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UPDATE: Although I primarily focus on writing these days, I still take the occasional photography client. I now operate under the business name Hill Press. You can find out about my recent work on my updated business sites: www.juliasoplop.com and www.hillpressbooks.com
Calm Cradle Photo & Design offers lifestyle photography (newborn, maternity & family portraits) in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Pittsboro, Durham, Raleigh, Cary, Apex and surrounding areas of North Carolina. Photographer Julia Soplop is a visual storyteller who specializes in using natural light to create documentary-style images.
What is lifestyle photography?
Lifestyle photography is about storytelling. It combines fine arts and documentary styles to capture authentic moments, relationships and sense of place. Every individual or family has its own story—many of them, really. Each day, each activity, each dynamic between family members represents its own story. Where do you hang out as a family? Your yard, the park, the farmers market? How do you spend your time? Hiking, playing chess, baking cookies?
Unlike traditional portraiture, which often involves the photographer directing subjects to pose in particular ways and locations that may not feel natural or memorable, lifestyle photography strives to catalog moments or activities of significance to clients. That doesn't mean we can't take some classic portraits. But perhaps it means taking those portraits sitting on the crumbling brick wall you walk by every day on your way home. Or wading in the creek that runs through your backyard. Or relaxing on the back porch where you eat dinner each night.
Lifestyle photography documents honest moments and places them in context to tell a story. Everyone has a story. Let me tell yours.
Calm Cradle Photo & Design offers lifestyle photography (newborn, maternity & family portraits) in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Pittsboro, Durham, Raleigh, Cary, Apex and surrounding areas of North Carolina. Photographer Julia Soplop is a visual storyteller who specializes in using natural light to create documentary-style images.
What is lifestyle photography?
Lifestyle photography is about storytelling. It combines fine arts and documentary styles to capture authentic moments, relationships and sense of place. Every individual or family has its own story—many of them, really. Each day, each activity, each dynamic between family members represents its own story. Where do you hang out as a family? Your yard, the park, the farmers market? How do you spend your time? Hiking, playing chess, baking cookies?
Unlike traditional portraiture, which often involves the photographer directing subjects to pose in particular ways and locations that may not feel natural or memorable, lifestyle photography strives to catalog moments or activities of significance to clients. That doesn't mean we can't take some classic portraits. But perhaps it means taking those portraits sitting on the crumbling brick wall you walk by every day on your way home. Or wading in the creek that runs through your backyard. Or relaxing on the back porch where you eat dinner each night.
Lifestyle photography documents honest moments and places them in context to tell a story. Everyone has a story. Let me tell yours.
Meet Julia Soplop
I received my first camera as a gift for my seventh birthday and have been shooting ever since. There is something profound in bearing witness to moments of joy and pain in others’ lives. I’ve studied journalism, documentary and fine arts photography at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies, Corcoran College of Art + Design, Studio Vermès in Paris and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. But most of my experience comes from more than 25 years of observing and capturing the world around me through a lens. My photos have appeared in a variety of publications and exhibitions. I hold a bachelor’s in French from Duke University and a master’s in medical journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill. My proudest accomplishments are—hands down—my three tiny daughters. We live in the woods outside of Chapel Hill, NC, and sometimes, when we’re really lucky, in the Colorado Rockies. When not photographing or writing, I'm usually hiking, biking, skiing or undertaking some crazy home improvements (or just being a mom in sweatpants changing diapers). Click here to read about my privacy policy. |
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