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What We Photograph
Fashionable Portraits of People & Events
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Welcome to Focus Photography. We're a wedding and portrait studio located on the coast of Maine, in historic Portland's Old Port. We opened our doors in 2005, when our cofounders, Will and Lucia returnded to Maine after ten years of shooting weddings, models, and actors in the Los Angeles area.
We still love working weddings, but we've added a few more specialties as our clients have asked for it. Our brides became pregnant, and asked us to photograph their bellies. They had babies, children, and families. High school seniors saw the work we've done with models, and wanted that fashion focused look themselves. And then they got engaged, and wanted us to shoot their wedding, and we start all over again.
Here's what was amazing - we were able to take our style of photography, that we had spent the last decade developing, and apply that to babies and bellies, children and families, and high school seniors. And we can do this because all of our images share common features - artistic compositions, dramatic lighting, fashionable posing, and impactful tonality.
Take a look at the similiarities between these three images:
In each of those three images, the skies are exaggerated, the scenery is important, and the image is dramatic. It doesn't matter that one is an art print, one is a wedding, and one a senior - they each share an artistic feel.
As you look through our galleries, look at the contemporary posing and choreography, and how natural our subjects look. Look at the directional lighting, and how dramatic our images are. Look at the clarity of our colors, and the intensity of our black and white images.
That's what we do. We hope you'll want to see yourself in our images.
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Weddings
The most fashionable wedding photography in New England
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Focus' wedding style blends the unusual elements of William von Wenzel's background (fashion, beauty, and artistic photography) to create wedding imagery unlike any other.
To this unusual fusion of styles we've added a few key beliefs:
- Wedding photography should be stylish, contemporary, and artistic, and neither stoic nor boring (like traditional wedding photography), or random and indiscriminate (like candid shooters).
- Modern couples want images that are more sophisticated than prom photos, but no one wants to be rigidly positioned and spend their wedding day as a mannequin.
- Photography should be fast, fun, and organized, so that an incredible variety of images can be created in a short amount of time.
- Professionals should stand behind the work they do, and ensure that their clients get what they paid for. Few can. At Focus Photography, we always guarantee everything we do.
Weddings at Focus are flexible. Whether your wedding will be four people on a beach on a Thursday afternoon, or four hundred people at a gala event under the stars, we can tailor our services to capture the wedding of your dreams.
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Romantic Sessions
For Engaged Couples, or any couple who happens to be in love
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What we do at weddings, we can do with any couple. Romantic sessions show the love and connection between two people, and can be scheduled either in our studio, or at one of our artistic coastal locations.
A new trend we're seeing is newly married couples, who really enjoy our style of photography, (and might wish that we had photographed their wedding). These 'After the Wedding' sessions can be done with the wedding gown, or any other elegant dress, and don't require flowers!
Of course we work with many recently engaged couples as they prepare for their weddings, and these sessions are great for save the dates, postcards, invitations and thank you notes.
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Seniors
"I strongly recommend Focus Photography for Senior Portraits. It is the best studio in Maine, and their pictures turn out better than any other studios." - Erica Snow, Gray-New Gloucester
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Today's seniors want images that are more cutting-edge and fashionable than ever before. William von Wenzel's background as an agency photographer for models and actors gives him a unique approach to photographing seniors. From the lighting, to the posing, to the composition of each image, having your senior portraits created by Will is a unique experience that will bring out the best of you in all of your photographs. Whether you want to look like a rock star on a magazine cover; a supermodel on a runway; an Olympian in a Sports Illustrated spread; or just look the best you've ever looked in images - Focus Photography is the only choice for your seniors portraits.
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Beauty and Model Sessions
Because every woman deserves to look glamorous...
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Whether you want to actually be a model, or you just want to look like one to celebrate YOU, a beauty session with Focus Photography will reveal the most glamorous you.
Models should call to learn about our complete portfolio packages; comp-card collections; and our pick-me-up sessions. Everyday beauties can consider our Dramatic Diva session; our Intimate Images sessions; or our Model Makeover session.
Interested in holding an Intimate Images party? Four to ten friends can share an entertaining evening creating images for their beaus. We'll supply the photography, but you bring the cocktails.
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Newborns and Babies
"The most artistic newborn photography in New England" - Gina Bartlet
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When you look at the images in our newborn gallery, you'll see no rubber duckies, or Curious George onesies - that's just not what we do. At Focus, newborn photography is about the connection between you and your child, and artistic images showing the tininess of their little bodies. As your baby matures, we focus on natural expressions, and the milestone moments that define this point in their development, but we'll always capture the relationship in your new family.
We have a complete site devoted to baby photography available by following this link, or you can call our studio at any time for more information.
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Belly Pictures
Because Motherhood Is Beautiful
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Over the last four years, Focus has become a national trendsetter in the new field of fine art maternity images. Our photographer, William von Wenzel, has a unique ability to combine his fashion background with very specialized lighting techniques to create images that sculpt a woman's body with light - showing the beautiful, feminine curves of pregnancy, while hiding other parts of your body you may be less thrilled with in shadow.
Everything we do with belly sessions is done to enhance the beauty of pregnancy, emphasize how excited you are for your soon-to-arrive baby, and show that they were born into a family of love. If you'd like more information, visit our belly site here.
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Family Portraits
Art from the people you love
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Few things are more important to us than the bonds of our families, and yet most families go decades between family portraits. It's tempting to believe that the reason we sometimes avoid these images is the difficulty of scheduling a family session in the middle of our busy lives, and yet we can schedule so many other family activities.
Maybe the reason the last time your family had a portrait taken together was over a decade ago has less to do with scheduling, and more to do with past experience. Did you have to stand in front of a faux library shelf, painfully saying cheese while a goofy photographer snapped ten images that all looked like everyone was in pain?
That's not how it works at Focus. We offer connection sessions for families that showcase the bonds between you, and not necessarily your dental work. Environmental sessions, where kids get to play and be themselves. Your Place sessions at your own home, or Rockstar Family sessions to highlight everyone's individuality.
At Focus, family sessions are fun, fashion-oriented, and completely different from what you remember at other photography studios.
Let's create some images of your family that have real meaning for you, and let's not put this off for another decade. Call our studio today for more information on how easy it is for you to have the images of your family you really want.
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Children
From Toddlers to Teens
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As the novelty of babyhood wears off, many parents stop documenting how fabulous their sons and daughters are with pictures. By the time most kids are school-age, their parents are content to have the school photographer grab a 'say cheese' picture once a year, and photography is forgotten about.
There is a better way.
At Focus, we celebrate the natural expressions of children; the sparkle in their eyes; the joy in their souls.
If you'd rather hang images of your children that fill your heart with love - instead of simply hoping that next year's picture will be better - you owe it to yourself to call our studio today, to learn more about how we can capture the real side of your kids.
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Raves
Our Client's Own Words
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If you've worked with Focus before, and you'd like to share your story, we'd be thrilled to hear about it. You can drop us any comments using our 'Contact Form', or we have a short set of questions you can answer on our Share The Love page.
Questions are as simple as 'Why did you choose Focus Photography?'; 'How was the quality of your finished images?'; and 'What would you tell other clients about us?'. All answers are helpful to us to continue to deliver an exceptional experience.
Thanks for your interest.
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FAQ
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How do i get started?
Most people who look through our site eventually realize they want images of the quality we produce created of themselves or the people they love.
This realization, that you want your family or your life captured as art, is the first step towards getting it. For most people, the next step is a phone call, to learn a little more, and possibly schedule a session or a free consultation.
We're always happy to talk about photography, and are eager to give you the information you need to get going. Call us, and mention what you're thinking you might like - we'll help you from there. (207) 772 - 4274.
What size images do you recommend for my walls?
Actually, that's going to be different for each house, wall space, and image choice. What works really well for people is taping a piece of white notebook paper on the wall where you might hang a portrait, and then taking a picture of that wall, and sending us a digital picture of it before your ordering appointment.
We've got software that will show you your images on the wall, in your house, in a variety of frames, and what every size would look like. That way you can choose what looks right to you in your home, and see it in advance.
Doesn't that sound easy?
Are you part of a chain?
Nope - We're just three photographers - Will Wenzel, Lucia Razionale, and Alison Thomas. And we're passionate about creating amazing images for our clients. Focus Photography is a boutique photography studio, much like your favorite clothing or jewelry boutique, except that everything we carry is custom created especially for you.
Maybe it's our name, Focus Photography, or something about our brochures or web site, but we often have people assume that we're part of a chain of photography studios. We're not.
Do you work with pets?
Yes! Since pets are family members, we often have people who bring us their furry friends at family sessions, but we can also do portrait sessions of just your pet. Dogs, cats, and hamsters are pretty common, and can come to our studio. If you've got Horses and cows, we'll probably want to come to you.
Will has never worked with (and therefore would really like to) tarantulas, very large lizards, or moose.
Where should I park?
There's a row of parking meters in front of our studio, but that's not where we suggest you park when coming to us. Instead, park on the side of our building, on the cobblestone lane, in the permit parking reserved just for our clients. Drive around our building to avoid going the wrong way up the one way lane, or just pull in the wrong way carefully.
What should i bring?
That answer is going to be different for every type of session we shoot, and most of the time we have a whole packet of information we'll send you before you come in. If you have questions after that, call our studio and we'll talk it through together.
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About us
Our Approach
Six Themes
What's In It For You?
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Focus Photography is a contemporary wedding and portrait studio with a creative difference. Our approach to photography is atypical; we actively create images, instead of passively capturing what anyone could see.
We create beautiful images, so that our subjects will look beautiful in them. Romantic images of couples to showcase the love between two people. Strong, masculine images of men to emphasize their strength, and glamorous, fashionable images of women to highlight their own personal style. At Focus, we create art, which you could be a part of.
There are six themes that run throughout everything we do - Fashion, Beauty, Love, Art, Innocence, and Heroism - and we try to weave as many of these themes into a session as we can. These are the archetypes of our photography, and we hope you recognize these qualities as you view the images.
So why does this matter to you? Because our images are more than just what could be seen in a reflection. We tell the story of your wedding, instead of just showing your guests eating cheese cubes. We show the bond between a mother and child, instead of how well that child can say 'cheese'.
This is our guarantee to you - You'll love how beautiful you are in your wedding images; you'll always marvel at how innocent and precious your baby is as he sleeps on your shoulder; and you'll be proud to show your senior portraits that bring out the best that you can be.
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 William von Wenzel
William is an award-winning photographer, as well as one of only six Certified Professional Photographers in Maine, and he is responsible for most of the photography here at Focus.
William is a three-time winner of Kodak's prestigious Gallery Award, a current honoree on the Maine Professional Photographers Association's Court of Honor, and the winner of both the 2011 and 2010 Wedding Album of the Year Award for the state of Maine.
In 2002, William developed a technique for recreating classic fine-art darkroom techniques with digital capture, and has been known for his artful, high contrast images ever since. He is currently exploring methods for pushing the dynamics of color images into the gamut of museum-caliber prints.
In 2005 he returned to New England from the Los Angeles area, and opened Focus Photography with his wife Lucia. He is the current President of the Maine Professional Photographers Association.
 Lucia Razionale
Lucia is our studio manager, and handles virtually every aspect of customer-care. You'll probably schedule all your appointments with Lucia, and she'll help you choose and order the images from your session.
At weddings, Lucia is both a creative photographer, as well as a master of timelines and group shots. In the studio, it is her high standards that ensure that every print, canvas, album, card, and wallet that leave our studio are the highest quality art pieces possible.
Alison Thomas
Ali is our digital artist; and she's the happy face you'll see first when you come into our studio. Ali will show you around, help you hang up your clothing, and get you ready for your session with Will.
A graduate of the Maine College of Art, Ali is also an accomplished photographer as well as a graphic artist.
 Focus Photography opened its doors in Portland at the end of June, 2005, with a mission to transform traditional portraiture by injecting fashion, editorial and fine-art photography styles where they had never been. Our co-founders, Will and Lucia, were moving back to New England to be closer to their families, and were certain that Maine was ready for contemporary photography.
They'd already been successful in California combining the fashion photography William was shooting in Los Angeles for model agencies with artistic wedding coverage, creating his signature Fashion Wedding Photography style. Will had also worked with enough High School seniors to know that fashion photography could transform that market segment. Within six months of Focus' relocation, New England saw that the combination of fashion and art would work with all kinds of photography.
Initially, Focus concentrated on what Will and Lucia created in California - weddings and seniors - but we quickly found ways to transform new fields of photography. We launched a line of family portraits called connection studies - black and white images that featured the bonds between family members, instead of just their dental work. Then we started shooting fine art belly sessions, showing the beauty of pregnancy, instead of just the bump. Newborns, babies, children, and teens - everywhere we've created a contemporary way to photograph something has been excitedly received by Maine.
And now the Focus effect is spreading farther than we ever expected. We've had families come from Florida, Texas, California, England, and even Brazil to work with us, and have learned how to ship finished artwork to anywhere our clients wish to hang it.
Maine has been very good to us, and we are grateful. We support over two dozen local and national charities, scholastic organizations, and church groups right here in Maine. We're always looking for ways to give back to the community that supports us, and would love to help your group.
We've partnered with the Convention and Visitor's Bureau and the Maine Department of Tourism to entice travelers to bring their money into our beautiful state. We've helped local businesses reinvent themselves by re-energizing their imagery.
Our core businesses, weddings and seniors, continue to be our passion. We've worked with couples from twenty-six states, and have mastered the skills doing destination weddings abroad (travelling with expensive glass lenses is a challenge...). And we've worked students from over thirty-three different high schools who all wanted senior portraits that didn't look like anything their classmates would have.
That's what's happened in our first five years. Just imagine what we can do in ten. Thank you Maine for your support, and we look forward to working with you!!!
 We're located on the edge of Portland's Old Port, right across the street from the waterfront, on the corner of Commercial and Center Streets. You can see our exact location on a map by following this link.
We're in the center of Coastal New England. Twenty minutes from Kennebunkport in one direction and Freeport in the other; under an hour from Portsmouth, Lewiston/Auburn, and Augusta; and under two hours from Boston as well as mid-coast Maine.
The ease with which you can get to us, combined with the uniqueness of our photography, has made Focus Photography a destination people from around New England seek out. And our convenient location at the geographic center of the New England coast has made us the first choice for seaside weddings.
Focus Photography has become one of New England's most sought-after wedding studios by sticking to a few basic philosophies we had when we founded the company:
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Wedding photography should be stylish, contemporary, and artistic, and neither stoic nor boring (like traditional wedding photography), or random and indiscriminate (like candid shooters).
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Couples want images that are more sophisticated than prom photos, but no one wants to be rigidly positioned and spend their wedding day as a mannequin.
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Photography should be fast, fun, and organized, so that an incredible variety of images can be created in a short amount of time.
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Professionals should stand behind the work they do, and ensure that their clients get what they paid for. Few can. At Focus Photography, we always guarantee everything that we do
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We have an entire website dedicated to senior photography, but most people find it by coming to our main site first. You might come here because you looked for:
If you'd like to click over to our senior page, the link is here.
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