Portrait Place Studio

09/14/2024

09/12/2024

I’ve been doing my smoke & colored gel lighting portraits in gyms. Now I’m wanting to get out and do a football player on his field. Does anybody have a photogenic football player, preferably at a school with attractive bleachers in the background? Hit me up for a N/C practice session.

09/02/2024

Had some spare time today and thought I'd try putting your whole Stars Youth Football/Cheer Team together.

08/29/2024

Central Stars - Here are the Coach and athlete photos from a couple of weeks ago team photos. Feel free to share and tag yourselves! The rest of the photos go online tomorrow.
Thank you for the opportunity!

08/12/2024

Senior Portraits on a Sunday night

08/12/2024

Sr Portrait season and the Piggy's end of life session all rolled into one. I see good bacon in the future!

07/17/2024

Hey Peeps - I'm in search of a very part time employee for helping with athletic photo days of all varieties. The work is easy, and only a few hours at a time. Pay is in $$. Typlically later afternoons/early evenings.No photographic knowledge required - just need to be an outgoing person who can give orders to kids! Must be reliable. Perfect for empty nesters or moms whose kids don't need constant supervision.

Hit me up if you fit the bill, or know of someone who does.

07/02/2024

Individual Images from today's session with Mady

07/02/2024

Had fun with another volleyball player this morning - Mady was a blast to work with and I created some awesome images!

06/30/2024

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06/29/2024

Here's the individual images of Christa from the Media Day Style shoot we did! She really brought her A Game!

06/29/2024

Who thinks this stuff is Fun?! Worked with Christa today creating images to test for Seniors sessions or High School Media Day images for teams. Hype films and promo images to support YOUR high school teams.

06/21/2024

Hey Athletes! Looking for something Amazing for your Senior Portraits to highlight what you love? Kathryn can create a one-of-a-kind piece of ART of you.

This guy was the consumate athlete, and his Artisan Composite image encompasses all of his sports. Portrait Place is well known for creating the Artisan image. But we also had some other great football images to work with too. All were created in the studio and the great use of light is what really makes them shine.

Call or text 815.216.1344 to get information on creating something legendary.

06/20/2024

Looking for a volleyball player willing to help me try out some new ideas for my Sportraits photos. Needs to be in your gym. Smoke, gels & awesome angles! Hit me up - I'm open next week.

06/18/2024

Hey Athletes! Looking for something Amazing for your Senior Portraits to highlight what you love? Kathryn can create a one-of-a-kind piece of ART of you.

Portrait Place works in YOUR space. Add some SMOKE, or take advantage of reflections to take your photos over the top with added light.

Call or text 815.216.1344 to get information on creating something legendary.

06/15/2024

Hey Athletes! Looking for something Amazing for your Senior Portraits to highlight what you love? Kathryn can create a one-of-a-kind piece of ART of you.

Portrait Place also has an indoor studio option, which is my favorite, as I can totally control the light to make YOU look your best.
From green screen backdrops for multi image composites, to model lighting, white room window light and a multitude of backgrounds for every look you an even imagine .

Call or text 815.216.1344 to get information on creating something legendary.

06/12/2024

Hey Athletes! Looking for something Amazing for your Senior Portraits to highlight what you love? Kathryn can create a one-of-a-kind piece of ART of you.

Portrait Place believes that outdoor portraits NEED to have some extra light added to make them EPIC. Here is an awesome example of what you'd get from just a "natural light" photographer and what you get from me.

Call or text 815.216.1344 to get information on creating something legendary.

06/09/2024

Hey Athletes! Looking for something Amazing for your Senior Portraits to highlight what you love? Kathryn can create a one-of-a-kind piece of ART of you.

Portrait Place Studio has been in business since the '80s, and is still going! Every year something new is added - it could be fire, could be smoke, Always is awesome lighting!

Call or text 815.216.1344 to get information on creating something legendary.

05/28/2024

One thing that is great about Onarga is the Memorial Day remembrance event. It's so good to see everyone come out to see the American Legion pay their respects to those who didn't make it home. A few images that caught my eye

04/04/2024

A little something extra I whipped up from the Twisters 9u fastpitch shoot from last week.

04/03/2024

I always love creating something special for any HS athletes that I've photographed for school sports when they get to go to State. These are a few of the Central/IW Wrestling team who qualified for state last month. Congratulations Wrestlers!

03/17/2024

Got going on a few images from last night's IWHS musical, Matilda. The kids were all awesome! They showed so much expression, and I was truely blown away by how professional they were. More pix will be up later, but wanted to get a few uploaded while the buzz was still there

01/27/2024

What's better to do on a foggy weekend than play creating with an awesome softball player! A little bit of composite action first off. Then we did Fire Bubbles & smoke! Those will be coming later! Thanks Nautica!!

01/26/2024

Congratulations Central wrestlers on your Sr night! I’d tried to keep their Sr banners & gift image pretty much under wraps til tonight. I had a blast creating something awesome for them. All I f them were so easy to work with and really into my ideas for some fun poses.
Thanks for allowing me to play!

01/10/2024

Last night was my favorite night of IW basketball when they play at the Onarga Middle School gym! Why you ask? Because I can sit on the stage, right under the basket and get those awesome shots of the guys battling it out and also, because I can set up strobe lighting on either side of the gym. It's low powered and players don't notice it, but it adds some extra pizzazz to a usually poorly lit gym's character. Unfortunately IW didn't come up on the winning end of the games, but I've got some great images for them.