Portraits.
New Orleans Portrait Photography
for Weird Couples
Merging flattering poses with Genuine Interactions for portraits that don’t suck.
Let’s face it:
some portrait photography sucks.
We’ve all seen bad engagement photos. They’re cliché or cheesy or so painfully awkward that we want to crawl into a hole with second-hand embarrassment.
And we aren’t talking bad in that ironic let's-pretend-to-be-a-couple-in-the-80’s-on-swings sort of way. We are talking couple’s portraits that are so awful even their own grandmothers won’t hang them on their wood-paneled walls from 1972.
The poses are unflattering, the lighting is terrible, the background is distracting, the editing is sloppy… but the worst part is the couple is stiff and uncomfortable… and it really, really shows.
After two decades of portrait photography in New Orleans, Lady is committed to creating images that unequivocally do not suck.
Lady’s Portrait Philosophy
“My goal in every portrait session is to be as weird as humanly possible… and create portraits that don’t suck.
You know that old saying “the camera adds ten pounds”? Well, it’s not the camera’s fault; it’s the pose!
I start every session with my portrait photography spiel- things I’ve learned through working with hundreds of different couples over the last two decades. I’ll go in depth about sneaky ways you can move your body to make sure you look your best in photos. I have go-to poses but I always adapt them for each couple so their unique shapes fit together in the best way.
Posing often feels unnatural. That’s because it is. Nobody is just normally leaning up against a lamp post in a park with their back perfectly arched, not a stray hair out of place, and chin tilted at just the right angle so the setting sun creates a perfect halo. But damn do they look good… and some clever photographer posed them that way.
I start by putting you in a killer pose then combat that unnatural feeling with conversation prompts so you can forget about the way you’re standing/sitting/levitating and focus on the person you love. Instead of looking pained (and painfully awkward), you’ll have genuine facial expressions inspired by your person… and probably a bit of laughing at my nonstop jackassery on the other side of the lens.
The best part comes when I show you the back of my camera so you can see that you do, indeed, look cute as shit. Then you’ll be feeling confident in your movements in front of the camera. Meanwhile, I’ll continue to be absolutely ridiculous behind it so you couldn’t feel stiff and uncomfortable if you tried.” -Lady