Imagine yourself in some of the most beautiful areas in the world with a professional photographer to capture your image among the beauty and splendor that surrounds you. That is exactly the opportunity our Estes Park Family Photographers team has created with our Adventure Mountain Family Photography Sessions. Considered best for fit groups with excellent mobility and stamina, our Adventure Mountain Photography Sessions feature multiple backgrounds, groupings, and poses. Adventure Mountain Sessions are photographed at incredible locations inside of Rocky Mountain National Park and include some of the most beautiful scenery imaginable as the backdrop for your images.

Our Adventure Mountain Sessions are available year round (weather and specific location permitting) and include a combination of up to three hours of hiking and session time. Some of our preferred locations can accommodate groups as large as 25 people while others are best for just a few adventurous souls. Adventure sessions are most frequently shot in areas of Rocky Mountain National Park such Nymph Lake, Dream Lake, Gem Lake, Bierstadt Lake, Rock Cut, Tundra Communities Trail, Lily Lake, and Sprague Lake but if you have an area you'd like us to consider visiting with you let us hear about it.

Adventure Mountain Family Sessions are typically shot in the mornings but can be photographed at other times of day. Especially if we are shooting in a shaded mountain valley, when clouds are present, weather is a challenge, or another time of day fits your group best. Our fun and exciting Rocky Mountain National Park Family Photography Adventure Sessions typically include more than 50 edited images but the final tally depends on group composition, group interests, and overall level of difficulty reaching our desired session location.

​During a typical Adventure Mountain Vacation Family Photography Session our Estes Park photographer will take several hundred total photos. Each photograph taken is done so in a format called "RAW". According to Adobe, the maker of top grade professional editing software Lightroom and Photoshop, "a RAW file is lossless, meaning it captures uncompressed data from your camera sensor. Sometimes referred to as a digital negative, you can think of a RAW file as the raw “ingredients” of a photo that will need to be processed in order to bring out the picture’s full potential. Most professional photographers shoot in RAW because it gives them more information to work with in the post-processing phase." The Estes Park Family Photographers team believe the advantage of shooting in RAW is we get the opportunity to access the most information possible in order create the best possible images for our clients.

Once your Adventure Mountain Family Photography Session has been completed and you go back to your relaxing vacation vibe the real work begins for our team. We begin by importing all of the raw images taken and begin the painstaking process of selecting the best of the best to undergo hours of editing and retouching. We take the time to touch each and every photo to ensure we deliver the most expressive images possible. We enhance each photo by adjusting standard professional elements such as color, contrast, and highlights. Whenever possible, we eliminate unwanted background objects, reduce or remove hair fly-aways, slim arms and tummies, remove flash bulbs from glasses, lessen obvious pimples and blemishes, reduce perspiration or water spots, and lessen dark under eye circles. We even whiten teeth and enhance skies on a few  up close photographs. Finally, we hand-pick certain images and often add special artistic touches to chosen poses such as black and white, sepia, watercolor, and other special effects.

Once your photos are ready for you to enjoy we will send you an email with a link to your photo gallery. From your password protected gallery you can share your photos with friends and family, post directly to Facebook, Twitter and Pintrest, download your images to your computer, and even purchase prints from our professional lab at half price. Family photography clients should expect their gallery to be viewable in less than two weeks of their session date.