Wingaersheek Beach Family Portrait Session

GLOUCESTER FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHER

 
As a kid, Wingaersheek Beach in Gloucester was a place to be enjoyed for its far-reaching low tides on those endless summer days. As a dad, Wingaersheek has been a place to share those childhood experiences with my wife and daughter, creating new memories of our own. And as a photographer, Wingaersheek provides a wonderful natural stage for portrait sessions, whether they be family portraits, senior portraits, or an engagement session. Being a place of possibilites, a Wingaersheek Beach family portrait session can become much more than taking pictures just along the surf and sand. If we time your session right, you’ll experience those amazing low tides, exposing a gorgeous backdrop of boulders and tidal pools to incorporate in our images. There’s also the sand dunes, with a pathway or two available to explore through the grasses, making for very different scenery just a short walk away. It’s just a great location for variety in your beach pictures.

I met these two sisters, their parents, along with one of the sister’s boyfriend, for a late day session — always the best time for beach sessions. We visited many of the above spots at Wingaersheek, and this is one of the reasons I prefer shooting with natural light. For my sessions, I do not bring along lights to set up and take down for each setup, which gives us the benefit of mobility and being able to explore more ground in our session window. Natural light sessions are great for capturing not only posed family shots, but because we are agile and can move about, this approach to photography is ideal for capturing motion, candids, and spontaneity because we are able to let energy and group interactions guide us, rather than being anchored to a light setup. Natural light photography is particularly suited for the little ones — we all know they’re not going sit still for long in one spot.

If you are interested in learning more about my approach to natural light photography for your portraits or scheduling a Wingaersheek Beach Family Session, please do get in touch!