I am a Portrait Photographer.

My focus is working with entrepreneurs to create portfolios of images to be used across all marketing platforms: press, social media, websites, blogs, author portraits, actor portraits, speaking engagements, you name it. It is pure joy for me to work with you and succeed in achieving portraits that show your superb self in a genuine way. The result: authentic, stunning portraits to be used as an essential tool in advancing your dream career.

Celebrating You,
Jenn
My mission is to inspire by shining a light on people through art.
Jennifer(at)JennKL.com

My profile portrait on the right by Courtney Lindberg Photography

Aug 25 2010

What should I wear for my portrait session?

This is always one of the first questions asked when someone books a portrait session. What should I wear? My recommendation is to always dress in whatever makes you feel fabulous and represents you and your individual style best. Whether it’s for individual portraits, family portraits or business headshots…wear what you like. What you feel great in. Period.

If it is a family portrait session, complimentary colors are nice…say burgundy, navy blue, deep green, browns…have fun and mix and match. Solid colors are always a good choice, clean and simple. I am a big fan of lots of color, the more expressive the better.

You don’t always have to be matchy-match. But, if you do choose to match, try and be creative and have the textures and styles be different.

A good thing to avoid… stripes, busy patterns and logos. You want the focus to be you and if you’re wearing some busy pattern it draws the attention away from you. Stripes sometimes cause a weird blurring effect, slight aberration. And logos are simply an unnecessary distraction.

What is your favorite style to wear? What is your favorite color to wear?

Below are some portraits of what I think are great examples of clothing for a portrait session…

An example of nice, complimentary colors, but still representing their own individual style from a recent engagement session.

I love this, everyone is wearing something completely different and I think it really shows their different personalities during a recent newborn and family portrait session.

Sweet that mother and baby are dressed in pure white.

Like I mentioned above, I love color and think it really makes a portrait stand out, especially for business portraits like below. Plus it’s great for the energy and skin tone of the person in the portrait.

A great example from a recent family portrait session of how to mix textures and styles if you want to wear the same colors. I love the sparkles of the mother’s blouse contrasted with the dad’s button-up dress shirt.