Portrait Studio Based in Hagerstown, MD • Serving the Mid-Atlantic
Where love is captured as legacy
Baltimore Family Photographer
The Plotczyk
Family
Your family’s connection preserved in portraits that feel as real as the moments you live together. Not just how it looks, but how it feels to be in it.
Each image is crafted to reflect the energy, closeness, and personality that makes your family yours. Nothing forced, nothing generic. Just an honest, artful interpretation of this season of life as it exists right now, in all of its movement, warmth, and meaning.
These are portraits that become part of your legacy. Art for your walls that pulls you back into this chapter every time you pass by. The kind of images that grow more valuable with time, not because they are perfect, but because they are true.
Portrait design
appointment
Celebrity-level hair, makeup & wardrobe styling
Signature guided posing
Museum grade Products
No awkwardness, just pure elegance, focused on bringing out your strengths. Icons aren’t born, they are captured. I will capture the real YOU!
Clients often choose to transform their portraits into museum-quality Italian wall art, creating an enduring piece that reflects their story and the life they’ve built.
Your session is carefully designed to ensure your portraits are an extension of you. Every detail from sets and styling to the angles is curated to ensure your portraits exude power and prestige.
Because you deserve the level of glam reserved for Hollywood’s elite. Our professional stylists will ensure you look and feel your absolute best.
what's included in your family session
The Curtright Family
Motherhood
Your story as a mother honored in portraits that celebrate connection, presence, and love across every stage. These sessions may include children as young as six months through older children and siblings, allowing you to document the bond you share as it evolves over time.
Motherhood sessions are often used to preserve a meaningful season, update artwork in your home, or intentionally create portraits that reflect your role within your family. The focus is on togetherness, resulting in imagery that feels deeply personal and timeless.
Janine & Esther
Transformation
Everyday
To Elevated
Jill has spent decades being the steady presence. The one who shows up, supports, and makes sure everyone else is taken care of. She’s raised her family, watched her children grow, and now finds herself in a quieter season. One where the camera has rarely been pointed back at her.
Like so many moms, Jill has been the keeper of the memories. The one making sure everyone else is in the frame. And almost never the one being photographed in a way that feels like her. This session was different.
Jill & Amy
The moment Jill sat down for hair and makeup, something shifted. She was cared for, celebrated, and gently brought back into focus. Not as “mom,” but as a woman in her own right. She shared the experience with her daughter, Amy, creating a moment that felt both reflective and full-circle. A chance for Jill to be seen, exactly as she is now.
Frequently asked
questions
Most photographers rely on repeatable setups, familiar poses, and a streamlined approach that looks consistent from client to client.
My work is built differently.
Every session begins with an in-depth consultation where we design your shoot around you. Your features, your personality, your story, and how you want to be seen all shape the final result. From there, I customize every detail. Lighting is built intentionally for your face and body, posing is directed with precision, and each set or environment is chosen to support the vision we’ve created together.
This level of customization is rare.
With a background in fine art and years of technical experience, I specialize in advanced lighting and highly tailored posing for all body types and comfort levels. You’re never left guessing what to do or how to show up. I guide you the entire way so you feel confident, natural, and fully taken care of.
Whether it’s headshots, branding, maternity, family, or a signature session, the goal is always the same. To create images that feel like you on your best day, not like a template.
This isn’t about fitting you into a style.
It’s about building something around you that can’t be replicated.
All motherhood sessions include family, but not all family sessions are motherhood sessions.
A family session focuses on the group as a whole. A motherhood session is centered on her, the emotional connection, her presence, and her relationship with her children, while still capturing the family together. It’s more intentional, more intimate, and designed to honor the mother as much as the moments around her.
You don’t have to figure this out alone. Every session includes a design appointment where we plan wardrobe together so everything photographs cohesively without feeling stiff or overly styled.
Our studio wardrobe features an extensive collection of couture gowns in a wide range of sizes and colors, including matching mom-and-me options. These pieces are available to you and designed to photograph beautifully, taking the pressure off shopping or guessing.
We don’t provide wardrobe for men, simply because most already own what works best on camera such as classic, well-fitting staples. During the design appointment, we walk through exactly what each person will wear or bring so everyone feels confident and prepared well before the session day.
Not at all. Real connection doesn’t come from perfectly posed children. It comes from movement, interaction, and allowing kids to be themselves. Sessions are designed with flexibility so there’s room for play, breaks, and real moments.
The best time is usually before you feel “ready.” You don’t need to wait for a milestone, a certain age, or a perfect season of life. If this chapter matters to you now, it’s worth documenting now.
There’s no set limit on the number of people included. We just need the final headcount by the time of your design appointment, which typically takes place about two weeks after you’ve booked your session date.
Once that number is set, it needs to remain the same. This allows us to thoughtfully coordinate wardrobe, plan sets, and design the session with accuracy and intention so everything runs smoothly on shoot day.
Does everyone have to receive professional hair and makeup?
What if only part of our group wants it?
Professional hair and makeup is not required for every person in your session. That said, if members of your group regularly wear makeup or style their hair, we strongly recommend adding their services with our artists.
One of the reasons clients consistently love how they look in our work is because our hair and makeup artists are among the best in the industry. Their work is a key part of the overall look and ensures consistency across the final images. Without it, the results can feel visually uneven.
Hair and makeup for one person is included in your booking fee. Additional services can be added per person, per service, so you can customize the experience in a way that feels right for your group while maintaining the integrity of the final images.
Family photography matters deeply to me for personal reasons.
When I was growing up, my mom was always the one behind the camera. She documented everything. Holidays, milestones, everyday moments. But almost none of those images were displayed, and we rarely had photographs of her with us. Aside from school pictures, there weren’t many images that showed our family together.
That absence stayed with me.
Today, I create the kind of family portraits I wish we had. Images that live on walls, not tucked away on phones. Photographs that hold connection, presence, and the quiet magic of a family as they are right now. I try to get pictures with my furry family at least once a year now.
These portraits become more meaningful with time. As children grow, as parents age, and as seasons change, they become something to return to and something to pass down. My goal is to create family images that feel just as valuable years from now as they do the day they’re made.
I hold a Fine Art degree from Savannah College of Art & Design and bring 16 years of experience to every session. My work has been featured on billboards in New York City’s Times Square, published in multiple magazines, and recognized with awards. That foundation allows me to focus not just on how your images look, but on how they feel and how long they will matter.
-Audrey
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