Living Portraiture,Personalized Family Art Photography

Ril offers living portrait sessions for you and your family.

What are living portraits?

Imagine forgetting the camera is there. You are in your own environment,laughing and just being yourselves, rather then preparing for a family portrait in a sterile environment like a studio with fake backgrounds, and stiff smiles and dressy clothes you never really wear anyway.

Comfy in your T shirt and Jeans? No problem.Want to wear your Pajamas? No problem. Your child playing outside in their super hero suit? No problem. Just be yourself, and we will capture the real you!

Or, you pick your favourite place and you direct the photo shoot. This works well often with children who are not comfortable with studio photo shoots.

Ril has a background working with autistic, downs syndrome children, and ADHD children and adults, and can make them comfortable enough to allow them to be themselves, and can move around well with them to capture them in action.

Ril is patient and gets right in there with the children to capture great moments in time, that you will treasure forever. Ril works well with active children and pets, specializing in children with special needs.

If you have a special needs child, the Living Portraiture session is perfect for you. It allows you to get real pictures of your child to capture that humour and smile and beauty you see in them every day, that a scheduled session outside of their comfort zone can not capture.

Ril will capture your child’s real personality in your pictures, not the diagnosis that often the world outside sees, when they are scared or tired.

 

Ril will meet with you casually like a friend to allow your child to become familiar with her and be able to be themselves. If it takes a few meetings for your child to become familiar with her, that is fine.

Children with autism especially need to know what is going on, and she works well with them and has a knack for winning them over.

Ril is the mother of two special needs children- 10 and 6 years old.

Paparazzi Package

Ril offers a “paparazzi package” for families, or couples. Do you have tonnes of cute picture of the kids to scrapbook and share with family, but none of you all doing things together as a family, because you’re always behind the lens?

Be “famous for a day” and hire Ril as your personal paparazzi to capture you and your family being yourselves at home, or at your favourite location like a park, or beach etc. The possibilities are endless.

 

 

Into Sports?

Ril’s husband, John specializes in and loves the challenge of action photography. He can capture you, your team, or your child etc. in mid play on the field playing soccer, or hockey, or at the barrel horse races, on your ATV or motorbike etc.

Let John work his magic and capture the action in your life to create a one of a kind portrait!

Have a look at John’s Portfolio to find out more information on hiring him for your living portrait session. (coming soon)

Ril attends all of the photo session with John as his assistant.

Contact Ril to get more information or to book your photo session today.

contact us

email : ril@rilya.ca