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Grad Session Tips

Tips & tricks to help you prepare for your grad session.

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Preparing for Your Grad Session.

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These are just suggestions so don’t take them as hard rules.

Preparation

• Get enough sleep 💤 & take care the night before. It’s important to get plenty of rest the day before your session and that you hydrated, so you feel refreshed for your photos. Also, please be sure to eat something before the shoot. You do not want to start your session on an empty stomach.

Clothing

• Keep it simple! You're the focus of the photos. The main subject should be you — not your clothes.

• Choose light colors and tones to contrast with your stole and robe. Graduation stoles and robes are typically darker and more intense with color, so it helps to have a lighter base.

• Avoid plaid, polka dots, stripes and any imagery on your clothing.

• Please iron/steam and hang your clothes the day before to prevent wrinkles.

• Do not wait until the day of your session to remove the stole from the package. It will have fold lines.

• If you have your stole, I highly recommend actually wearing it with your clothes to see if it matches.

• Bring a sweater to the shoot, it will be cold at shady areas of campus.

Footwear & Accessories

• If you decide to wear heels, please bring flip-flops. We will be walking around campus a lot, and it will definitely help.

• Jewelry: Feel free to bring necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings, etc. to your session.

• Glasses: If you wear glasses, they will have a glare. If anything, you can take them off.

OH HEY, FOR BEST VIEWING, YOU'LL NEED TO TURN YOUR PHONE