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Destination Laguna Beach for High School Senior Portraits

Orange County High School Seniors often want to book their session in a field or at a cool city background. Since Orange County beaches are in our backyard, it doesn’t seem as special of a location for a session. But graduates from out of state dream of having their session at one of our spectacular beach locations. Whether they book at Table Rock Beach, The Montage Resort Beach or Picnic beach, the background never disappoints.

Isabella’s Mom booked a last minute beach session while visiting Laguna Beach. She grew up in Orange County and then moved across the country to New York. This session was so special because most of their family vacations are spent in Laguna Beach or Newport Beach. I love that Isabella wanted to keep it really natural and organic. Here are some of my favorites from her session.

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Blue Sky’s Studio is a family, high School senior and branding photography studio that specializes in magazine quality photography in Orange County, California. Kristin loves photographing Orange County families, high School seniors and Orange County businesses including corporate headshots. To schedule a session with Blue Sky’s Studio, in Laguna Beach or other Orange County surrounding areas, you can send an email to Kristin@blueskysstudio.com. We are now booking for the Fall Portrait session 2020. We are taking special precautions because of Covid-19 to ensure that you are safe and healthy.

Blue Sky’s Studio specializes in photographing on location in the following areas, Laguna Beach, Irvine, Newport Coast, Newport Beach, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel, San Clemente, Coto De Caza, Dana Point, The Ritz Carlton, The Montage Resort, the Surf and Sand resort and the Monarch Beach Resort.

Heisler Park High School Senior Portraits

Heisler Park and Picnic Beach Senior Portrait Session

Heisler Park is located on a gorgeous bluff overlooking picnic beach. It is a perfect location for a High School Senior portrait session. Orange County high school seniors always want a lot of variety in the background. Since this park in Laguna Beach has both lush foliage and wide beaches it has the perfect variety. With amazing vistas, gorgeous rock formations and long sandy stretches of beach your high school senior will get a variety of looks without having to go very far.

A few weeks ago I photographed the beautiful Alyssa both at Heisler Park and at the beach. I just love Alyssa’s style and her big beautiful eyes. The last session we celebrated with their family was 8th grade graduation, so seeing her change and grow into such a confident adult made my heart happy. Here are just a few of my favorite images from her session.

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Blue Sky’s Studio is a family, high School senior and branding photography studio that specializes in magazine quality photography in Orange County, California. Kristin loves photographing Orange County families, high School seniors and Orange County businesses including corporate headshots. To schedule a session with Blue Sky’s Studio, in Laguna Beach or other Orange County surrounding areas, you can send an email to Kristin@blueskysstudio.com. We are now booking for the Fall Portrait session 2020. We are taking special precautions because of Covid-19 to ensure that you are safe and healthy.

Blue Sky’s Studio specializes in photographing on location in the following areas, Laguna Beach, Irvine, Newport Coast, Newport Beach, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Niguel, San Clemente, Coto De Caza, Dana Point, The Ritz Carlton, The Montage Resort, the Surf and Sand resort and the Monarch Beach Resort.

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Anna’s Senior Portrait Session: Santa Ana Art District

You may be asking yourself, what is a senior portrait session all about, and how is it different that plain old school portraits?

Unlike a traditional senior session where you get one image of your kid smiling at the camera, we want to tell a story with an entire collection of images that is personalized to your son or daughter.

Why should you spend the time to do a custom senior portrait session?

There are a handful of events growing up that are milestones and will be remembered for a lifetime. Birth, starting to walk and talk, starting school, turning 16 and graduating from High School. Graduation marks the end of childhood and the beginning of a new journey. As parents, this time is bittersweet. We have done our job and raised our kids to go out into the world and start their own personal journey. But it is a little sad knowing that we will no longer see our kids everyday. High school senior portraits help commemorate who your kids are, where your kids have been and where they are going.

The best senior portraits start with the following:

Getting to know your senior and their style. The images I take should be a reflection of their personalities and capture what makes your senior unique.
Helping you select the best Orange County photography location to represent that style. Urban, Organic, coastal, rustic, etc.
My team will help you put together 3-4 outfits that will look amazing whichever Orange County portrait location you choose.
For the gals- we finish off with professional hair and makeup, that is natural and looks great in photographs.
For the guys, we will help with grooming, and styling so all of the images look natural.
At the session, I will give posing direction so that all the images look relaxed and candid and show your senior having fun.
Finally, we invite your family back to our studio 10 days after the session, to have a custom reveal session of all of the images. We will help you design a custom album, an image box or art for your wall.

Here is Anna’s senior session in the art district in Santa Ana. Congratulations Anna on being a Husky next year! Go University of Washington!

I hope you enjoyed the beautiful downtown art district Santa Ana senior pic session featuring Anna. Contact Blue Sky’s studio for more information on pricing and availability. I would love to show you my Laguna Beach photography studio and show you our custom designed albums, reveal boxes and canvas and metal wall art. Be sure to check out my blog to see more senior sessions.

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Giveaway time for Senior Pics

Giveaway Time: OC Senior Pics

Celebrate your senior year with amazing High School Senior pictures, at absolutely no cost to you! It is giveaway time! Each year at Blue Sky’s Studio, we plan a fun, creative styled photography session focused on that year’s graduating class. For the class of 2020, we are looking to do both senior pics for guys and senior pics for girls at the fabulous Japanese Gardens in Long Beach.

For our High school senior picture giveaway you will get:

A fully styled senior session with at least three different outfit changes during your session
For the Gals: professional makeup and hair styling services
For the guys, help with grooming and wardrobe
10 custom 8×10 mats with your favorite images from the session
A custom produced slideshow of the session

Total Value of the giveaway: $2299.00

We are giving away 3 senior pics for girls sessions and 2 senior pics for guys sessions. All entries must be received by February 10th.

To enter to win a session, just click here to fill out the entry form.

Here are some of our favorite images from last year’s session:

At the Beach, At the Park, Blue Sky's Promotions, Family Photography, Senior Photography

The Five best spots to photograph around Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach has the very best spots for unique family and senior photography. Since I not only work in Laguna Beach, but also live in the downtown area, I am always keeping my eyes open for the most unique spots to photograph high school seniors and families. Here are just a few of my favorite spots in the downtown area to get amazing, unique shots of your senior or family. And if you book and shoot before the end of September, you will receive 50% off of the session fee.

Heisler Park/ Picnic Beach Area

From beautiful vistas, to unique art pieces, to garden spots and yes even a sandy beach, if you are looking for a lot of variety in your portrait session, Heisler Park is my top choice. Check out a few of my favorite recent images shot in this location.

Downtown Laguna Beach

In just a three or four block area, there are so many great backdrop choices in downtown Laguna Beach. Some of my favorite spots include the red phone booth, the alley behind the Presbyterian Church, the area around the library, the flower stand on Forest Avenue and the rose garden on Forest.

Laguna Beach Neighborhoods

Around the Laguna Beach High School area is a perfect location to shoot a senior portrait session or even a family session. There are some really cool green areas, lots of trees, two small parks and lots of hardscaping with texture and character. Even more important to me and my clients, there is a lot of parking. Here are some of my favorite spots in the neighborhoods surrounding Laguna Beach High School.

Main Beach Laguna Beach

Try to avoid main beach on the weekends, but during the week, especially in the Fall, this is an amazing backdrop for a session. You have the iconic Lifeguard tower, the fun boardwalk, the rocks at the north end of the beach and the open sandy views of the south end of the beach.

Portrait by Brianna Caster and Co of my kids

Alta Laguna Beach and Laguna Canyon Areas

For a more organic background, Laguna Beach has Alta Laguna Park and the open canyon space. This year, with the super bloom, we have been so fortunate to not only get tall grass and open fields, but lots and lots of yellow flowers. Here are just a few examples of the variety of locations in the canyon and at Alta Laguna Park.

Now is the perfect time to book your session. We are office 50% off of the session fee in September as our early bird special. To book your session or to get more information, click here.