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  • "Kansas City's favorite portrait studio."

    If for any reason you are not 100% satisfied with your pictures from Portraits Today Studios we will re-shoot or refund you money. It's really that simple.

    Located in Kansas City's southwest suburbs in Olathe, just a half mile east of I-35 on Santa Fe, Portraits Today Studios is gaining a reputation as Kansas City's favorite portrait studio. With an emphasis on friendly service and quality professional photography at a family price the positive word-of-mouth just keeps spreading. C'mon in and give us a try. You will be glad you did.

Pet Portrait Event Here At Portraits Today Studios

Portraits Today Studios of Olathe is offering a Pet Portrait Event on July 31st.  See the details below and don’t hesitate to book your appointment soon.  We are only offering this event on July 31st.  Thank you.  Click HERE to print this flier for the valuable coupons.

We hope you will enjoy this pet photography event as much as we will.

Pet photography.  Meow.
Portraits Today Studios
2081 E Santa Fe
Olathe, KS  66062
913.782.7427

How To Photograph Children

Children are full of energy and wonder.  Children bring a never ending stream of smiles to our face as  we watch them discover, explore and grow.  Photographing children, however, can be a bit of a challenge.  From about 18 months thru to 4-6 years old asking a child to sit still and pose is a battle lost more than won.  So it is our belief here at Portraits Today Studios that you should work with children, not against them.

When you are trying to photograph your children may we recommend zoomed lenses and a since of “spy” from you?  After all, children this age change when they see the camera.  They get the “forced smile” or the “shyness” from nowhere.  They want to take and use the camera rather than be it’s subject.

But try something different.  The next time your kids are at play around the house or school or the neighborhood park quietly take out your camera (point and shoot or DSLR, doesn’t matter) and zoom in as close as you can to them and shoot.  Get up, walk around and maybe put your camera on the “head” setting.  But don’t let them know you are there!  Enlist the help of your spouse to keep their attention.  You’ll love the difference you’ll get in your pictures of him or her.

Did you get a great snap shot?  Tell us about it!  Post it to our facebook page and do a little parental bragging.  Go ahead.  You know you want to. :)

Photo Tips from PTS
Portraits Today Studios
2081 E Santa Fe
Olathe, KS  66062
913.782.7427

Olathe Youth Baseball City Championship

Find your Olathe City Championship baseball photos here.

I have emailed your coach the password.

Last night I had the privilege to photograph the Olathe City Championship baseball game between the Westside Sluggers and the Midwest Tornados.  After a hard fought game by both teams the Tornados came away with the championship.  But the info I got is that both teams had an outstanding season.

Portraits Today Studios sponsors the Westside Sluggers baseball team and so we were there to provide professional sports photography to them for the Olathe championships.  We all grow up loving baseball.  I wish I had had a photographer take action photos of me that would spark memories all these years later.  (One did when I was a soccer goalie.  I was making a great stop and every time I see the photo it brings a smile to my face!)

If you are ever in need of professional sports photography anywhere in the Kansas City area we would love to help you.  We do sports action with an emphasis on football, baseball, la cross and soccer.  We do team photography for all sorts of teams.  (And our martial arts and dance photography is pretty cool, too, if I do have to say so myself.) :)

Kansas City Sports & Dance Photography
Portraits Today Studios
2081 E Santa Fe
Olathe, KS  66062
913.782.7427

By the way, we are finally setting up a separate facebook page for our Kansas City Sports & Dance Photography division and we’d love to have you “Like Us.”

Senior Picture Variables

Senior Pictures are fun to produce.  Why?  Because of the variables involved.  (Major digression coming.)  When Garth Brooks was at the height of his fame he said he loved music because with a change here and there the song could take on a whole new meaning.  Then he proceeded to play one of his hits with a completely new guitar riff and in a tempo I hadn’t heard before.  Boom!  The song had a different interpretation.

The same can be said about photography.  With the proliferation of good, low cost digital cameras literally anyone can snap a good picture.  And with a little training with lights you can become a fairly decent photographer.  But still, to come up with lasting, memorable images you have to be able to see things in your mind and then take those images from the mind to the paper.

Look at these two senior pictures taken last week.  This young lady is a very vibrant girl.  But look how the story changes when we make two very different portraits from the same image.

Pretty cool, eh?  Which do you like better?  Same image. Two different stories.  At least as far as I’m concerned.

Senior Pictures.
Portraits Today Studios
2081 E Santa Fe
Olathe, KS  66062
913.782.7427

Make a Memory Today

Your memories, today.
Portraits Today Studios
2081 E Santa Fe
Olathe, KS  66062
913.782.7427

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