Senior Portraits | Shell Bailey Photography

Dec

Pittsburgh Senior Portraits | Isaiah 2012

lifestyle portraits / Senior Portraits / 0 Comments / December 7, 2011

Isaiah came with one outfit and knowing exactly what he wanted his yearbook picture to look like… love that. Especially when the one outfit is a James Bond-esque suit and the idea involves the best fall landscape we could find. I’m not one to argue with style.

I love shooting senior portraits in the fall, especially if it means hiking through the woods in order to best take advantage of the leaves… and climbing on top of bridges… and over waterfalls… well. We wanted to make sure we got interesting shots, and I think we lived up to that!

Congrats Isaiah, best of luck for the rest of your year!

Dec

Pittsburgh Senior Portraits | Emily 2012

lifestyle portraits / Senior Portraits / 5 Comments / December 2, 2011

Emily is graduating! Woohoo!

We took a lovely sunny evening with the last of the fall leaves to take her senior portraits at the park. Emily had a lot of cool outfits & ideas, we definitely had a good time. Of course we get the standard yearbook shots, but I love when seniors bring outfits & ideas that really represent their personalities and interests- it gives us a chance for really unique portraits.

Emily hopes to go to Gettysburg College to major in history. (Yeah, I’m a little jealous.) That’s such a great opportunity. Congrats Emily, and good luck in all of the adventures still ahead of you!

May

Senior Portraits | Ian

lifestyle portraits / Senior Portraits / 14 Comments / May 18, 2011

So my little brother Ian is graduating this year! Although I guess I probably shouldn’t call him that any more- he’s about a foot taller than I am, and most people don’t figure that he’s younger than me.

To say that we were going for nontraditional senior portraits might be putting it mildly. As for the accordion? He’ll tell you it’s my fault, but I don’t know. I may or may not have been responsible for setting him up with an amazing accordion teacher one day. But it’s absolutely not my fault that he took like two classes and and wound being stupidly good at it. That accordion actually has a history to it- it was my great-grandfather’s, who played it at my parent’s wedding; Ian worked at it & played it at my brother’s wedding last year. Good stuff. And everyone knows that the accordion is the sexiest instrument alive, anyways.

Sep

Stylish Senior Portraits | Sara

lifestyle portraits / Senior Portraits / 9 Comments / September 30, 2010

Sara graduated from La Roche this past year and wanted portraits to celebrate! We chose to wander around Schenley Park and Oakland area to get some great shots.

Sara asked if she could bring her dog, Ralphie, along for some shots… Of course I said yes! I absolutely love animals- for a while, the house I grew up in had: three rabbits, two cats, one large dog, and fish. After that, taking pictures of one dog is easy! Anyway, I love it when people choose to document their pets as part of the family. I’m happy to work with them anytime.

Of course, we did end up getting the one day that was 90+ degrees and sunny and humid. But Ralphie was a good sport and Sara, of course, looked chic and beautiful the entire time. She has such a great sense of style. This first shot looks like she walked out of Sex & the City.