Top 9 Portrait Photographers in Tacoma, WA

People tend to put a lot of emphasis on a formal family portrait. Because that portrait is more than just an image of people. It is a moment frozen in time, and reflects the relationship between the souls in that image. A portrait image many years from now becomes treasured possession, a memory made manifest.

Portrait photography is more than just focusing and clicking the shutter button. It requires a good understanding of lighting and above all how to capture the personality of the individual being photographed. In the beautiful state of Washington, Tacoma fields a number of modern portrait professionals ready to collaborate with you and yours.

Ready to start your search for portrait photographers in Tacoma? Check out this list of some of the city's top talent to find the best match for your portraiture.

Sara Heinrichs Portraiture

Sara is the face, heart, and soul of the photography business Sara Heinrichs Portraiture. She has been photographing in the Tacoma, WA area for several years now and loves photographing people. It is thus no wonder that portrait photography is one of her main service offerings.

Sara is predominantly a studio photographer for portraiture. In-studio, she works hard to figure out the right lighting, perspectives, and aspects of a person's personality within the frame.

Tacoma Headshots

Tacoma Headshots is an established portrait and headshots studio. They have been in business for many years now and specialize in headshots and on-location portraits.

The studio primarily shoots indoor portraits and headshots, in a customizable studio environment. However, they are also willing to travel and take their set up to any location you prefer.

Tacoma Headshots employ some of the most talented portrait and headshot photographers in all of Washington state.

Amanda Howse Photography 

Amanda is the founder and the lead photographer at Amanda Howse Photography. As one of the most gifted natural light photographers you will come across in Tacoma, she primarily shoots weddings but also performs an excellent portrait photography business.

Running her studio for over 17 years now, Amanda takes the same philosophy with weddings and portraiture – she wants to get to know your story so that she can capture it.

Bluebonnet Photography

Tamara is the face behind the company and also the lead photographer. She established Bluebonnet Photography as a fine art creative photography studio. She specializes in a dreamy, artistic representation of subjects to produce surreal and eye-catching portrait imagery.

Tamara has an amazing sense of posing and lighting, two aspects that can make or break a portrait image. Her belief is that portraits of people should appear as fine art, with the gorgeousness of the subject and their environment melding together in a beautiful way.

Seldom Seen Photography

Seldom Seen Photography is a Tacoma-based portrait, lifestyle, and landscape photography studio.

Joe Becker is lead photographers and also offers workshops on the craft, in addition to writing blogs on photography topics. His portfolio features a classic dose of portraiture of smiling faces in structured environments.

Joe's images of all kinds can be bought as prints or licensed as stock photos for businesses.

Riandi Photography

Riandi Photography was founded and is led by photographer Tonya Jackson. She is a specialist for portraits and headshots and works best in-studio. Portraiture with the controlled setup of the Riandi studio produces stellar results which can be viewed in online galleries.

The studio has carved a name for itself as one of the best photography studios in Tacoma. They are available to travel throughout the USA for any portrait or headshot project.

Ewings Photography

Caleb Ewings in the face and the heart and soul of Ewings Photography. Established in 2019, the studio's mantra is simple: the world without photography would be meaningless.

Working on his craft since the age of 18, Caleb is now a husband and father over 10 years later serving the community of Tacoma with top notch portraiture. His studio's work is diverse and stunning, with posed and candid portraits within his gallery.

M. Laine Photography

One of the things that set apart M. Laine Photography from the rest of the portrait and lifestyle studios is their attention to detail when choosing a location as the background for their photos. They are experts in on-location portrait photography and the backgrounds are simply stunning.

If you ever wanted a large canvas print of one of your photos, one of the portraits shot by M. Laine Photography can supply it. They make expert use of natural colors and post-process subtly to bring out the richness and contrast in every photo.

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