Photographer in Roanoke

Barry Brooks and his familial team of professional shutterbugs memorialize life's fleeting moments in an expansive, 5,000-square-foot studio. Up to five people can pose in Barry's portrait space, which easily accommodates starting basketball lineups and quadruplets with a friend. The proud owners of cool cars or robots that transform into cool cars can comfortably strike a pose in the 32'x50' commercial shooting room featuring a garage door entrance.

Heather Turner converted her passion for photography into a successful business, drawing inspiration from her photographer grandfather. In addition to photographing her own daughters, Turner captures colorful portraits of babies, kids, families, mothers-to-be, and brides. She then distributes digital images and prints in black and white or color, which can be framed and placed artfully atop mantles, grand pianos, or chocolate frosted sheet cakes.

Blue Hill Photography’s camera wizards wield the latest equipment to shoot classic, traditional, and modern portraits in crisp detail and color. They work with couples, families, newborns, high-school seniors, and businesses. For special events such as weddings, they send two photographers to ensure all the excitement and emotions are documented for generations to come.

With a penchant for harnessing the beauty of natural light, Debbie Moore says she never leaves her house without her Nikon DSLR. She has more than 20 years of experience snapping photos and documents occasions such as weddings and birthday parties with the same attentive eye that captures portraits for families, children, high-school seniors, pets, and boudoir series. Debbie can host shoots in her studio or travel to clients' chosen locations, leading engaging alfresco sessions with her passion for the outdoors and her ability to control the sun.

A lifelong passion for art and the beauty of nature led Robert Ranson to a professional life behind the camera, a career that has been gaining momentum for eight years running. His images have graced stock-photo collections, a national sporting magazine, the cover of a published novel, and the set of Modern Family. In addition to commercial work, Robert has a knack for capturing countenances during family portraits, weddings, and cartwheeling marathons. Robert also has a zeal for travel, which has led to stunning stills from exotic locations including the Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos, and South Africa.

Armed with an army of innovative and certified shutterbugs, Olan Mills Portrait Studio provides families with high-quality portraits, continuing a mission that was established more than 75 years ago by founder Olan Mills Sr. Skilled in the art of capturing infants, children, families, and bunny-ears-giving ghost orbs on film, Olan Mills’s experienced smile snappers will take a series of poses amid a variety of backgrounds and lighting options. The studio is equipped with a selection of props—including numbers for birthdays, toys, and boxes—and patrons may bring their own photo-enlivening items from home. The resulting photos find their way to prints in natural color, black and white, or sepia tones; they can also be immortalized in the studio's signature Old Masters style, a canvas brushed with highlights to recreate look of an oil painting. Like the gentlemanly mariners of ages past with their full schedule of sea-battles, the photographers welcome appointments, but do not require them.