Allie Serrano is a Tampa-area portrait photographer who focuses on branding and boudoir. She lately caught up with Nikki Closser on The Portrait System Podcast to speak about her enterprise and why she has made the choice to work out of a house studio for the previous seven years.
Serrano was born within the former Czech Republic in what’s now referred to as Czechia. She moved to the US when she was 18. For a few years, Serrano was a images hobbyist, taking images on the weekends as she developed her craft. Then all of a sudden, in 2016, her greatest pal unexpectedly handed away from a mind aneurysm in her sleep. This tragic loss prompted Serrano to deeply query her life’s path and inspired her to give attention to residing in a extra significant approach. In contemplating what would make her actually blissful, Serrano realized it was time to get critical about images.
Over the course of her enterprise, Serrano has had 4 completely different house studios that exemplify a few of the some ways to do it. To start, she used a easy backdrop that she might arrange as wanted in her front room. In her subsequent area, she devoted two rooms in her house to images – one held the reveal wall and had area for hair and make-up. The opposite was her everlasting studio arrange with backdrops and lighting. Her earlier area was very best with two bedrooms and a kitchenette devoted to her studio. Sadly, it was a rental and the proprietor determined to promote, so Serrano wanted to search out one other area rapidly.
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Her present studio is in a house she and her accomplice bought in Apollo Seashore, Florida, close to Tampa. To start with she had a devoted room in it, however she is quickly letting her nephew keep there. This places Serrano again to establishing her front room when she sees purchasers, that’s, when she is not taking her many actual property purchasers on location for shoots. Serrano says the realtors she works with, “wish to be outdoors with the blue sky, with the waterfront properties. . . That is what [they] wish to showcase more often than not.”
When capturing in her house lounge, Serrano has the problem of juggling roommates throughout shoots. If a consumer has cat allergy symptoms, her cats spend time on the lanai through the session and Serrano does a deep cleansing beforehand. If it’s a boudoir shoot, her nephew and boyfriend take a day in town to offer them numerous area and privateness. Whereas having a house portrait studio comes with some challenges, Serrano is devoted to maintaining one in the intervening time. With Tampa space enterprise area leases beginning at $2,500, the economics make maintaining a house studio an enormous benefit.
To study extra about Serrano’s enterprise, go to Allie Serrano Portraits.
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