Professional Dance Portraits Build Self-Confidence and Create a Timeless Professional Portfolio

Ella Webber (00:00) Sarah Proll is the most comforting and cool experience for photography whether you're being The dance portraits as self-confidence portrait I would say that they create this environment where you are their important subject and no one else in the world matters besides you Hi, my name is Emily Nestor. I work at the YMCA full-time as an Aquatics Director, but I also work part-time teaching dance. And I got my portraits taken to build confidence and start building up my professional portfolio. so I found her first on Instagram and looking at all the portraits, they were all just elegant. Like every time I looked at a picture, I just felt that they were graceful, peaceful, elegant, and I just really wanted to be a part of that. think I'm at the age where I just want to start to figure out what I'm doing with my life career wise and it felt like the perfect stepping stone to know that I can do it and give me that confidence boost. So it was at the time where I needed a little bit of confidence. really nervous to see it because this was the first experience for me to have them in this professional manner. So when I saw them, I was so overcome with like, I was just in awe of everything. I was truly speechless. I was in awe and I like, I felt beautiful on the inside and Yeah, I I saw them and at first I was like dead set of it's a portfolio builder and how they're going to come out is just perfect for what I need. And then I saw them and I was like, I need to have a physical copy of this. I never want these to go away. I want these to be around forever because that's who I am in this moment. And I want to remember that. I showed my best friend Carly and I sent them to her and then we were there in person and she just had her jaw dropped and she was like, that's not you, there's no way. She thought they were like, these are going in a magazine, these are so good. And my mom was just so excited because the last time she had pictures of me really dumb, that was for my senior year high school. So seeing that back, she was just proud to see how far I've come as a person. my photographer is actually so calm, cool, collected the whole time and she really create an environment where I felt comfortable to take that creative freedom because I feel like if you're going in to get your pictures taken, you're looking to be directed. But Delaney really let me put my input into it and really let me express myself. And that was really comforting to have that experience. I would tell anyone that Sarah Paul creates the environment from when you walk in to when you walk out that you are their number one priority, that they are going to do everything they can to make you feel comfortable, confident, and feel really good about yourself. even if you don't want to put them anywhere, if you just want to have them for you, it is the best keepsake you can get at the studio. I'm really grateful just to be able to express myself so openly. I never felt that anything I did was wrong. Like I just, if anything was maybe not looking the best on camera, we just did it again. And like we always had that option to just keep going. So I never felt wrong or out of place.