One cool thing about being a High School Senior photographer is that all the kids are so individual in some aspects and pretty much the same in others. This shoot I was reminded of two things that stay pretty constant in Senior guy shooting. One, the Boys want to be seen as bad-asses and two, mom's don't see their little boys as that at all!
This Senior shoot was with Ryan Gallegos a High School Senior at Blackfoot High. Ryan is a running back and defensive back for this years Idaho UNDEFEATED 4A State Champion Blackfoot Broncos and is a phenomenal student. I know Ryan pretty well being one of his football coaches, so his shoot was very comfortable and we talked a lot about our season and what we needed to do to reach our goal of winning state (which we did!).
The next day or so Ryan and his mother came back to the studio for their view and order session. Usually for a senior session I shoot around 250 images so the family has a great variety of images to choose from. I alway show a slideshow of all the images that I take that day at the beginning of the session. The show was playing and I was looking at them feeling pretty good with what I had shot when at about the 200 image mark I hear Ryan's mom whisper, "you didn't smile in one picture."
Sure enough, not one smile in 250 images! Ryan and I had been talking so much about winning football games that I didn't notice he was not smiling at all, but rather getting his Bad-A on! Lucky his mom was mega cool and agreed to let me shoot him one more time and make sure he smiled. I think her comment was, "We paid enough for that smile I want to see it." So the next day we shot again. I wish I could say we didn't talk more football, but that would be a lie. Here are some of the images from Ryan's sessions, including a few of him with his awesome smile. Another Senior photography lesson learned!
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