Senior Pictures for Football Players (2024)

This blog is about senior portraits for football players, but let’s start with what Shipman photograph is not. We aren’t a volume senior photography studio that rushes through multiple clients a day, taking the same photos of everyone at the same places. Our projects are all highly personalized and custom.

Primarily I am a commercial photographer who works with corporate brands on advertising campaigns. My work has been seen on billboards all across the Tulsa area, television commercials, magazine covers and more. We work with professional athletes, recording artists and actors on their branding photography, headshots, album covers and promotional content. If you visit our homepage, you’ll see a lot of examples of what I am talking about. The point is, I do a lot of creative stuff for very picky professional clients, and they rate me 5 stars on social media, google etc. because the work we do at Shipman Photography is in demand. This is not a hobbyist photography company.

A big part of our “Senior Pictures for Football Players” plan is a short session at their stadium. Getting the home field in the shot can really create some magic that you’ll appreciate the further into life and away from your high school football career you go. It will always remind you of teammates, playing days, wins, losses and coaches who made an impact on your life.

For that reason, I always recommend a stadium session and never (as in…. never) charge extra for this. It’s just part of the project as far as I’m concerned. Totally optional, but it’s a great football-centric “casual” shoot. I always have a good time at these, talking to the player about his favorite memories from playing there.

Our studio session are famous for creating anything from simple edgy black and whites to extreme composite scenes that look like they are out of a movie. Photorealistic or purposely surreal, in uniform or not – we really tailor a plan for whatever you think is a cool idea. These sessions are also optional but are also done at no additional charge for our football senior clients.

We can do these on the same day we do another on location shoot. Pretty common for us to wind up back at our climate controlled home studio after a downtown or stadium session to get some cool ideas shot for our football player seniors.

If you’re a parent reading this, you might have several questions by this point. It sounds great, but how does it work? How much is it? How booked up are you? Excellent questions! For us, “Senior Pictures for Football Players” means we do custom work for clients who don’t want “good enough” or ordinary. It means we really specialize not only in terms of the content we create, but in terms of how we relate to your senior guys and perhaps even more importantly, to you – the parents. The first thing we tell our guys is “do it for your mom.”

1. Free consultation. We do this in studio or over the phone, and it’s a chance to get to know more about your senior’s personality. It helps us build a shooting plan and schedule, and helps you feel comfortable with your choice of Shipman Photography for your senior portraits.

2. No obligation to book, but if you do, the booking fee is $175. This covers holding the date(s) for: location, stadium and studio. My time to conduct those shoots and prepare a proof gallery is also covered. If traveling outside the Tulsa Metro area, mileage may be charged, but we would discuss that beforehand.

3. Photography. Generally we shoot outside in the hour before sunset. I don’t clock watch and try to shoot every good idea we have. Once all the shooting has been done, we schedule a gallery review.

4. The gallery review typically takes place in your home, and while it is a sales meeting, it’s a very low pressure one. For starters, you will not be asked to pick out your selections that night, because chances are we’ll show you over 100 proofs that you’ll love and have a hard time choosing between them. We do look at packages and discuss your budget and try to build you a custom package you can fill out with selections at your leisure. Package average is $1200. We can send more specific package and pricing information to you upon request, including information on budget focused mini-sessions.

5. Once you have made your selections, we fully retouch and edit as much or as little as needed and post the full sized digital master files to a downloadable gallery for you. We also set up an online print-ordering system for your selections from an excellent online print vendor at our own wholesale cost with no mark up ($2.40 for an 8×10 for example), and you can order prints this way as needed with no time limits.

6. The images in your order are satisfaction guaranteed! Rarely do we need to do a re-edit or additional work once we post an image in an order gallery, but if we ever do, we always accommodate our client’s requests and make sure they love each and every image like the family heirlooms they are.

Contact us today for more info! Senior Pictures for Football Players aren’t “all” we do, but they are absolutely a speciality!