Naperville Senior Photographer, Downers Grove senior photographer

I always love photographing high school seniors.  What is really fun is when I get one, and then she refers a bunch of her friends to me.  I think this is the fourth of a group of friends from Naperville Central High School.  I love it when people refer Firefly Nights Photography to their friends and family – so Thank You!  Now this young man has been a bit of a challenge to actually get in front of the camera.  He is a football player at Naperville Central High School, you see.  We had scheduled his session months in advance, but lo and behold, the Redhawks had a great football season and went into the playoffs…again and again!  So we kept having to push it back until it was early December.  That was fine – he could layer up for his pictures.

We knew we wanted to do some athlete pictures, or Sportraits for him. 😉  We did several, and I created this awesome collage from them.  I really love doing these.  What a great way to commemorate the past four years of hard work and effort.

 

We wanted to do some outdoor pictures.  It was pretty cold, but he and his mom were great sports that morning.

 

I love this picture of him looking so handsome and collegiate with his tie.

 

Speaking of collegiate, we had to get a couple pictures with this T-shirt (yes, he was freezing).

 

Ok, so we need to talk about this kid some more.  When we first met and chatted, I asked what he was into.  The answer – cars.  He LOVES cars.  When I asked what his favorite car was, he told me it was the Porsche 918 Spyder.  I immediately knew I wanted to do something special with him.  First, was to get him that dream car.  Second was to attempt something new for me – a technique called Light Painting.  It took a while to do it – 37 separate images with my light going off in different areas of the empty parking garage while he didn’t move at all, then composited into a single image with awesome lighting.  So while this is not his car, he gets to have senior pictures with his dream.

 

 

 

Ok, this last one I personally love.  It would make an awesome picture on metal like a poster in his room.  I told you I wanted something special with the car.  😉

 

Do you have a high school senior graduating in 2016 and still need senior pictures?  Then we hope you will consider Firefly Nights Photography.  We are located in downtown Naperville, servicing all of Chicago, especially the western suburbs like Elmhurst and Hinsdale.  Take a look through our Galleries for more of our work.