Wednesday, June 8, 2011

High Concept Day - Vintage Saloon Girl

Carrie Grant Photography is partnering with a licensed cosmetologist to offer Glamour Portrait & Vintage Boudoir photo shoots.  We will be featuring High Concept Day shoots every couple months, each with a different theme, costumes, sets, and props.  With having a Make-Up Artist and Stylist on site, we will offer an experience you can't find anywhere else on the coast!

Our first High Concept Day will be a Vintage Saloon Girl theme.  Have you always wanted to dress up as a Saloon Girl and just didn't have the opportunity or means?   Well, we have the time, the place and the ability to make you a Saloon Girl like you've never seen before.  This is not just a Vintage Portrait Session in the studio, this will be a closed set, by appointment only, where we do high quality hair & make-up, dress you in an authentic costume, and create the most amazing portraits you could ever imagine.  You will feel as tho you belong on a magazine cover!

We are providing the corsets, skirts or pantaloons (if you want to wear something on bottom), fishnet stockings, feather boas, hair feathers, chokers, gloves, fans, etc.  You bring your own underwear, strapless bra (for those that would like the extra support), and shoes/boots (if you would like them showing in the portraits).  We will also have a variety of set props depending on the look you prefer, such as: guns, whips, whiskey bottles and shot glasses, velvet blankets & fancy pillows, saddle, wagon wheel, etc.  Feel free to bring any props or costume accessories with you to make your photo shoot even more personal and unique.

Your Vintage Saloon Girl photos will make incredible gifts for a husband, boyfriend, or fiance...or enlarge and frame them for yourself to grace your bedroom wall to remind you how beautiful, feminine and sexy you are.

For our first High Concept Day we are offering a "Half-off" Introduction Special.  The price will be $100.  $50 is required to secure your slot as a non-refundable deposit, then bring the remaining $50 on shoot day in cash.  This breaks up the cost and makes it easier for everyone to afford a shoot!  Approximately 2 weeks after the shoot, you will receive fully edited high resolution digital images on a CD with a print release so you can make prints in the amount and sizes that you want.

To secure your slot, email us at carriegrantphotography@gmail.com and choose at least 2 time slots.  We will fill them first come first served.  We expect to book up fast, due to the high interest we have already received, so email us as soon as you can! 

The times are:
Saturdays - July 9th & 16th
10:00 AM
12:00 PM
2:00 PM
4:00 PM
6:00 PM

Sundays -  July 10th & 17th
2:00 PM
4:00 PM
6:00 PM

Some ideas for future High Concept Days include: Santa Baby - Christmas Pinups, Sweet Tarts - Valentine's Day Pinups, Calendar Girl Pinups, Burlesque, 1920's Flapper, 50's Housewives, Scarlett O'Hara, Marie Antoinette, King Henry's Wives, Bad Alice in Wonderland, etc.  And of course as I find props that we just can't live without, the list will expand and we could have some very creative shoots!

Here are some examples of High Concept Days from a photographer friend of mine in Texas:









































Monday, May 2, 2011

Fay's Prom Glamour / Trash the Dress Session #1

Yesterday was a perfect Sunday.  It was warm and sunny, virtually no wind on our notoriously windy Oregon Coast, Church was uplifting, and then I had a wonderful photo shoot with Fay, a local High School Junior who has been doing such an excellent job planning next week's Prom.  Fay bought a prom dress a couple years ago that she never got to wear, and since she bought a new one for this year's Prom, we decided to do a Trash the Dress session so she could at least get some fun photos with the dress she never got to wear.  Here is a preview of yesterday's session down at Battle Rock Beach.

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Weddings, Engagement Photos, After Wedding High Fashion Portraits (Trash the Dress / Rock the Frock), Senior Pics, Family and Individual Portraits, Babies, Pets, Landscape and Nature Photography. I also do Portrait Parties and Fundraisers!

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