Graduations

About our graduations work

Cap and gown sessions on campus and in the city. Four things get asked for afterwards every single time: the regalia frames, the diploma folder, the sign or the building with the school's name on it, and a set without the gown. We shoot all four as standard rather than have anybody come back.

Where it happens changes the whole feel. A campus gives you stone, ivy and lawn, which is what most families picture. The city gives you bridges, the river and the Loop stacked up behind every frame, which is what a lot of graduates actually want. The frames here come from both.

Shooting downtown on a weekday means working around a busy street, and that is the point rather than the problem. Some of it is shot slow and long on purpose so the people around the graduate blur and they stay sharp, which is much closer to what the day felt like.

We also make sure there are frames with the people who paid for it. Those are the ones that get printed, and they are the ones most often forgotten until everybody has already gone home.