Senior Season Is Over

We had a lot of fun with the last senior of the season. Matt wanted lots of outdoor shots and we were able to find some really neat places to go including a great spot down the Wabash River. The tree roots and river were great. We went out a bit too early so a lot of the shots had way too much sun, but down by the river it was perfectly shaded.

If you still haven't gotten your senior portraits taken give us a call. Just because the senior season is over doesn't mean you can't get them done, it just means I won't be doing 3 or more every week. If you're holding out for fall portraits give us a call now to set up an appointment, the fall colors always make for great portraits.

New Proofing Site

We recently began making the transition over to a new online proofing host. The new site is much easier to navigate, much easier to see the pictures, and overall nicer to use. There is a small cost per image for the new service so we will probably be culling images down a lot more in the future, instead of getting most of your 200 images from a session you will most likely only be able to see half or so online. If you want to see your entire shoot a viewing appointment can be set up at our studio. Fur customers that have already seen their proofs on the old system we've transitioned everyone over, you should have no trouble finding your proofs. All passwords are the same in both systems. If your proofs have already expired from the old system they were not moved to the new one, if you would like additional time please send an email to info @ buckportraitstudio.com to request more time.

Cass County Chamber Pancake Breakfast

Don't forget to come out to the Pancake Breakfast at the fairgrounds Saturday from 7-11am. We'll have a small booth there displaying some of our newest portraits and wedding albums. We'll also be selling gift certificates which paired with our no sitting fees for 2007 makes a great gift.

Studio Sale!

To welcome everyone to Buck Portrait Studio we are offering studio portrait sessions for the rest of the year for absolutely free! Our studio sitting fee will be $15 starting January 1st, but if you schedule your appointment now you can waive that fee and buy just the units you want. We have no minimum orders, and no huge packages forcing you to buy more than you need. We are also slashing our current unit price of $12 per unit to the very low price of only $10 each! Act now to save big!

Now Open!

Buck Portrait Studio is pleased to announce the Grand Opening of our new studio in downtown Logansport. We've got 1600 square feet of studio space perfect for backdrop and prop storage and of course moving around and getting comfortable during photo shoots. We had a nice big shoot with a trio of cousins on Monday. We got several hundred great shots and I think everyone had a really great time. If you'd like to schedule a portrait session please give us a call and leave a message on our machine. We'll call you back as quickly as we can. The Senior Portrait season is finally starting to wind down so it's a prime time to get into the studio for a brand new family portrait.

First Session at the New Studio

We had our first portrait session at the new studio. It went great, the extra room made everything so much more comfortable. We were able to really stretch out and we ended up spending a lot more time in the studio than we planned and didn't have near as much sunlight for outdoor portraits as we had hoped. We were only using the studio temporarily, we're still not 100% done so we haven't moved the majority of our gear down there yet. The major stuff is done, we're mostly just finishing up a few odds and ends and waxing the floors. We are shooting for September 4th as our first official day, so if you want to get a portrait and help us break in our wonderful new space give us a call now.

Portraits the Hard Way!

I've seen portraits taken in what appears to be the local high school locker room several times and they've always looked really great. I recently got my first opportunity to photograph a high school senior in his locker room and it was a lot tougher than I thought it would be. The metal of the lockers were quite reflective and the open portions where equipment hangs had terrible shadows inside, not to mention every little thing sitting around the room cast shadows a mile long. I got plenty of great shots, but the whole shoot was much more challenging than I ever would have imagined. I got home and did some research and realized a lot of the shots I've seen were done with lockers that looked nothing like the ones in the locker room! I'm so naive, but these shots were faked! The lockers were never used, they're just props for portraits. Of course there is nothing wrong with that, when you're in your studio, you get to control the light and everything that goes in front of the camera. You can spray anti-reflective coating on the lockers if you want, but I think doing it in an actual locker room is great, the shots have that ring of truth, that every senior wants for their portraits.

Availability Update

I don't think we'll be able to schedule any more senior portrait sessions this month. The response for the coupon has been great and we're pretty much booked up for the rest of August. If you call now and schedule your session in August we can honor the 25% off. Even if you have your session in December, just make sure to schedule this month. September is pretty late for senior portraits, but if you haven't had yours take yet, it's as good a month as any, and so far it's wide open. Give us a call to schedule your session.

New Senior Portrait Location

I found a really neat area to take some great outdoor portraits. Along South River Road, the State Hospital has a back entrance. The entrance is flanked with two large curved walls and two tower kind of things with arched openings. There are almost limitless posing opportunities here, and on either side of these large walls are amazing low rock heap walls. We planned on stopping here for a senior portrait recently, but the area was so great we almost used up all of the sun posing on and around the walls.

Congratulations Jack and Jackie

I didn't even know the Madam Carrol did weddings! Shows what I know, it was a really amazing day. Hot of course, but the lower deck was air conditioned and both sides are top to bottom windows so the view was just wonderful. I can't remember the last time I had such an enjoyable time at a wedding. It was a blast and I'm so happy I was able to be a part of it.

Studio Opening

I believe we are going to be open for business at our new studio on September 3rd. We have made a lot of progress the last few weeks and the construction crew is done with all of the heavy lifting. They just need to install some floor tiles and bathroom fixtures and I just need to paint one more wall and do some serious cleaning. Now that moving day is so close I'm starting to realize the hard part wasn't renovating a 1500 square foot building, it's going to be very painful to move all of the photo props and backdrops I have across town. You can only load so many bar stools into a pickup truck in one trip.

Availability Update: We've booked about 6 senior portrait sessions this month due to our advertisement in the Pharos Tribune. We can probably handle about 6 more, so if you're still shopping for senior portraits give us a call at our studio or email us at info @ buckportraitstudio.com and we'll see how we can help you.

Congratulations to Nicole and Davin!

It was a pleasure to be a part of Nicole and Davin's special day. It was a really beautiful ceremony, and I can't recall a more elegant reception. I really had a lot of fun and that's considering I had almost no voice at all. All I can say is it's a good thing I was able to find an assistant on short notice to help with the posing because I was almost worthless the whole day. That is if you consider the guy pressing the shutter release worthless. I guess that's up for debate. Congratulations you guys, here's to a lifetime of happiness.

The sign is up!

The sign is now hanging on the side of my new studio at 719 Spear St, but I'm sorry to say we're not open yet. We've still got a lot of construction going on inside and since we're doing all of the work ourselves to keep costs down it's creeping along at a snails pace. I know there are lots of people ready to book studio appointments, I'm really sorry to be unable to help you, but I would love to book a location shoot for anyone that wants one. We can go to France Park or the dam at Riverside Park and do pretty much anything you want. The studio is coming along though, it shouldn't be more than another couple of months and we'll be fully open ready to take care of all of your photographic needs. Stay tuned for more news.

Senior Portraits

We're really pleased to be offering our first ever coupon for photography services. Starting August 1st, there will be a coupon for 25% any senior portrait package. We've got plenty of evening slots open between now and the end of summer so if you're still not sure what you're looking for in your senior portraits give us a call and we'll see what kinds of locations we can come up with.

Low Low Low

Could the river get any lower? I don't see how, but as bad as I feel for the fishes it's pretty cool going out on the river bed and taking portraits. There's a huge area at Little Turtle with lots of great places to pose. Then of course the area around the dam at Riverside has lots of limestone to walk around on. The closer you can get to the damn the cooler the shot. If you can stand the heat of a scorching summer sun and want to take some fun portraits in the river give us a call at our studio today to book a senior session.

Laura and Daniel

Congratulations to Laura and Daniel Kasamis. They had a beautiful wedding at the Indianapolis Art Center. The art all around and gorgeous gardens set a very artistic theme for the day and their portraits all turned out wonderfully. We all had a blast wandering around the campus looking at sculptures and taking pictures. It was a little scary on the Monon Trail, the cyclists come through there pretty darn fast and it's easy to become distracted with a camera in my hands, glad no one in the wedding party got run over by a 10-speed. Congratulations to Laura and Daniel, it was a pleasure photographing your wedding.

Wedding Season is here!

We're right in the middle of the summer wedding season, things are crazy. We're jumping back and forth from wedding to wedding taking pictures and designing albums. We've got plenty of time during the week for senior sessions though, if you're graduating next year give us a call to set up your portrait session.

We're still months away from being ready at our studio, lots and lots of painting to do and it's hard to find time to paint when you're doing some much shooting. It's a good problem to have of course, but if you're holding out for a session at the studio you're probably better off just scheduling something on location now.

Congratulations Jasmine and Jeremy!

Jasmine and Jeremy Binkerd had a very lovely ceremony at River of Life Christian Church in Logansport. It was a very early wedding and the reception started around lunch time, but it's been a long time since I've been to such a fun reception. After 2 solid hours of dancing I was exhausted from just watching those guys.

New Phone Number!

In preparation for opening our studio downtown we have set up our telephone at that location. You can contact us there at 574.722.3333. The address of the studio is 719 Spencer Street, it's the old Logansport Lumber building just behind Shepler Construction on Eerie Avenue.

New Album Format

We're very pleased to be able to offer a new size and shape of coffee table book to display your wedding images in. We can now design and print 10" x 10" albums. This changes the feel of the album as this format is shorter and wider so each 2 page spread is almost panoramic. The best part is we can duplicate your entire book into a miniature 5" x 5" version as well. So if you want to give one to each member of your wedding party or your grandparents you can do this without spending a small fortune. Give us a call to check out our new 10x10 and 5x5 samples.