Nashville senior portraits that don’t look like everyone else’s.
Every senior in Middle Tennessee gets photographed against the same three things. A brick wall downtown, a field at golden hour, and the backdrop the school rolls out in the gym. Nothing wrong with any of them, except that four hundred other seniors have the exact same photo. Here the background is a screen with more than two hundred options on it, so the portrait can look like your kid’s actual life instead of a template.
One session. Every version of them.
Pick a backdrop that means something
The stadium lights if football was the whole four years. A stage if it was theater. A library, a garage, a city street at night, a wall of color that matches nothing except their personality. Bring an image on your phone and we can put it up behind them. Seniors usually walk in with an idea already, which makes this the easiest session we do.
Bring the jersey, the instrument, the whole thing
Props are encouraged. Letterman jacket, cleats, the trumpet, the welding helmet, the acceptance letter, the truck keys. Multiple outfits are fine and worth doing, because wardrobe is the slow part of any session and the backdrop takes seconds. Come with things on hangers and ready to go.
Cap and gown, and the photos the school will not take
The school handles the official yearbook headshot and that one is usually non negotiable. This is the other set. The one that goes in graduation announcements, on the party board, in the frame your grandmother keeps on the piano. Cap and gown works fine here. So does the version where they are dressed like themselves and not like a graduate.
Five minutes, because eighteen year olds have a limit
The shooting window is sixty seconds and you are in and out in about five minutes. No two hour location shoot, no driving between spots, no losing the light while somebody changes clothes in a car. For a teenager who agreed to this under mild protest, being finished before they get self conscious is the difference between good photos and clenched ones.
Parents and siblings can jump in
Up to eight people fit in the frame. Most senior sessions end with a couple of family shots, because everyone is already here and already dressed. It is the cheapest family portrait you will ever get, and in a year or two you will be glad you took it.
When to book
Most Nashville families do senior portraits the summer before senior year or early in the fall, ahead of announcement deadlines. If you have missed that window it barely matters here, because there is no season to chase and no daylight to lose. The room works exactly the same in January as it does in September.
What it costs
The session is free. You walk in, we shoot, and you look at the frames before you leave. Basic is $99 for a single image. Standard is $249 for five. Premium is $499 for everything from the session. No sitting fee, no minimum order, no package you have to choose before you have seen a photo. If your senior hates all of them, you owe us nothing.
Where to find us in Franklin
The studio is inside The Factory at Franklin, at 230 Franklin Road, Suite 11BB, Franklin, TN 37064. That is a short drive south of downtown Nashville and an easy one from Brentwood, Cool Springs, Spring Hill, Nolensville, and Thompson’s Station. Open Monday through Saturday from 10 to 6, and Sunday from 12 to 5. Call (615) 429-4037 or email hello@portraitlab.co to book your Nashville senior portrait session.
