Senior Pictures & Portrait Photography
I create relaxed, natural senior pictures throughout Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham and Metro Detroit, with sessions designed around each senior’s personality and style.
Whether you’re looking for classic portraits, an urban setting, natural outdoor photographs or something a little different, we’ll create a session that feels like you — with plenty of guidance along the way.
Cranbrook Student Photographed On Campus.
Senior Pictures That Feel Like You
Your senior pictures should reflect who you are — not look like everyone else’s.
We’ll plan your session around your personality, style and interests, choosing locations and outfits that create the look you want. That might mean classic portraits at Cranbrook, an urban session in Birmingham or Detroit, a natural outdoor setting, or a combination of different looks.
You don’t need to know how to pose or what to do in front of the camera. I’ll guide you throughout the session while keeping things relaxed and natural.
Sessions can include:
- Multiple outfits and looks
- One or more carefully chosen locations
- Posing and expression guidance
- Professional editing and retouching
- Yearbook image preparation when needed
- Private online gallery
A Relaxed, Guided Experience
You don’t need any experience in front of the camera. I’ll help with posing, expression and small adjustments throughout the session, while still keeping the photographs natural and comfortable.
Before your session, we’ll also talk through clothing, locations and the overall style you’re looking for, so you arrive knowing what to expect.
Senior portrait in downtown Birmingham, MI.
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Senior Picture Locations Around Metro Detroit
The right location can completely change the feel of your senior pictures. We can choose a setting that fits your personality and the style you want — from classic architecture and gardens to downtown streets, parks and natural settings.
Some favorite senior portrait locations include:
Cranbrook Gardens — classic architecture, gardens and natural scenery
Downtown Birmingham — an urban look with plenty of variety within a short walk
Detroit — architecture, city streets and more contemporary backgrounds
Local parks and natural settings — relaxed portraits with greenery and softer backgrounds
I photograph senior sessions throughout Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, Troy, Rochester, Royal Oak and across Metro Detroit.
Celebrating milestones in style. Senior graduation portraits taken in historic Franklin Village, MI.
How Your Senior Session Works.
1. Plan Your Session
We’ll talk about the look you want, locations, outfits and anything you’d like to incorporate.
2. Enjoy the Shoot
I’ll guide you throughout the session with posing and expression while keeping everything relaxed and natural.
3. Choose Your Favorites
You’ll be able to review your photographs and select the images you love.
4. Finished Photographs
Your selected images are professionally edited and retouched, with high-resolution files delivered through a private online gallery.
What’s Your Style?
Senior pictures don’t have to follow one particular look. Your session can be classic and polished, relaxed and natural, urban and contemporary — or a mixture of styles.
Clothing, locations and even small details such as a favorite jacket, musical instrument or sports gear can help make the session more personal. We’ll talk about what you like beforehand and build the session around you, rather than trying to fit you into a formula.
Not sure what would work? That’s completely fine. I’ll help with location and clothing ideas as we plan your session.
Serving Birmingham, Troy, Bloomfield Township, West Bloomfield, Farmington Hills,
Royal Oak, Livonia, Metro Detroit, Auburn Hills, & All Of Oakland County.
Stand Out with Composite Sports Portraits.
Want something beyond the standard senior photo? Composite portraits blend studio-quality lighting with dramatic backgrounds—perfect for athletes who want to be seen as fierce, focused, and unforgettable. These aren’t just pictures. They’re posters. Museum-quality keepsakes that look like they belong on a stadium jumbotron or magazine cover.
⚡ Great for football, soccer, and other varsity sports
🖼️ Custom-designed with bold, cinematic backdrops
💥 Made to impress—on walls, in yearbooks, and online
Ask about adding a senior composite portrait to your senior session.
Senior Portraits FAQ’s
What Will I Wear To My Senior Portraits Shoot?
Senior photographer logic goes out of the window on this one! With a standard portrait bright or garish colors would normally be avoided, but for senior portraits, everything goes. We are capturing who you are, in this moment of your life.
The best advice is to bring along everything that you could possibly want to wear. If we are doing a studio session there will be changing facilities. If it is on location, available restrooms work, even a car can be pressed into service for a quick change.
What Makes You Feel Beautiful, Or Handsome?
Whatever those clothes are, that’s what you want to wear in your pictures. These are pictures that you want to feel great in, and that will affect how you feel when you view them. So the clothes you love to wear, need to be in your pictures. The photography will turn out better.
Gradually Dress Down.
Start with the dressier outfit. It’s better to have to pull on a pair of jeans in the middle of a senior portraits session than to be climbing into a dress or pants. Start dressed, and work towards casual.
One thing you absolutely should do – it’s bring your favorite outfit or item. That thing that you feel great wearing? Bring it. Despite my years of experience as a senior photographer, I’m still amazed at the wardrobe people can show up with. It’s totally cool.
What About Hair And Makeup?
For boys, if you are getting a haircut, make sure to have it done at least a couple of days before your session. Newly cut hair looks .. well, newly cut. It will be obvious.
Girls, as with the boys, don’t have your hair cut on the day of your session. You can obviously have it styled, and that really can make a huge difference to your images.
Makeup will look heavier in camera, so it’s best to tone it down a little from the level you ultimately want. A natural style of makeup will usually be the best fit, but again, rules are made to be broken. So if you want to go a little crazy…
Should I Get A Manicure?
It’s a great idea for your pictures, yes, you should. Since your hands will be in many of the pictures, a manicure is a good idea.
A word of warning about waxing. If you intend to get your eyebrows waxed, or any other wax treatments, do it at least a week before your session. Your skin needs time to recover, you don’t want to have areas glowing red in your pictures.
The same thing goes with tanning, don’t do it close to your session. As always, a photographer is a great source of advice on these matters.
Do I Need Props For My Photos?
You don’t absolutely need props, but like tons of clothes, they are useful to have around. Hat’s scarves, canes, a boa, musical instruments, items from your hobby, and anything that screams who you are should be with us at your session. If you don’t want to bring anything – that’s cool. As any senior photographer will tell you, more is better. I have never done a senior shoot where I thought I needed less stuff. More stuff, more photography, more pictures.
What Should I Expect From My Photographer?
The first thing you should expect from your photographer is professionalism. I think that being respectful and obeying social boundaries is crucial. Personally, I will never walk up to a client and touch them in any way. If some hair is out of place, I ask them to fix it. The same with clothing.
My preference is that you bring someone with you for your photography shoot. They will offer moral support, and be on hand to help with any hair or clothing adjustments, and it’s just a more sensible approach to take in our current world.
Senior Pictures Checklist
1. Pre Session Consultation.
Let’s have a conversation about your clothes, style, colors, etc.
2. Professional Makeup.
Girls, this will make a serious difference to the results of your session
3. The Photo Shoot.
Typically, a senior portrait session lasts 1 – 2 hours and sometimes can be even more.
4. Editing & Retouching.
This is where a lot of the work is done, highly polishing your final images.
5. Choosing & Ordering.
Here we view your images and help you with the image selection process.
6. Your Product Delivery.
Take delivery of your beautiful senior portraits. Digital files are sent through email, physical products must be picked up.
7. Online Gallery.
An online gallery will be created so that you can send family and friends to view your entire image collection.
A Senior Photographer Should Always Be On Hand.
This is a big deal, getting senior pictures taken is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. So you can contact me at any time before, during, or after your senior photography session if you need advice.
Want some ideas or info? Have a look at these sample poses.
Some pages that may be of interest.
