Category: Commerical

Real Estate Photography

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If you are looking to sell your house your realtor will probably give you tips on how to get your home ready to list.  That will include staging (read a few ideas here) and getting images made to go on MLS, other online sites and for brochures.  That’s where I come in.

Assuming you have already gotten it stage ready, here are some tips on how to get your house photo ready for it’s glamor session:

  • Turn on all the lights, even your outside porch, deck and patio lights oh, and lamps too.  Make sure all your bulbs are burning.  Want to go one step further? Use daylight bulbs in all your overhead lighting.
  • Open all your blinds.  If you have slat blinds, drop all the way to the window sill, rotate slats completely horizontal (parallel to the floor). All curtains should be open as well.  If you have retention roll blinds, bring those up to run even with the window locks (about middle should do just fine).
  • Hide all recycling bins and trash cans, even ones in the bathroom.  You can usually stash those in the garage.
  • Close all toilet seat lids.
  • Make sure all the debris is picked up from your yard; don’t forget if we can see under your deck, it will show up in the photographs.

If you follow these simple guidelines, you will be guaranteed beautiful images, that will catch buyer’s attention and get your house sold fast!

Welcome to my new real estate clients, I look forward to working with you and getting your listings sold.

Here is a sample from a session I did last week:

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Do your office mates reduce your stress?

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Today I photographed corporate portraits for the staff of  Rhodey Construction.  They needed to update some images for their website.  I walked in and was warmly greeted by Cody; and I immediately felt at home.  Soon after, Alvin came in and once he said ‘hello’ to Cody, he greeted me as well.

There is great research that says having pets at the office reduce stress and increases productivity.  I believe that whole hardly (as I sit and type this, Jackson is laying beside me snoring and dreaming and that makes me happy).  I think the entire crew at Rhodey Construction would agree too; there were a lot of happy, smiling people there in the office today.  What a perfect way to spend the morning… photographing people and their office mates of the four legged kind!

Here is a pic of both Cody and Alvin. Adorable!

Know anyone that needs corporate portraits, including their office pets too? Please share my contact information, I’d love to create beautiful images for them as well!

 

A Few of My Favs from 2015

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2015 was a great year!

Here’s to 2016! Call now to book your date!

Corporate Portraits

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Why is a professional corporate portrait a good investment?

Your professional image:

  • is your first point of contact
  • will help you to be remembered
  • it is like a personal logo 
  • people are able to put a name to a face
  • makes you look more professional
  • will raise your brand significantly

Not convinced? Here is your chance to give it a try….contact me here; leave your name and email address and I will enter you in a drawing for a complimentary on location professional portrait(hurry and enter now, offer ends Friday, September 25 at 12pm).  I will come to your office or favorite location, make great images of you, and provide you a copy.  You can use it on LinkedIn, Facebook or any media page; you can use it for publication too.

You’ll be surprised at how many likes and comments you will receive on your new photograph!

Why? because your image means everything!

Share this blog with your friends, they can enter too!

Just a few of my Favs

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Just moving August images into archives and I thought I’d share a few of my favorite images from last month.

Enjoy!

St Louis Outside Family Portrait by Kristi Foster Photography

That was one hot morning! But the girls were so patient and gracious with their smiles.

St. Louis Outdoor Wedding and Elopement Photographer, Kristi Foster Photography

What a sweet elopement this was.  Were we outside the Faust Park with Carolyn Burke, the Elopement Connoisseur.

Kristi Foster Photography, Senior Portrait Photographer

Mark is a Senior this year! First time I photographed Mark, it was for his bar mitzvah, he wore his pet snake around his neck!

St Louis Outside Family Portrait by Kristi Foster Photography

Cover image for the Clayton Chamber Ensemble program at this year’s Midwest Clinic in Chicago. I can’t wait to see/hear them perform!

Headshots {St. Louis Photographer}

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I got a call from the PR department at a local hospital. They are in the process of redoing their website, adding new (and not so new) doctors and nurses and they needed a few images right away.

I will tell you, I love being in the hospital.  It reminds me of when I worked at Bowman Gray School of Medicine (now called Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center…whew that’s a mouth full).  I use to love getting lost in the halls on the way to the OR, or meeting all the med students on ‘picture day’, and I also loved when I got the chance to create environmental portraits for some of the most prominent doctors and researchers around.

So when Stephanie called and asked if I could do some headshots of the CEO and a few of their doctors, I was thrilled.  I”m hoping to do more for her as she begins revamping the website.

Here are a couple, stay tuned for more.