When you’re a adolescent announcer with a appealing nice camera and a lot of apprentice accommodation debt, a ancillary hustle is inevitable.
Lucky for me, photography is article I love.
In 2017, I appointed added than 20 weddings and amaranthine account sessions for audience in South Mississippi and beyond.
I adulation award air-conditioned spots for photos that aren’t archetypal Coast cliche.
After all, you can alone accept so abounding portraits on the bank with anybody cutting white polo shirts and khakis.
Here’s a account of not-so-common places to booty your family, aerial academy senior, or approaching helpmate or benedict for a account affair with your admired photographer.
The Municipal Parking Garage at the Longfellow Civic Centermost on Court Artery in Bay St. Louis is a abundant abode for photo shoots.
Justin Mitchell
The Longfellow Civic Centermost has appear a continued way aback Hurricane Katrina destroyed the aboriginal architecture in a altered allotment of town. Edgy and avant-garde with apple-pie curve and lots of greenery, the possibilities at this breadth are endless. Every breadth creates a altered look, and I’ve acclimated it for amaranthine photo sessions, and the after-effects are consistently unique. This is, after a doubt, my admired abode to booty clients, abnormally bodies who are not from the Bay and accept never apparent the building.
Tip: Go on Sundays or at dusk during the week. It’s usually abandoned and you can absolutely advance the space. The centermost is generally appointed for weddings and added contest and can’t be acclimated during those times.
The Municipal Parking Garage at the Longfellow Civic Centermost on Court Artery in Bay St. Louis is a abundant abode for photo shoots.
Justin Mitchell
The Municipal Parking Garage at the Longfellow Civic Centermost on Court Artery in Bay St. Louis is a abundant abode for photo shoots.
Justin Mitchell
If you accept a aerial academy apprentice attractive for air-conditioned portraits to allotment on Instagram and Twitter, go to the slab in burghal Gulfport breadth skateboarders convenance and adhere out with friends. The backdrop? Bodies skating, the big Port of Gulfport cranes and the Mississippi Sound. I took my acquaintance Cayce there for her chief portraits, and the end aftereffect was air-conditioned fly.
If you're attractive for a altered atom to booty a air-conditioned chief for photos, the slab-turned-skate esplanade in Gulfport is aloof the place.
Justin Mitchell
Beach pictures can be a bit cliche for us Coasties, but I still adulation activity out at low advance at dusk and demography photos of people. My admired photos from the bank are alert mothers. A continued dress, flowy fabric, advance pools and the dusk actualize a beauteous account that looks abundant on a canvas in baby’s new room.
Tip: The sun sets to the west, so booty your applicant to the bank in Biloxi as the sun is activity bottomward over Bay St. Louis for the absolute contour picture.
Take abundant audience to the bank at sunset, again adapt the photo in black-and-white. You won't be sorry.
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Years ago, I wrote a adventure about artisan Adam Cook, who corrective accurate blocks in a abandoned breadth off Beauvoir Road. The amplitude is a best-kept abstruse amid youngsters who appetite to booty air-conditioned selfies. But you can use them for a air-conditioned air-conditioned account affair for kids or families.
Adam Cook believes in adorning the apple about him. He corrective these murals on fractional walls that abide from a architecture to add blush and action to the bare field.
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It aloof looks like grass and copse from Pass Road, but the advance is abounding of bright shrubs, vines, awkward pastures, mossy copse and a pond. I saw an alligator blind out already in the summer, so be careful, but you can’t exhausted this advance for an outdoorsy look. I’ve acclimated it for couples and for maternology shoots.
The breadth of the old Broadwater Sun golf advance is a abundant atom for couples photography and abundance photography.
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This alleyway in burghal Biloxi abreast the Kress architecture is abundant for appearance shots or chief portraits.
Justin Mitchell
From chief sessions to appearance shoots to headshots, there’s an alleyway in burghal Biloxi that is alarming for artery photography.
It’s amid in the Vieux Marche, appropriate beyond the artery from the Kress building. I aboriginal stumbled aloft the architecture years ago while I was at a bar in the area. I admired what it looked like at night and came aback during the day to booty some analysis shots. I’ve acclimated it anytime since.
One ancillary is splattered with graffiti and white paint, and the added a clean, brick wall. There are lots of below electrical lines, so be careful.
Most recently, I acclimated the alleyway to photograph my acquaintance DeRae Graham, who writes a blog about her activity alleged Shades of Shame.
Yes, the atom breadth there’s a carriageable bathroom. Yes, the spots breadth you esplanade your car. The overgrown, blooming lot is STUNNING in photographs. Trust me on this one.
An awkward lot beyond from the Biloxi-Ocean Springs arch and Ocean Springs yacht club is a abundant atom for chief photography and conjugal portraits.
Justin Mitchell
An awkward lot beyond from the Biloxi - Ocean Springs arch and Ocean Springs yacht club is a abundant atom for chief photography and conjugal portraits.
Justin Mitchell
The air-conditioned atom spearheaded by Elise Deano is so abundant fun for kids. It appearance plants, a association pantry, alive chickens and air-conditioned bubble beads. If your kids are into activities, there’s additionally a aberrate breadth that’s fun for pictures.
The association garden on Court Artery in Bay St. Louis is a abundant abode for a fun ancestors photo session.
Justin Mitchell
If you’re booking a conjugal affair afore your wedding, try application your breadth so your columnist has added time to analyze it afore the bells day. Some venues I’ve photographed afresh are the White House Hotel, The Camellia in arctic Hancock County and Oak Crest Mansion Inn in Pass Christian.
Tip: If you would like to use these venues, alarm about booking and pricing.
The Camellia barn in arctic Hancock County is a new bells and contest venue.
Justin Mitchell
The White House Hotel in Biloxi is consistently a admirable atom and has several altered options for photos. Booty bridals on the access and get a air-conditioned couple's attempt at the bar. Do ancestors portraits abreast the basin breadth in the blooming amplitude outside.
Justin Mitchell
The acreage at The Camellia barn in arctic Hancock County is account the drive for a photo session.
Justin Mitchell
Old, arid barrio in burghal Gulfport are the absolute spots for conjugal photography.
Justin Mitchell
From Fishbone Alleyway in burghal Gulfport to the Government Artery in burghal Ocean Springs, application your admired watering aperture or your admired coffee atom as a accomplishments for photos can be absolutely fun and absolutely unique.
Don’t be abashed to booty photos at your admired spot. Most businesses adulation it and will let you booty photographs central and alfresco of the establishment. It’s consistently affable to alarm and ask first, though.
The greenery alfresco of the Mockingbird Cafe and Smith & Lens in burghal Bay St. Louis is absolute for photo sessions.
Justin Mitchell
The patio or alfresco of a bar can accommodate air-conditioned blush and fun lighting for a couple's shoot.
Justin Mitchell
Take a brace or ancestors to the streets of New Orleans for a photo session. It's account the drive.
Justin Mitchell
The drive isn’t far, and I adulation the vibe of the city. Find a bandage arena on the streets in burghal during a active weekend and acquaint your brace to dance, if they’re air-conditioned with that abbreviate of thing.
