Ridgeway Seniors

Thursday, July 2, 2009

A Sneek Preview of Amy Mullen and Dan Hantack

We are still on vacation, but I thought I would post a couple of images of Amy Mullen of Collinsville and Dan Hantack of Edwardsville. Both will be seeing their images next week and we didn't want them to wait too long to get a view of how their sessions went.

We love to hear comments about our work and this blog. If you have any suggestions please let us know. This blog is to help you see samples of our work and to give you up-to-date information about Ridgeway's Senior portraits. Hope your summer is everything you want. See you later.

Amy Mullen -Collinsville

Amy Mullen - Collinsville

Dan Hantack - Edwardsville

Monday, June 29, 2009

On Vacation

Hello, Seniors.

I just wanted to let you all know that Ridgeway Portrait Design will be closed this week (June 29th - July 5th). We'll be back on Monday, July 6th.

You can message us through this blog or you can go to our Facebook page and let us know that you need something. Don't be shy! You all know that we are Facebook and Blog junkies.

Just a few things: We are totally booked through July. We are now scheduling for August and Septemeber. It is not too early to schedule this far in advance. John is well sought after Senior photographer from all over the county and other states. We can only take so many appointments because there is only so much time in a week. Get on it; figure out what kind of session you want (check out the right-hand column of this blog for session choices and descriptions) and then call us to set up your senior session. It is fun and we help you every step of the way.

The link to facebook is http://facebook.com/johnridgeway.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

We have a few more 2010 Seniors to show you. So far, this has been a great group of seniors. We are having so much fun with everyone. Today we are featuring Ali Carson and Mattie Cerkowski from Edwardsville. They haven't seen their entire session yet, but this is just a sneak peek. LOL! Don't worry though, we sent them these images first before posting them here for you all to see.

Funny! Some of you have been paying attention to our talking about July being almost booked up because today the phone has been ringing to schedule their senior session. It is a great experience and fun. I'm sure you can ask any of the people you see here on our blog or facebook what their session was like. Everyone comes in a little nervous, but soon you feel special and start enjoying the process. So don't delay! If you want to take advantage of the 30% off session fee special, all you need to do is call us.

Ali Carson - Edwardsville

Mattie Cerkowski - Edwardsville

Monday, June 22, 2009

A Few Of Our Recent Seniors

The 2010 Senior season has started out with a bang this year. We just wanted to share a few of the earlier sessions. We would love to hear what you think so please feel free to leave a comment if you like something you see.

We have a few spots left in July, so if you want to get in before school starts then call and schedule your session soon. I know... your summer just started, but July is almost here and we are 80% filled up. If you are in sports you really need to get on the ball. Your practices will be starting and then it's almost impossible to get in with that schedule. Come on, let's go.

Kayla Jones - Triad

Kayla - Triad

Laura Perry - Collinsville

Laura - Collinsville

Jessie Flowers - Granite City

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Sneak Peek of Manda Chasteen (EHS)

This is Manda Chasteen of Edwardsville. I enjoyed photographing Manda. She has a cute look and is very interesting. Glad she chose us (Ridgeway Portrait Design) for her senior portraits.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Sneak Peek of Cole Wille (CHS)

Here are a couple of images of Cole Wille's senior session last week. Cole was cool to photograph because he brought in his baseball gear and he knew what he wanted. Very self-confident. We also photographed his sister, Megan a few years ago.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Sneak Peek of Clayton Hiles (CHS)

Today we are featuring Clayton Hile of Collinsville High School. John photographed his older brother, Chad a couple of years ago. Clayton was pretty cool when he was here. He's into Motorcross, dirt bikes, hunting, fishing, partying, hanging out, going out to eat.

2010 Senior Portraits by Ridgeway Portrait Design

Ridgeway's Photo Sessions

'A' SESSIONS

These are the most popular ways to experience a senior portrait session at Ridgeway. They are the perfect way to guarantee you get indoor, outdoors*, color, B&W, and BrownTones, plus any of the many art effects Ridgeway offers! You'll get tons of variety with the opportunity to bring all your cool stuff that makes you - YOU!

The Attitude Session - $125

Bring your favorite outfits and we'll pick the look that best describes you. This one hour session will give you plenty of looks for today's style and great looks for the family.

The Art Session - $200

Two hours of creativity. John will create many ways for your unique style to shine through. Bring lots of outfits, accessories and your stuff. This session is great for your car, sports equipment and pets.

The Album Session - $300

This is a highly customized 3 hour session that affords you the opportunity to show off all your different looks and your individuality. A bewautiful custom album will be designed just for you. The more outfit variety the better.

(Minimum purchase of Element or Galleria Album required with this session)

'B' SESSIONS

Why the B Sessions? If you want to look good, but time or affordability is a concern and you don't want too many choices, the "B" sessions are for you. These sessions are indoor only. Art effects may be added for additional charges.

The Basic Session - $85

Bring your outfits; we'll do whatever fits in 45 minutes.

The Bare Minimum Session - $65

25 minute session. Bring what you want.

Why Ridgeway Portrait Design? What makes us so different?

We are celebrating our 20th year in business this year and have loved every minute of it. Why choose Ridgeway Portrait Design? Well here are a few reasons:

LIGHTING. John Ridgeway understands lighting and how to flatter your face and body with it. He can create moods and different looks by using a variety of different lighting types throughout your session. Each session can be photographed indoors, outside, with window light, with fashion lights and flash to give you the Ridgeway portrait LOOK!

TECHNOLOGY. At Ridgeway Portrait Design we have all the newest and most update equipment and knowledge on how to make you look the best you can. John Ridgeway knows about cameras, lenses and all the secrets about how to make them work to create our own unique Ridgeway STYLE.

ANATOMY. John understands how the human face, form and movement play an important part in making great portraits. John Ridgeway know how to help you move and turn to find the angles that will make you look your best. The fabulous part is, you don't have to worry about what to do. John will give you direction so that your individuality will SHINE through.

PERSONALITY. We also learn about your personality and feelings and then use the best ways to help you show "who you are" in your portraits. RELAX and be yourself and let us do all the work.

LOCATION. At Ridgeway Portrait Design you can be photographed in so many different sets that we could shoot all day and never use the same set twice. The window light and flash area in our studio, the backlot behind the studio houses sets like the beach, the old truck, the creek, gasoline alley, grandma's porch, the gazebo, the surf area, the pergola...

We search all over the country to find the in-style, trendy, just the right color sets and backgrounds to look good with your outfits and where you live.

With Ridgeway's knowledge of light, color, posing and all of our sets to do your photo session-just add you - and you will have an EXPERIENCE you will never forget and senior portraits that you will LOVE!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

A Sneek Preview of Amy Mullen and Dan Hantack