The Big Studio Announcement!!!!

Swiger Photography officially has a studio!  Located in the heart of North Philadelphia in a beautiful refurbished carpet mill, our studio features big beautiful windows, soaring ceilings, stunning east, south and west sunlight, original brick details and even the most beautiful original green window.  We love that our secure building is filled with incredible makers, artisans and creatives and is also the home to the incredible Print Fresh studios!  We are THRILLED ya'll!  This space will allow us to offer private, year round studio and boudoir sessions as well as offer in person album design consultations, meetings and more!  This also means that I will be no longer working from home 4 days a week, something I super excited for!

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Alissa and Kim - Philadelphia Magic Garden Engagement Session

We started the shoot by walked around the area where Magic Gardens is, taking in South Streets cute side streets and cool murals before heading into the gardens!  Alissa and Kim are hilarious and so sweet, making it fun to photograph them together!  We shot between the other people also visiting the gardens but despite there being tons of people there, their images look like it was just them

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Nuriya and Jess - Philadelphia Museum of Art LGBTQ Engagement Session

These two showed up for their engagement session at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Boat House Row and I was immediately jumping up and down because they are just so incredibly cute!!!  They both look at each other with such love and devotion and its really obvious how much they love each other from spending even 5 minutes with them.  And for a photographer, that kind of love is a dream to shoot!

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Amanda - Sultry and Badass Philly Boudior Session at Lokal Hotel

I knew when I asked if Amanda (too fun that we have the same name right?) if she'd wanna shoot with me at Local Hotel in Old City Philadelphia, I wanted to have these images play with light and shadows.  The result are some seriously sultry, badass images with moody light and one insanely gorgeous model.  Amanda went really simple with her looks and so the light in Lokal Hotel and the beautiful blue details created deep shadows and bold highlights and I LOVE the way these turned out. 

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Niki and Jen Fall Engagement Shoot at Ridley Creek State Park

There are some locations I will never tire of shooting at and Ridley Creek State Park is certainly one of them!  Niki and Jen choose this location for their engagement shoot and they showed up SO nervous for our session!  I get it though!  Having your photo taken is nerve wracking and a little scary especially as an LGBTQ couple but ten minutes in of showing them back of the camera previews and ooo-ing over how freakin cute they are, had these two relaxed and laughing.

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