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“My first "professional" photo shoot was a disaster. Yes, the pictures looked crisp, and the lighting was even. But I looked stiff and tense! A few years later, I tried again. This time, I looked frumpy. And my beautiful studio looked cluttered in the background. After that, I retreated to selfies. "Who needs photos when you have drawings?" I thought. Yet, as a brand designer, I knew combining my quirky drawings with professional portraits would be powerful. A few years passed. Then, at a shamanistic meditation retreat (of all places!), I met Rasmus Sigvaldi who turned out to be a photographer who seemed to get me. On a whim, I booked a session. It happened last Friday. For the first time, I enjoyed being photographed. I felt comfortable, confident, and – had fun! I just got the raw photos, and I'm over the moon happy. Exactly what I needed but couldn’t quite articulate before – a blend of creativity, professionalism, and authenticity.”

“Well, to echo some of the other comments here, modeling is way harder than it looks. I model, and have photoshoots on a semi-regular basis. I try to schedule them so I have a day off afterwards - I'm sore and exhausted after a few hours of shooting. Posing generally is uncomfortable and hurts. Even the most effortless looking image - that person is holding and twisting 17 different body parts, awkwardly, it just looks graceful at the end. Most people don't realize exactly how much you have to contort your body on camera, and I wish the photographer had guided you through that.”

“As an incoming high school senior, I had never had professional photographs of me taken, so senior pictures were a wary foe. To be frank, the event was completely terrifying at first. However, despite my early-on awkwardness, Caroline managed to make me look beautiful, happy, and carefree. With the immense help of her enthusiastic and enjoyable disposition, I gradually eased into the shoot, and by the end of the session, I was laughing at her hilarious jokes and having one of the most pleasurable experiences of my senior year thus far. [...] Most importantly, she didn’t make me look over-done or under-done on camera. The hair was exactly what I wanted.”