This months spotlight is on Military portraits. We don’t photograph many members of our military in uniform but from time to time we get a request for a formal portrait in their dress uniform. Usually it’s a service member getting ready to transition out of the armed forces and they want a portrait to remember their service; or they want a nice portrait for family.
This young man had a little different spin on this concept. He wanted a traditional portrait in his dress uniform for family for Christmas. But he also wanted to get an old portrait he had of his grandfather framed as a gift for him. He had a digital image of the portrait but could not locate any studio where it was taken (in another state). His family sent him the digital image with the hopes that we could reproduce it and get it framed. Then his plan was to send his grandfather a nice large framed print of that plus one of himself in uniform.
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