together result in their overall million dollar look. Unfortunately, many women have insecurities about specific features or body issues, focusing on the particular feature and not on the overall wonderful person that they are. Even those who appear to others as being "perfect" can relate. Even your photographer and makeup artist can relate. We are, after all, women :) We will do our best to show you how beautiful you are, just as you are TODAY. Sure, maybe you want to lose or gain a few pounds, clear up a skin blemish, minimize an overly large or small feature, etc. - you can feel secure in discussing all of this with us! But you are who you are today, and that is something to be grateful for and to celebrate daily! To live happily in your own skin as you are today with full gratitude is a wonderful thing. That is our hope for all of our clients. We will listen to any concerns you may have and will address them by using the appropriate posing, lighting, and lenses. Our team of women understands you & your concerns! We will talk frankly about your concerns, and we'll work with you to show your 'best side' and to make the absolute best of what you've got! We'll show you how others see you, which is based on the confidence and love that you exude, and not on the specific pounds or whatever you might see with a self-critical lens. We want you to fall in love with your portraits and with yourself, and see the true beauty that your friends and family see in you every time they look at you!

Expert Retouching

We carefully edit each portrait to minimize things that are not part of your normal everyday self, like an acne flare up or such. If there's a visible scar, etc. we will talk about it and hear from you if you'd like to keep it for your portrait (after all, it is part of your history and who you are!) or if you prefer to have it minimized or removed because you feel it's not a true representation of you. We don't over-smooth the skin or do garish edits. We maintain pore quality and basic body shapes and features as they exist (always offering a little 'help' with certain issues when requested), and only do natural, professional & realistic retouching that brings out your best features. You're lucky to have a degree'd artist with expert level Photoshop skills working on your portraits. This is much different than the friend or new photographer who "has a nice camera and has photoshop" :)

Timing

We spend the time necessary to capture your true personality. We spend the hours to collaborate on a perfect location and 'look' for you. We block out either the entire morning or the entire evening and take whatever time is needed.

Every senior or personal branding portrait photo shoot is custom, and every outcome is just as unique as YOU.

That's the way it should be. Minimal props. Nothing contrived. Uniquely styled or all natural. Beautifully stunning either way.