Elisa Elgstrom Photography

Elisa, tell us about your business?

I specialize in natural light documentary style photography for families, children and newborns and I love it! I believe in it because it is authentic and meaningful and photographs should tell the story of your loved ones. Whether happy, sad, funny, exhausting or exhilarating. A chocolate covered mouth, a sweet hug, or the precious bath time ritual before bed. These seemingly ordinary moments are what you are more likely to emotionally connect to when you look back on them.

Why did You start a photography business?

I started my business because I believe that people are so busy these days that the precious little moments within families disappear in a flash. Wouldn't it be wonderful to look back on them in years to come and remember exactly how you were and what you felt on a typical day in your family’s life? I love helping my clients freeze these moments forever as a keepsake for generations to come.

What solutions do you offer?

I offer packages as part of my service, which makes it very easy for clients as I know how busy parents are these days. They receive digital photographs, an online gallery, images in color and B&W as well as the option of print products like photo books.

How is your photography different?

I feel that posed photography may very well have its place, but there is a new wave of image making that is hitting our streets. Real life captured just as it is. I make pictures that don’t require you to say cheese or sit in an uncomfortably awkward position. I pretty much hang out with you while I snap away and create natural light photographs of you and your loved ones while you go about your day. And that could be an image as simple as your children waiting impatiently for their next serve of Sunday morning pancakes.