You’re about to graduate from high school and embark on a new journey in your life, whether to college, starting a career or a gap year. High school graduation is all about leaving your childhood behind and moving into the next phase of your life as an adult.

Professional senior portraits are the perfect way to mark this milestone in your life. These images give both you and your parents something to look back on in the years to come, as well as a way to share your excitement with friends and family about your accomplishments and the big changes to come in your life.  It is also a great way to document your passions, whether they be hobbies or sports.

Capture Your Personality

For your parents, senior portraits were probably a little more formal—a nice dress or shirt and tie in a photo studio. Today, however, professional photographers who specialize in senior portraits are able to create images that are closer to works of art. Through skillful lighting, posing, and editing, a professional photographer can help capture images that show off your personality and the things you love.  Depending on the packages you select you can also have multiple outfits.  This is where you will get an opportunity to really show your personality.

Celebrate Your Accomplishments

You’ve worked hard to get to graduation, from studying for exams to participating in sports or other extracurriculars. You deserve to celebrate everything you’ve accomplished over the last four years of your high school career. A senior portrait session is a great way to celebrate all that you’ve done while looking forward to the future.  Some seniors will be able to continue playing sports past high school and for others this will be the last time you get to wear a jersey.  Sports requires lots of hard work and lots of sacrifice.  This is an opportunity to tell that story and commemorate those sacrifices with amazing sports portraits.

Remember This Moment

Graduation is a huge occasion, and while you may feel like you will remember it forever, you may be surprised how quickly you might forget the feeling. Photos are a wonderful way to capture not only how you looked, but your personality and interests. Looking back on your senior photos in the future will allow you to remember that unique time in your life years later.

Get the Expertise You Need

Anyone can snap a few photos, but if you want someone to make you look your absolute best, you need a professional photographer. They can help guide you through poses and even facial expressions to help get images you’ll love. Plus, their skill in lighting and framing photos, as well as editing, will give your photos the boost they need to be truly memorable.

Make Your Parents Happy

While your senior photos are about you and your accomplishments, they also mark a huge moment in the lives of your parents as well. What better way to thank Mom and Dad for their support than to give them a memento celebrating how far you’ve come?

Graduating from high school is an important milestone in your life, which is why it’s so important to document this moment. You deserve quality images that you can look back on for years to come and maybe even show your own children one day. A professional senior session is an investment in memories and well worth it.

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Denise is a class of 2020 senior that attends Desert Hot Springs high school.  She was the winner of our big senior portrait session giveaway we did earlier this year.  Denise plays volleyball and is planning on attending college after her high school senior year.  

When Denise came in she was a bit shy but quickly warmed up.  Denise’s session was lots of fun taking her senior portraits.  We especially had fun taking the diving pictures.  We had to do it a few times to get it right.  Denise’s mom was helping to throw the volleyball towards her so that she could dive and hit it before it hit the ground.  For a while, the ball hit her face, neck and every area except her hands J.  The outtakes from her senior portraits are hilarious!  We were all laughing and having a great time! 

Denise was able to borrow a volleyball from her school which is awesome because the schools usually have custom balls made with the school logo and or school colors.  This helps to make for some unique senior portraits.  We always recommend adding anything that helps personalize your senior portraits which is why we have all of our seniors complete our senior questionnaire. 

One thing to note about Denise’s senior portraits that may help others schedule their session.  We are sometimes at the mercy of the team.  We wanted to do the senior portraits earlier in the year but we had to wait for the season to start so that Denise could get her jerseys.  That being said, if you plan on taking senior portraits with a school uniform you may have to talk to the coach about letting us borrow the team jerseys. 

Lisandro Rivera Photography

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 Senior Picture Testimonial

Jaden and Mandy shared this about his senior pictures,

 “It was an extreme pleasure, Mr. Rivera is a professional.  I look forward to working with him and even got my friends excited about working with him for their senior pictures.  We came in and felt extremely comfortable and fired up about the shoot and were extremely pleased with the way they came out!  I feel that he captures me perfectly as a football player.  I strongly recommend him for senior pictures.”

Mandy (Jaden’s Mom):

“I love the way my son and his sport is captured in these amazing photographs.  The creativity, quality, and eye for detail is unmatched!”

 Jaden is the starting running back for his high school football team and was recently voted as the week two high school player of the week for his performance against Banning where he had 27 carries for 174 yards and 3 touchdowns on offense and 10 tackles, a sack and 3 quarterback hurries.  The Shadow Hills Knights beat Banning 44-6. 

Jaden is a senior at Shadow Hills high schools and has aspirations of playing college football.  I can’t wait to see what is in store for Jaden.  He is a great kid on and off the field. 

Lisandro Rivera

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I’d like for your son/daughter to prepare for their high school senior sports shoot the same way they would prepare for a game. Bring all the equipment (including balls) you would typically need at a game and then some. What do I mean by “and then some”? Well, for instance… you may not like to use eye black in a game, however, for your pictures eye black can give your pictures a great look.  Being prepared will provide you with the best senior pictures.

For a boy I would also bring a suit or some nice pants/jeans with a dress shirt and tie, I like to mix in different looks. For girls, the same is true, bring a dress, depending on the situation it may be fun to add in a different look. Adding these different looks can show you are more than just an athlete. We also offer packages that include an on-location lifestyle high school senior session as well as a sports senior shoot.

Don’t Forget Your Jersey

If your high school senior is a multiple sport athlete, bring all the gear for the different sports. Also, if the sport is in season you should have the jersey/s. If, however, your sport is not in season it will be important to talk to the coach and explain you have a scheduled a high school senior pictures for your son/daughter and would like to borrow a jersey for the shoot. Try and get the jersey/number your daughter/son likes to wear; this makes them feel better about the shoot.

Our senior sports shoots are done on a green screen. We will add the background in post-production. Once the images are ready I will present them to you and you will select your favorite images.   I will work on creating the background for those images and you will then be invited to our office for the reveal.

Prior to the reveal, I ask that you please send me pictures of any walls you think you would like to hang up your wall art. You can take the pictures with your phone and send them to me (I will provide you with more information after the shoot).

On the day of the reveal, you will have the opportunity to purchase any images you like.

This is their high school senior year, let’s create something that will blow everyone away!

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Respectfully,

Lisandro Rivera
(310) 629-5575 / www.leeriveraphotography.com
IG: @lisandroriveraphotography

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