Mobile Photographer Takes Her Work on the Road

Owner and photographer of Fort Worth Photography, she worked with several photography studios serving a variety of clients before venturing out on her own. She said she wanted to build her session packages around everyone’s needs without losing the quality of the finished product or the customer service. Her family photography sessions can be natural style studio background, on-location (just about anywhere), a near by park, or your home.

The Botanical Gardens session is everyone’s favorite, said Teague on her website, fortworthphotography.com.

“Location photography allows you to choose the style you want for your portrait,” said Teague. “Clothing is important but should not be the attention of your portrait. Nothing shows off your child’s smile or brings back special memories like a portrait album placed on your coffee table.”

Teague sells leather craft albums (which includes a free engraving) and Renaissance and she designs a magazine style album that is binded by a company.

On wedding days she is at the wedding at least one hour prior to the ceremony to take pictures of the bridal party. She even provides engagement sessions and a free engagement or bridal session comes with any wedding package.

Teague holds a weekly contest for people to win an 8 x 10 color custom portrait and you can sign up on her site.

“If you have never had an outdoor portrait before, you are in for a treat,” said Teague.

Teague started out doing photography in high school but said she never really thought about it too much.

She moved to Texas from Colorado and started working for a few family studios including a wedding studio. Her daughter had so many doctor appointments when she was a baby that Teague couldn’t work full-time any more. A friend of hers offered her help if she wanted to open her own photography business.

Teague said 99 percent of her business is from word of mouth and that she hasn’t really done any advertising but keeps really busy.

“Basically the best way I started is just working for other studios,” she said. “I tried opening up a small studio in the back of a children’s boutique but I closed it down and started working out of my home again. Any time you get money from a big wedding you invest it back into your business. I’m constantly re-investing in new equipment.”

Teague, who started her business four years ago, does a lot of location shoots and says anything she can shoot, she’ll do. She goes to a lot of people’s homes on holidays, especially Christmas and recently took a trip to California.

“My style has changed since I first got into it,” said Teague. “I think when you work for studios they tell you how to shoot. What I’ve discovered especially with doing my kids is that you just let them go. There is no rhyme or reason. Your creativity is your own. You learn a little bit from each shot. A lot of people just see my style as just very relaxed. I let the kids crawl around and do their own thing. It always captures their natural expressions. At a typical sitting they may have you out in 15 minutes whereas if I have a child whose very wild I take my time.”

She takes a ton of pictures of her daughter, Devyn now six, and does all of her business while she’s in school.

“She likes me being home but she has a hard time realizing that Mom still has to work and can’t play with her 24 hours a day,” said Teague. “She’s really gotten spoiled as far as having a stay-at-home mom. She loves getting her picture made and is amazed by them. I let her pick what she wants to wear for shots and she picks out what she wants to do.”

Teague does a lot of personal consultations where customers will call her and she’ll find out what kind of family they have, their personality; etc. She said her goal is to open a wedding reception chapel site where people can have their wedding outdoors.

“If you’re just getting into wedding photography you see a lot of this,” she said. “I just know that I have this great eye for putting things together, organizing, stuff like that. I love doing weddings and I love photography so I’m going to try to do a little bit of both. I definitely want an outdoor location.”

Teague won a Small Camera Club award from Lockheed Martin awhile back and did a CD cover for Ginnie Mack, a young girl in Azle who made a country music album.

For more information, call 817-909-1121.