karen forsythe photography: South Suburban Chicago Portrait Photographer » contemporary portrait photography for you, your family and your business

Masthead header

Category Archives: head shots

Sticking her neck out

Lara ready for her audition!

If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you’ll have noticed that one of the things I am very interested in is acting and the stage.  Not because I do it though.  It’s because my kids do it, and wanting to be there for them, I’ve come to love what goes on behind the…

Read more »

Headshots for Social Services

IMG_1949-Edit

Nowadays, with the economy such that it is, life is hard for many people…and social service agencies like Bethany Christian Services are working hard to meet the needs of young women in crisis pregnancies, families (Bethany has an incredible Safe Families program!), and children.  Bethany is a leader in international adoption, and a prototype for…

Read more »

A myriad of faces

IMG_0083-Edit

To be competitive these days in photography, not only does the photographer have to know the difference between an F-stop and a bus stop (I stole that from Bambi Cantrell), and put it into practice, but also really how to manage light.  I’ve posted before about this a couple of times.  Photons are photons, and…

Read more »

The King and I: headshots and groupshots

IMG_0291sm

This weekend, the Chicago Heights Drama Group will perform the age-old classic musical, The King and I… I remember this wonderful story from my childhood, with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner.  Great music, and so much fun.  I love the scene when the King wants Anna to always be a little lower than he is…he…

Read more »

Women of a certain age..

SueGagepost

I’m one of them too, a woman of a certain age.  Our kids are older, maybe even grown…and our faces show it.  But our photographs don’t have to show every line, do they?  Joe McNally, in his book The Moment it Clicks, tells his secret to photographing us, using as an example his photo session…

Read more »

H e a d s h o t s
F a c e b o o k
S e a r c h
N e w s l e t t e r