Senior Model Highlight: Week 3

The last two weeks we’ve shown models from LHS and CHS, so this time we’re highlighting Sarah Chellew from Benton High School. Due to some rainy weather we got stuck indoors, but that didn’t stop us from getting some amazing images.

Business Portrait Special

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1. You have a wide range of portrait appointment times
2. It’s fast and easy, you select your image immediately after the session
3. You receive a photo CD complete with a high res, full color image, Black and White image and low res color web sized image for internet usage.
4. Includes a copyright release to print your images anywhere and anytime you need them

So don’t delay, call today and receive an additional $10 off our already low $69 price. This is a limited time offer, offer expires August 31, 2009

Family Portrait Special

Why not have a family portrait taken at specially reduced prices?

J. McBee Portrait Gallery is offering family portraits (indoor or outdoor) at specailly reduced prices. We have set aside a couple of Saturday’s for family portraits and we wanted our valued clients to be aware of this special offer.

We’ve put together some great low price offerings for our limited edition sessions. Each session will last only 15 minutes and we can create any number of groupings (mother and dad, mother and kids, kids individually, etc.) during that time limitation. It is for immediate family only (mom, dad, kids, spouses) due to time limitations.

Photographs can be taken indoors or outdoors (call for appointment times) on one of two dates. You can select your own background from the locations we offer and you will be presented with a set of previews in about a week. Packages start at just $99.

There are no session fees, we do ask for a $99 fee to hold your reservation and it all applies to your order of portrait images. Contact us today to make your appointment for this once a year special.

2010 spa Model

I’ve been talking to a few seniors about a great opportunity for some students in our area. Our business is a member of “spa” (senior portrait artists) and each year they sponsor a “spa Model” program. Seniors in the class of 2010 who are photographed by sponsoring studio’s can enter the competition to become a “spa Model”.

We’ve had a number of seniors this year that I think would be excellent models for this program. As a member, I have been to several of the spa events and they are great learning and idea sharing opportunities. The seniors have a lot of fun and get to model for some of the best photographers in the nation. This year we’ll be in San Diego in a 5 star hotel by the beach.

You have to be photographed by a participating studio who is a member of spa. You then submit a composite card of images we create for you. The entry fee is $100 and you are then judged for your photographic ability as well as things like personality, versatility in your looks, attitude, etc.

If you are selected you are flown to San Diego for our annual meeting. You get to serve with other winners as a model for the best senior photographers in the nation. Some former models have went on to professional careers. At the end you participate in a runway / photo shoot with everyone in attendance, lights, music, camera’s, the works.

Check out www.spamodels.com website that will show you some of last year’s winners and give you a little more info or you can contact us at jack@jmcbee.com or give us a call at 816.364.6454

Senior Model Highlight: Week 2

Our Senior Model for this week is Baleigh McCrary from Lafayette High School. She is so much fun to work with and we’ve created some outstanding images for her. We began with some new locations and ideas. Even though lighting conditions and weather (it was very hot) weren’t in our favor the results just blew us away and we will definitely be revisiting some of these areas for ALL our seniors this year. Leave a comment and let us know what you all think. We want to know how we can give you the images you deserve.

Baliegh is one of our 2010 Senior Models from Lafayette this year. Her and Angela Moore (we’ll post some of her session later) have bonus cards they can present to you. When you turn them in you receive a bonus for having us capture your senior images this year.

Apple Blossom Contestent Winners

We’re one of the sponsors for the St. Joseph Apple Blossom Pagent. We’ve had the pleasure of photographing all of the contestants for newspaper publication and the winners for the complimentary wall portrait we provide to the contest.

Here are the winners from this year’s contest. They will also be displayed at the pageant next year.

Queen – Morgan Koch

Junior Queen – Blayre Helm

Princess – Kaycia Williamson

2009 Readers Choice Awards

I want to thank all of our clients for voting us the “Gold Award” for “Favorite Photography Studio”, in the St. Joseph News Press, 2009 Readers Choice suvey. In addition, we have been awarded the Platinum award for winning the Gold for 5 consecutive years.

I really appreciate the vote of confidence that our clients have placed in us. I’m very fortunate to be in this profession. I get to create really fun and different images of great looking subjects all day.

I’m continuing to improve our photography styles by attending seminars and studying with some of the best photographers in the field of portraiture. This is such an exciting time to be a photographer. With digital, you are really like an artist with a canvas, you use light to capture mood and expression and then you can add another layer of creativity with photoshop. It’s really fun!

New Heartland Display Prints

We have just completed a new set of display prints for the new Heartland Hospital OB unit. We’ve had a fun time creating some new images for display and we’re still looking for new subjects. If you know someone who has a newborn (2 weeks to 1 year), have them contact us.

I’m really interested in very young newborns (age 2 to 4 weeks). I want to try some great new image styles and we need some really young babies to photograph. We’ll focus mainly on the baby but, I would love to add a few of mom or mom and dad as well.

How many poses did you get?

This is a recent session from Brittney (Central Senior). We captured both indoor and outdoor images on one of our cooler days in early June. I really like location work and we used several locations to capture just the right look.

We’ve done some comparisons and, we’ve found that image for image you get the best value with J. McBee Portrait Gallery. One thing to look at is how many poses and how much time you receive with each session. Session by session, you get the right number of  images with J. McBee.

You come in for a photo session. You want to have variety and you want to have fun. If you don’t get enough to pick from and you feel cheated. On the other hand, if someone has to take 200 just to get a few good ones, then it’s poor value and a long day. You have to spend weeks pouring over them just to find a couple you like.

At J.McBee, you receive the right number of images that provide great variety with the correct number of images to select from. With sessions that range from 25 to as many as 90 images, you can feel confident that you’ll have the right number and the best images from the best portrait studio in the area. That’s great value.

Great Photo Weather!

Hey seniors, yea you from the class of 2010, that’s right you’re seniors now. I know that school is just out (or nearly so) but, don’t forget to plan for your senior photo session this summer.

Check out our web site information button. It lists the best time’s to have senior photo’s taken and this is one of them. This is without a doubt some of the best weather of the year for senior portraits. The day’s are cool, no high heat or humidity and the greens of outdoor areas will never be better.

Don’t wait because the summer heat is just around the corner. Call us today to set up your portrait time while there are some great photo times and great savings.