Let us give you a little photography lesson… the single most important thing in creating a beautiful, knock you on your knees image is LIGHT. Weird, huh? We could put you in the best pose in the world in the most gorgeous setting, but if the lighting is bad, the photo will make less of a statement.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever stood in the middle of your yard around noon to take a family photo and want to delete the image as soon as you saw it because your eyes were squinty and you looked like you had bags under your eyes? Did you raise your hand? We certainly did! I wanted to give you a couple of real life, everyday photos as an example…

Although I love this photo of my family at my graduation because it’s such a wonderful memory, we are all squinting and have dark shadows on our face, which we could have avoided if we made one adjustment- lighting! 

As you can see, good lighting makes the unflattering bags under your eyes disappear! All Hannah and I had to do was find shade, and our skin and eyes look ten times better! 
 

Nope you didn’t read that wrong, the bags under your eyes really disappear! It’s like the magical concealer you’ve always wanted.

After hearing that, I bet your wondering how we can create the best lighting, right? Well let me tell you, you don’t need to do anything but wait. Mother Nature does it all for us in the shade and at sunset. The hour or two surrounding sunset is the absolute best time to take photos. It’s actually why our business is called Golden Hour Images. Golden hour gives us soft, even light from head to toe. We don’t have to worry about spotty or split light. The light during golden hour gives our images warmth, and the soft light allows our clients to look their very best. 

If you book with us, you’ll find we only schedule our sessions during golden hour, which is two hours before the sun sets. 

– Chelsea & Hannah