See all our photo packages Here. Your photos will be ready to view and download with in 24 to 48 hours after your session. All photos are professionally edited using custom color profiles we created just for our images no own else has.

Orange Beach Family Photographer

As your Orange Beach photographer you will get Ed Morgan a award winning beach photographer. We do not sub contract out jobs like many other places do. We shoot and edit are own images.

Orange Beach offers some great locations for family beach portraits like the Orange Beach Point. We cover the areas of Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, and the Fort Morgan Area. See our Fort Morgan website Here and are Orange Beach Website Here.

What to expect for your Orange beach photography session with us

• Bright clear high-resolution photos
• Professionally edited photos ready to print.
• Sharp photos with great color and contrast.
• Lots of photos – We have no set limit of what you get within your package time.
• Group photos
• Smaller group photos
• Single person photos.
• Posed group photos but also fun non-posed having fun photos on the beach.
• Any photo requests you want within reason.
• Fast turnaround time to see and DL your photos within 24 t 48 hours
• Great Professional Service and support

Call Us At .. (352) 232-9112 to book your family beach session.

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My Family Beach Portraits provides professional family photos on the beach. From larger family reunion groups to small family groupings we cover it all. A mix of posed and non posed photos so you have a lot to pick from. Photos of kids and teens as groups and as single photos as needed.

Here are some sample photos from Brooke’s family session in Orange Beach. We met them at the Orange Beach point and walked out for the photo session. We started out in front of a area of sea oats and had a nice wind blowing their hair back out of the way.

Down By The Waters Edge

Part two of their photo session we moved down by the water for more photos. This gives a different look with the water in the background and the Orange Beach bridge.

We shot many portrait photos and some fun good time photos as well. It was a fun session with the Brookes family.

Alabama Family Beach Photographer

Photographer Ed Morgan for My Family Beach Portraits has been shooting family photos and weddings on the beach going back to 2002 starting over in the Destin FL area. As the Alabama coast area started growing and growing we starting photographing on the Alabama coast. They we moved over into Alabama making it our main area we shot photo

Photographers In Orange Beach

We love the Gulf Shores and Orange Beach area Including the Fort Morgan Area as they offer amazing beaches and good parking. When you look at Gulf Shores VS Destin. Gulf Shores has much better beach areas with better parking. Its the same water and sand but on the Alabama coast, you have better roads to get around faster as in Destin you can be stuck in a traffic jam very easy.

The Orange point and most beach rental homes offer great views of sea oats to be in your photos. We can meet you and your family at the Orange Beach point or at a beach rental home or condo that is on the beach. Just make sure you get us a parking pass if needed so we can park.

Any day on the beach expect it to be windy as it is the beach and we have a wind that blows in off the ocean a lot. Also in summer it can be hot out and the sun can be bright.

Sunset Family Beach Portraits

The best time of day for your family beach photos is starting one hour before sunset. We can shoot in the afternoon but do not recommend this ever. In the afternoon it can be so bright out and no one can open their eyes and everyone will be very hot and sweating. This is even worse for small children with the eyes.

Starting one hour before sunset when we start it still may be somewhat bright out but as we shoot and the sun starts to set it gets cooler out and less bright out. By the time we are all dome with the sun now down it can be very nice out with a cooler wind coming in off the ocean. Also with the sun setting we can get a softer look vs the harder harsh light you would get in the afternoon.

Give us a call at 352 232-9112 to book your family session. When you are looking for Photographers In Orange Beach or Gulf Shores check out our sample photos Here.

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We have been proving family beach photos going back almost 20 years now. We started out in Destin Floris and then as Gulf Shores took off and grew to what it is now we moved to Gulf Shores.

Gulf Shores offers much better-looking beaches and a lot better parking and more beach access points. We cover all of Gulf Shores, Orange Beach and the Fort Morgan Area and in FL Perdido Key.

As an Orange Beach Photographer, we photograph many of our sessions at the Orange Beach point. The point has a long walkway down to the beach with a great view of the water and sea oats.

Here are some sample photos from Lisa’s family beach session we shot at the Phoenix condos in Orange Beach. To book your Orange beach photographer for your family beach photos see our packages Here and then give us a call.

Phoenix Condo Family Photos

A popular place to stay in Orange Beach Alabama is at one of the Phoenix condos. You will find many Phoenix condos to pick from all with beach access. We can come to the Phoenix condo you are staying at and do your family beach photos out on the beach right behind the Phoenix condo. We have shot at all the Phoenix condos some may require a parking pass for us to park.

Our you can meet us at the Orange Beach Point for your family session its a nice walk out and can be a fun time. If you have anyone in your party that has trouble walking then we suggest shooting at just past the Point the shell beach area as it is a little less of a walk out.

Your Orange Beach Photographer

We do not subcontract out our jobs or hire anyone with a camera like many other services do. When you hire us you will get Ed Morgan your photographer. Ed is a award winning photographer. We have been shooting on the beach for so long others try and copy us and our poses and lighting but they never quite get it right.

If you are looking for quality photos of your family give us a call to book your family sessions with us. You will talk with Donna she handles all the booking and will come to the session as well and help to pose and with kids. Call us at (352) 232-9112

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The Clays were dressed in multi colors for fun beach pictures.

Orange Beach Family Photographer

As an Orange Beach Family photographer, My Family Beach Portraits offers fantastic photos on the beach 7 days a week year round. We also photography high school seniors, engagement session, Bridal sessions, and Wedding. We love taking photos of kids and families. Ed has been taking photos on the beach for over 15 years so you are in good hands.

Professional quality photos with great colors, Sharpness, and exposures. Over the years we have used many different lens and cameras. This year we have updated to Two new cameras and lens just out to get the best possible images for you and your family.

My Family Beach Portraits .com is a true leader on the coast for the best in family beach portraits.
Fast turnaround time on your photos. In 24 to 48 hours your photos will be online ready for you to download or order prints and other photo items if you wish.

All our packages come with full high-resolution images and print rights. You can make your own prints in any size you want. We do have an Orange Beach family photos website Here

See more sample of our work Here

To book your Orange Beach Family photographer session call Donna at (352) 232-9112

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 Orange Beach marriage proposal Photos On The Beach

We love photographing marriage proposal’s engagement sessions and weddings as well. Professional beach photography with fast turnaround time for your family photos on the beach. We are in full swing taking family beach portraits in Orange Beach, Gulf Shores and Fort Morgan Alabama.

Great colors and sharp in focus photos is what we are all about. Quality professional photography service for you and your family or for Orange Beach marriage proposal Photos. Call today to book your family session.

View our packages and prices HERE we are booking 7 days a week. Call Donna to book your session at (352) 232-9112

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Stay away from any company that has many photographers working for them.

Why? For one any good photographer will not be working for a photography group as they will not make as much money as working on their own.

The biggest problem with group photography companies is they will hire anyone and send them out on jobs with no experience or even good equipment.

We are a beach town and beach photographers make most all other income working in the summer months. A photography group cannot keep a group of photographers working all year so after summer is over so is all the jobs. The photographers working for the group companies just wander away as they can not make any money.

Before summer the group photography companies start hiring. They will hire just about anyone with a camera as they have a large turn over as most do not stay as they do not make much money. The people they hire to shoot your family photos have no background check and may even be chriminals you never know. Most do not own good camera equipment and have no photography training but they get hired anyways as they need them for the racket they are running.

Here is how many of them work

This is based on talking in person with many people that have been hired by the companies in the area at the beach on jobs they have been sent out to shoot. We run into them all the time waiting for a customer to arrive. We can always tell they have little to no equipment and have no clue what they are doing. But Sadly some family paid and this is what they get for their money.

They hire someone to be a photographer and show them how to do a few people posing setups and give them some tips on how they might use whatever camera they own. They market at lower prices and will book as many jobs as they can so they can make money off of many bookings each day. They then send out the new photographer to the beach for a job and give them a small fee with the promise of making more money by giving them a % of the after sales print sales hyping them up with numbers of making a lot of money.

The so-called photographer shoots the family photos with no real experience and good camera knowledge and no lighting or other equipment and the photos end up being horrible. The company at this point has already made their money off the customer booking with them. The photographers end up not making anything more as the customer does not buy any prints as they do not lik the photos or they may buy a few and they may almost nothing extra. After a few times doing this the photographer quits as they are not making any money and is replaced by the next person they use.

The company makes their money off the customer booking with them up front. The photographer, for the most part, is used as with so many new starting out photographers they think great things will come of this. In the end, the customer ends up with what may be horrible photos they do not even like.

Natural Light VS Flash photography on the beach

Shooting on the beach in super bright sunlight is not easy and for a photographer, it can be one of the harder conditions to get great images in.

The bright sun the wind and the water mist and ever-changing light exposures as the clouds move by.

Two way to shoot beach portrait one if natural night and two is using flash. Bother are a good way but both have up and downsides.

Natural light. Many newer photographers like to call themselves natural light photographers because they never learned how to use off-camera flash lighting and do not own any. They tend to make up any reason for why they shoot this way. The fact is any good photographer that knows flash photography can also shoot natural light as well but many times it is much better to use flash to get better images.

The big problem with this it is the bright sun we have on the beach. With natural light photography you need to use the light in a way to have your subject lit up from the sun but with the wind blowing this can be a nightmare to do at times unless you have everyone’s hair blowing in their face making for a very bad photo.

The other problem with natural light shooting is to get great exposures you will most likely need to overexpose the background blowing it out making the background very white with little to no details. You come to the beach for photos on the beach and can end up with photos that make the beach look all blown out and lack color.

Using flash. Using flash is not easy on the beach that is why you do not see a lot of people doing this. For one most on camera, or add-on camera flash systems do not have the power to compete with the sun to get the exposure right. A much stronger flash system is needed and needs to be run in full manual this alone stops many photographers as they have never learned how to do this.

So shooting with flash has many advantages over natural light. For on with using flash the photographer can balance the background with the flash to produce a much more even photo with the beach water and sky all looking good and not blow out.

With the wind on the beach using flash the photographer can move the subject so their hair is blowing back not in their face producing much better images.

From image to image using off-camera flash the photographer can use a consistant exposure creating images that are rich in color, very sharp with the better beach colors and look.

At My Family beach portraits, Ed shoots both ways. When the lighting is right for natural light shooting Ed will shot that way but when the lighting the sun and wind are like it is many times on the beach Ed uses flash to make sure you get the best possible photos no matter what it is like out that day.

Ed shoots with two cameras each with a different lens on it. One is set up for the family group photos and the other camera is set up with a special portrait lens on it just for creating the better portrait look and great background bokeh blur.

What to look for when looking for a good Gulf Shores Family Beach Photographer

What to ask 

1. First, Ask who will be the photographer?
2. How long have they been shooting family beach portraits?
3. Do they have a website with sample family beach portraits they shot you can see?
4. What camera and lens are they using?
5. Do they have backup cameras with them in case their camera breaks on the job?
6. Will they be using any flash photography?
7. If not how are they going to deal with the bright sun and wind to get good images?
8. Do they have a Gulf Shores business license to be in business?
9. Do they have the Gulf Shores area permit needed to work and shoot on the beach if not they are breaking the law?
10. How will they be editing your images using what?
11. How long will it take till your images are edited and ready to see? We have seen other photographers take till the end of Oct to edit images from summer sessions.

Any good family portrait photographer will have at least two high-end cameras just in case one breaks as that can happen. The better photographers will offer both natural light and off camera flash shooting that way you know you are getting the best of both.

Any good photographer with experience shooting beach portraits will have plenty of smaples images to show. And a website they own and run for their business. Any working beach shooter knows that they must edit the images fast and get them down or they will fall behind shooting every day in summer. They will have a good photo gallery system for the customers to view, download and order prints.

It is unlikely you will find a well-experienced photographer shooting or working for any company that has many photographers they don’t need to.

Hire the right photographer and get the better images you will be more happy with. Stay away from the photography farms as we call them as you never know who and what you are going to end up with.

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Orange Beach family beach portrait photographer

We offer professional family beach portraits 7 days a week in Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, Fort Morgan and in Florida Perdido Key, Pensacola, and Navarre.

Many photography packages to pick from so we have you covered at many price points. From one person to large family reunions your photography coverage will be the best on the coast. Sharp clear in focus photos of you and your family ready to make prints. Your Orange beach family photos come with all the edited images and print rights. With the print rights, you can make as many prints at any size as you want or you can order them from us as well. We do offer extra edited and cropped framed wall portraits. A framed photo will arrive to your home ready to hang on the wall right out of the box.

See a lot of sample images and package prices on our website.  As an Orange Beach family beach portrait photographer, we also offer other photos services.  If you are coming to the coast for an Orange Beach Wedding we have beach wedding photography packages. Our wedding packages cover from the just the wedding to full coverage including the reception. You can see hundreds of our beach weddings photos and packages prices on our other website here.

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Bring home amazing photos of you and your family you can turn into framed wall portraits for an everlasting view of your Alabama vacation. With over 15 years of experience shooting on the beach, you will not find a better Orange Beach family beach photographer for your photos. See our Orange beach page here

Orange Beach Family Beach Photographer

All our family photo packages included all your edited photos from your session no extra cost. Your photos will be ready to view and download within 24 to 48 hours and Share online with friends. The package includes two versions of your photos a full-size version ready for printing. And a smaller website size ready for posting to social media and websites. The package also comes with print rights paperwork so you make as many prints at any size you want.

As your Orange Beach Family Beach Photographer, your session will include group photos and then smaller groupings and then single photos of kids and anyone in your party. Photos are shot using natural light or off-camera flash as needed.

Your photographer will be award-winning portrait photographer Edward Morgan. Ed has photographed hundreds of families on the beach and hundreds of weddings as well. Ed used the best quality professional cameras and lens. All your photos will be professionally edited you will have lots of photos from your session.

Orange Beach is a small city on Alabama’s Gulf Coast. It’s known as a water sports and fishing hub. Visit the Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism website here

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Ed Morgan has specialized in beach photography for 15 or more years Utilizing natural lighting and specializing in advance off-camera lighting. We are now booking for our 2018 orange beach family sessions. We photograph in Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, Fort Morgan, Alabama and Perdido Key, Florida. We break our family beach sessions up with traditional posing, Lifestyle, and fun! Coordinating Your clothes for your beach session, Most of our Orange Beach family beach clients wear the traditional khaki and white, pastels and earth-tones, as well as darker colors or Denim , The darker colors are great for October thru March not to say you can’t choose to wear them but remember when choosing your clothes for your orange Beach family beach pictures  in the spring and summer it is the beach and it can be hot & the humidity may be high.

Donna will call the day of your session to discuss any weather issues and confirm time and location. We can photograph your family portraits at your condo, Beach vacation rental, park the locations are endless in Orange Beach, Alabama. At My family beach portraits, we make your photography memories and treasure our time to photograph your family. We have photographed Many Hundreds of families over the years, We love our returning clients and look forward to meeting and photographing new ones. Thank you for visiting our website and allowing us to show you our Orange Beach Family Photography work.

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We shoot all our own photos and do not hire our other photographers for the job, Your photographer will be Ed Morgan. Ed is one of the most experienced beach photographers on the coast as you can see from the photos.

Ed uses nothing buy professional camera equipment for your family session and is a master at editing so your images will pop to life with great detail and color. We also offer special editing to turn your favorite images into a work of art. As an Orange Beach Family Beach Photographer Ed uses lens that can create that special look of background blur when needed its called bokeh the out of focus areas behind the subject.  For 2018 we now have a new lens we are using just for this that is great for headshots,  waste up shots and fantastic for photos of kids and babies or toddlers.

When looking for your Orange Beach Family Beach Photographer things to look for are. How long has the person been shooting on the beach and can you see lots of photos from different photo session they have shot, Are the photos consistent from session to session, What equipment are they using and do they have backup equipment with them as things do break and working on the beach is hard on camera gear.

In the end, you will find many so-called beach photographers do not have much experience working on the beach, Do not have backup equipment and are not using professional gear or lens. Many of them do not even know how to edit images very well. And they do not know how to get a great image of families and kids on the beach.

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