Facial hair

[minimoya]

From what I hear, I assume that senior portraits are more important to girls than they are to guys. I'm a photographer and I shot senior portraits for the class of 2014 last summer. I plan to do it for my graduating class who will be seniors this coming fall. Yes, I'm a student photographer.

With girls, I've shot practice portraits last year, and a few of them had light lip hair and some barely visible unibrows. I'm trying to make the clearest, prettiest picture when editing the pictures. Lip hair is very difficult to make disappear in editing. Girls, is there a polite way to remind my female clients to remove lip hair or hair between eyebrows?

Thanks a lot!!

Ps. I'll post some of my work later on.

[Harley Quinn]

Girls puberty :arrow: photography considering that's mainly what it's about.

[Bull]

Ps. I'll post some of my work later on.[/QUOTE]

I will be a senior next year and we had to sign a photo release form that said the photo could only be used in the yearbook. Be sure you have permission to post.

[JamesSuperBoy]

Maybe you could just show some pics as an example and just mention your pics are pics are high quality - definition not like say mobile phone pics.

[minimoya]

Some of my work (I did get their permission—they're my friends)

[unknownuser]

Trust me, if girls had visible uni-brow or upper lip hair that they were uncomfortable with, they would have removed it for pictures. I think it might seem kinda rude to them, you a guy, suggesting what they should do. You never know, some girls may like the natural look (it is in right now...) and you could be offending your customers... you don't want that.

I think a good thing to due would be to give out little information cards or send emails before you meet with the person you're photographing and write down tips on how they should dress and how they should look like.
You can say things like, "don't wear insertcolorhere because it doesn't photograph well, don't wear crazy/colorful patterns, if you have blemishes you don't want to show up conceal them..." and stuff like that... You wouldn't be offending anyone, you'd just be giving helpful tips for what photographs best.