Client Spotlight - Jenny Kemp Watson
The heart of my shoots are to create a safe place for my clients to feel seen, heard and beautiful. We are multifaceted people and have different aspects of ourselves. Some we show to people and some we do not. And some we don’t even see in ourselves but others do. It is my job to bring it all out, capture and show it back to you.
Jenny is from my home town. It was such an honor to reconnect with her; to hold space for her to be vulnerable and reconnect with herself.
5 Reasons You Need a Personal Branding Session
Personal Branding sessions are a more elaborate headshot session with multiple looks for the various platforms where your brand or personal brand is represented. It comes down to what do you want people to think, see and feel when they look at your image: power, approachability, confidence, leadership, or all of the above. It comes down to what do you want your pictures to say about you in your branding.
LadyLike Leaders Summit: Recap
Earlier this month I had the honor of speaking at the Lady Like Leaders Women’s Symposium,
Lady Up + Don’t Quit.
If you weren't able to attend, I'd still love the chance to share the highlights from my talk. Enjoy!
Different Portrait Types & When To Use Them
Portraits have several categories. The most common ones are weddings & birthdays or event photography, family photos, and headshot. But there is so much more the world of photography. My studio, Judith Hill Photography, is a studio that is centered on lifting people up, celebrating achievements, building confidence, treasuring life.
Here are 4 different portrait types and opportunities on when to use each type.
How to Capture the Best Dating App Profile Pictures
If you’re uncertain about dating online, trust me, I was a little reluctant as well. Dating is an initial or start of having a sturdy relationship. There are many reasons that dating site helps every user in different ways. The usage of the site sometimes depends on the perception of people who use it.
Despite, here are 4 things to consider when you put yourself out into the world of online dating.
Rachel's Story of Transformation
Today, I wanted to share Rachel’s story. I asked her to write a blog about our time together and why it was important to her to create art and capture all the different facets of herself in a portrait session. Her story is painfully beautiful.
Posing Tips & Tricks: Finding Your Best Angles
You are beautiful, claim it! But, we all had someone sneak a photo that captures a weird expression, or catches us at an unflattering angle. Worry not, this guide is designed to give you confidence in front of any camera, and to help you feel beautiful in every photo from now on – no matter where you are, how made up you are or who is taking the photo. Use these tips whenever a camera is pointed your way!
3 Reasons to Photograph Life Transitions
Promotions, divorce, weight loss, starting a new career path, reinventing yourself, reaching milestones—are you sensing a theme?
Yes, transitions! So many of my clients come to me in periods of transition and it has me thinking. What about transitions is so powerful to us? Why are we so compelled to invest in documenting these moments? I’ve had the opportunity to witness so many beautiful moments in my studio simply by listening to my clients’ stories. From these stories, I’ve come up with 3 possible reasons we are so compelled to photograph life’s transitions.
How I do a Family Shoot
People often ask me if I photograph families. Yes, absolutely I do. I just handle it a little differently. I am always grateful that I get to meet and photograph wonderful families. I get the chance to know them individually and how their relationship with each other, which is a privilege to be able to capture lovely moments together and dynamic images.
Seeing Your Beauty
At my core, my passion is transformation and empowerment. It is the ability to see others’ beauty and strength then bring it out and capture it. Through a single photoshoot, a woman can be introduced and sometimes reconnected to something she did not know existed within her. Bringing that forward and capturing it on paper is the greatest gift I can give a person.
My mission in life is clear - to lift others up through photography. Photography is the medium; the purpose goes deeper than snapping a photograph.
How do you Hustle?
“I will be at the top because I hustle. Ain’t nothing going to stop me because I hustle.”
So the question is, how do you Hustle?
What to wear on your Photoshoot
So, what do I wear for my photoshoot?
I get this question all the time. This is one of the reasons that I do wardrobe consultations before the shoot, and people find it so helpful because generally speaking, they aren’t sure where to start. Also, I want to eliminate as much stress as possible so that you feel confident in what you are wearing for your shoot.
“To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.” -Marc Jacobs
50 and Fabulous Photoshoot
As women, we are always so hard on ourselves so I like to try and turn that conversation around by changing the perspective with photographs and sometimes questions.
There are many reasons to have a photoshoot. One of those is reaching a milestone in life like turning 50. I am not 50 but I've always had close friends quite a bit older than me. One of the reasons is because I've always strived to be wise beyond my years, and I want to learn from them.