Sharing our passion with the world. Our love of photography is endless. Please enjoy the pictures we post and the sentiment behind them. Many blessings, Scott and Valorie Walz
Once again, Studio Walz photography has been nominated as the Best photographer in Lexington, Ky. We are honored and delighted that our clients have nominated us. Even after 32 years of serving Lexington and the surrounding counties and states it never gets old to receive such a wonderful compliment.
Please take the time to visit votelexington.com
Voting Closes on May 10, 2024.
You can vote once everyday for us.
We want you to meet Brooklyn. This fiesty and prescious beautiful girl had a kidney transplant in July of 2022 at only two years of age, but you would never know it seeing her today. Brooklyn developed Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome which according to Johns Hopkins is "an herited disorder characterized by protein in the urine and swelling of the body which develops shorlty after birth. The disorder commonly results in infection, malnutrition and kidney failure." In short, her kidneys are unable to keep protein in her body which her body needs to function, grow, become strong and ward off infections.
Scott and I were honored to be invited to photograph the marking of the one year anniversary Brooklyn's transplant. More importantly, to honor the young lady who lost her life and her family members that had to make the most difficult decision during a tragic time to give the gift of life by donating her organs. Brooklyns' parents, Marlee and Jared, chose to release a dozen butterflies in honor of the donor while surrounded by family.
Brooklyn is now thriving with her new kidney so much that she grew two inches in the month of July and has started preschool. She has an amazing vocabulary and is always on the move. Her bright personality brings a smile to everyone's face.
Butterflies have become a symbol of hope, transformation and rememberance for many in the organ donor and recipient community. Now that you can see what the gift of life through organ donation can do please consider becoming an organ donor yourself. Scott and I have registered to be organ donors and we encourage you to join the movement by going to donatelifeky and registering today. Time to spread your wings and fly.
For a limited time we are offering an in-studio session package for children. Here are the details:
This is an all inclusive package that includes a half hour session in our studio using a classic, high key, white background. We will work to create some real moments with real expressions so you great options for your selection of your enlargement. Your choice will be expertly retouched and printed with archival materials with a 150 print life to be a true family heirloom. The image will be 16x20 with a studio branded border (Studio Walz Photography will appear at the bottom center of the mat) bringing the final presentation to an impressive 24x30 inches. The print will be mounted, lacquered, framed in a clean, matte black frame protected by TruVue glass. The package has a value of over $600.
Wonderful opportunity to capture your child’s photograph and a wonderful offer as well. Book today!
Maybe you thought finding a good photographer will take a lot of time or all photographers are the same. But wait, since your neighbor calls themselves a photographer, you think hmm that’s good enough. Let’s see…cheap…quick…convenient…perfect!
Did you have one of these photographs below with bad lighting, terrible posing not to mention the unprofessional background?
A non-professional headshot says a lot about the person. Oh yes, a picture does say a thousand words.
The benefit of choosing a true professional photographer (not your neighbor, babysitter or coworker) is you will know you are getting a top quality headshot that portrays the image you want the public to see.
Here are some tips:
• Clothing Matters. Choose clothing that that portrays the kind of business you are working in. Potential customer/clients and prospective employers (maybe even a future date) will expect this.
• Location Matters. This means you can’t use that picture of you hamming it up at the last Kentucky Derby party. Sorry, that just doesn’t cut it. One of our professional backgrounds in our studio always works nice or an environmental location free of people and unwanted distractions. You should always be the center of attention of Your headshot.
• Posing Matters. Another reason a true professional photographer is a must. Scott will take several photographs of you in a variety of poses that are best for you.
• Lighting Does Matters. You have probably seen plenty of bad headshots. For example the subject is too dark or too light. Skin color almost non-existent or a nice color of orange. The lighting a so harsh that the cheeks and forehead are just bright white spots. The lighting is coming from above and the subject has eyes that look like a raccoon. We’ve all seen this so please don’t make the same mistake as others. Our headshot shows you in the perfect light.
Now that you are getting the idea of what to do and what not to do let’s include some more.
• A Selfie does not qualify as a headshot. We have all taken a few selfies in our lifetime and others that’s a few million. I know that the lighting in our cars looks good but that’s all that looks good. Just go ahead and hit the delete button if you are thinking of posting it as your latest and greatest headshot.
• The Mugshot. Oh yes, how many times I’ve heard that a coworker volunteered to take a photograph of the subject backed up against a wall. Here we go with all must have’s for a good headshot mentioned earlier in the bad category. The mugshot photo has a bad background, bad lighting (raccoon eyes), bad posing, bad clothing and so on. It’s just plain bad!
• Party Shot. A picture taken at the backyard barbeque with a red Solo cup in hand or with another revelers arm around you. Oh yes, this is when you see a published headshot with someone else’s shoulder in the picture and of course the face is blotchy and the eyes are glassy red.
The moral of this story is just because you think it’s a good picture of yourself does not make it a good headshot. Remember you want to portray your best possible self.
We opened our studio doors to the public on May 12 and haven’t looked back. We had a wonderful week of meeting new customers and catching up with those we have worked with for many years. Just the social aspect of seeing people outside of Kroger’s and Lowe’s, it was awesome!
I want to highlight in this blog the importance of family portraits, not just to mark time but to preserve and cherish the love we have for our families. When Scott photographs a family, whether it’s a three generational family for Father’s Day, an extended family or immediate family, he always captures Love. It’s amazing and I personally love seeing the photos. His portraits are thought provoking and makes you admire the closeness and connectivity that families have.
Here is a sample from long-time clients that shared their day with Scott to photograph their family. They took this opportunity to not only photograph their extended family but each family together creating lifelong memories.
We are excited to announce that Studio Walz will be reopening on May12th. It’s been a long six weeks of being closed to the public although it’s been a time to get caught up on all of our in-studio projects (well almost). We are ready to take your appointments for High School Seniors, Families, Children, Business Portraits and Business 2 Business Sessions.
We will be observing safety protocols that are easy to follow.
Social distancing at all times except for immediate family members.
In-studio sessions are for small and individual appointments.
All monetary transactions will take place via Studio Walz website.
All ordering will take place via the Studio Walz website.
Only one appointment in the studio at a time.
The studio will be cleaned/disinfected between all appointments.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Scott and Valorie
It is difficult to find time to blog but we don’t want you to miss out on these recent high school graduates. Some of these awesome seniors we have photographed all of their lives. What an honor!
Good Luck! #studiowalzseniors
Just want to share a few more high school seniors we have photographed. They will be graduating high school soon and closing one chapter in their lives and beginning the next. We wish them well.
Just wanted to share some of the high school seniors we have photographed during the past school year. As much as I want to blog about each of our seniors’ it’s practically impossible because there is so much to be said about each of them. So to make it easy I’m sharing some of my favorite images. Enjoy!
It’s finally here! Marlee and Jared’s big day! Here a few of the pictures Scott took of them last fall at Shaker Village.
