Queens has more usable outdoor photography locations than most people give it credit for. Grace has been shooting in the borough since 2018 and has strong opinions about which parks work for which kinds of sessions. Here is the honest breakdown. Read more →
Ninety minutes sounds like a long time until you are standing in a park with two kids who have decided they are done cooperating. Grace has structured the full family session specifically to work around that reality. Here is how the time actually gets used.
The single most common thing Grace hears from parents in the first five minutes of a session is: 'She was so excited this morning and now she won't look at the camera.' It happens constantly, and it is almost never the child's fault. Here is what actually helps.
Every photographer has an editing style, whether they have thought about it deliberately or not. Grace has been refining the same basic approach since she started Tiny Voyager Studio in 2018, and the core of it has not changed much. Here is what it is and why it works for family photography.
Most first-time parents book a newborn session without a clear picture of what actually happens during one. Grace has photographed newborns in homes across Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, and the questions she gets asked most often are the same every time. Here are the honest answers.
Most families who book a session end up with a digital gallery they love and look at for about three weeks before it gets buried in a folder. Grace is not judgmental about this. She has a hard drive full of her own unprinted photographs. But she does think it is worth understanding what gets lost when images stay digital.
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