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You Shoot Seniors?? An Introduction to John Pyle, Senior Portrait Photographer

I don’t shoot weddings. I admire wedding photographers, I love their work, and some of my best friends are wedding photographers. I even like to go to weddings and enjoy the celebration…and some cake. Yes, people are always going to get married.. but high school seniors only graduate once.

Grace is a 2011 Senior

For me seniors are what we enjoy. Mostly because they WANT to be photographed. When I first got my DSLR in early 2000s and started shooting events, weddings, parties etc…I learned very quickly what I did NOT enjoy photographing. My favorite quotes during this time include “oh please don’t take my picture”, “I might break your camera” “can you only photograph me from the waist up?” “can you Photoshop out my wrinkles?”, “can you make me look skinny?,” and “do you HAVE to take MY picture?”. And of course the countless number of hands in front of faces, ducking heads, and people running to hide like I was holding a live cobra in my hand. Read More→