I’ve worked with the Willis family for quite some time now. I began working along side Liz Willis quite literally at O’Toole’s in Queensbury last summer. Ever since I’ve done about 4 photoshoots with their family, starting with fall mini shoots, a family session, photos for their youngest, Wyatt’s 1st birthday, and now photos for their oldest, Cole. I’ve gotten to know Cole a little bit before his senior shoot through doing their family photos. Like many teenage boys, he wasn’t the most thrilled about getting photos done, but his senior shoot was kind of a different story. Since it was more of a one on one setting, besides having my assistant there, it was way more laid back and there was definitely less pressure. Senior shoots are my favorite for that reason because you have a good chunk of time, and there is a lot of creative freedom. It also allows the senior and I to become very comfortable with each other and for them to be even more comfortable in front of the camera.

For Cole’s shoot, we went to downtown Glens Falls, NY. The weather was absolutely perfect. If I had a dime for the amount of times I said, “wow, look at the sky,” you would probably only have about 50 cents, but that’s still a good amount of times to be saying that in an hour. The sunset was incredible, and it was the first golden hour shoot that i’ve done where the sun was out in a very long time, so I was excited. I was super happy to capture Cole’s personally in many of the shots, even though he wasn’t the easiest person to get a real smile out of (which made it even more rewarding when he did smile genuinely). Even in the posing; I tried posing him myself for some of the first few shots, but as time went on he naturally did some perfectly on his own. Cole also is one of the few guys I’ve seen pull off the color yellow so well. It tied in perfectly with the warm lighting and made the shots THAT much better. Over all I’m very excited with how the photos came out, and I’m ready for many more shoots to come this senior season!