Simple Sophistication
Newport Beach, CA & Gilbert, AZ • Sessions by appointment only
Southern California & Arizona
Orange County ● Los Angeles ● phoenix ● Scottsdale
Gilmore Studios works with many groups including National Charity League, Assistance League, and Las Ninas (Las Madrecitas) for Debutante Ball event portraits. We will organize all the family and group portraits as well as cover the actual event. We include digital images and can create gorgeous leather photo albums. We also photograph other events for these organizations like fashion shows, father/daughter tributes, tea/rose ceremonies, and Rainbow Luncheons. We organize and photograph numerous debutante portrait sessions in our private 1/2 acre garden in Newport Beach every year. The garden has a large synthetic turf area perfect for keeping those white dresses clean! We can also come to you for your group portraits if Newport is too far.
Are you struggling to find great photos to post on social media for your business? Is it stressful to figure out what to post each week? Gilmore Studios will spend a few hours with you to document numerous different lifestyle looks, locations, details, scenery and more so that your instagram can be filled without you having to think about it for the next 30-90 days.
Our Red Carpet Event photograph is perfect for adding a little extra pizazz to your celebration. We can bring one of our backdrops or we can set up at your personalized step and repeat that you provide. Professional lighting and photographer included. All images will be available on an online gallery for guests to download their images. A great way to get guests involved at your event and to remember this fun occasion.
Corporate/Commercial sessions are a great option if you need to document a seminar, photograph your establishment, or just simply to update your website. We will connect with you prior to the day to talk about what your end goal is in regards to the photographs. All images will be uploaded online and a private link will be sent to you to download the high-resolution images. From business workshops to specialty schools, this option is great for any kind of business looking to freshen up their images.
We are proud to have photographed numerous March for Babies charity walks for the March of Dimes organization in Newport Beach, CA. Gilmore Studios volunteers our time for Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (N.I.L.M.D.T.S), an amazing charity group that helps families who lose their newborn babies at Hoag Hospital.
Gilmore Studios works with National Charity League, Assistance League, and Las Ninas (Las Madrecitas) for Debutante Ball event portraits. We will organize all the family and group portraits on location and create gorgeous leather photo albums for the families. We also photograph other events for these organizations like fashion shows, father/daughter tributes, Tea/rose ceremonies, and Rainbow Luncheons. We organize and photograph hundreds of debutante portrait sessions in our private 1/2 acre garden in Newport Beach every year. The garden has a large synthetic turf area perfect for keeping those white dresses clean!
From celebrity golf tournaments at the country club, to awards banquets at the California Club in Los Angeles, we are always ready to document your next special event.
The question that starts almost every cake smash conversation:
What themes can we do?
Honestly — almost anything.
But here is what I actually recommend.
Choose something they are into right now. Whatever phase they are in at this exact age. The dinosaurs. The rubber ducks. The princesses. The trucks. The thing they carry everywhere and sleep with and talk about constantly.
Because here is what nobody tells you about cake smash sessions: in ten years that photo is going to show you exactly who your child was at this age. Not just what they looked like. Who they were.
That is worth capturing.
We have a full theme library on our website — but if you do not see something that fits your child we will build it custom. No two sessions have to look the same because no two kids are the same.
For this session we planned everything together from the start. Rubber ducky theme. Portraits first. Then family photos. Then cake.
And before we ever talked about the set — we talked about what she wanted to do with the photos.
She chose an album.
Because digitals are beautiful. But an album is something her daughter will open when she is grown and understand immediately.
What theme are you thinking for your little one? Drop it in the comments — I want to see what phase you are in right now.
Newport Beach and Gilbert AZ. Link in bio. #cakesmash #cakesmashphotographer #cakesmashphotography
DM me BIRTHDAY and let’s start planning yours.
Photography started as something I loved.
I never picked up a camera thinking it would become a business, support my family, introduce me to thousands of incredible people, or still be part of my life 20+ years later.
But somewhere along the way, a hobby became a career.
Then a business.
Then a huge part of my life. 🤍
I’ve photographed weddings, newborns, seniors, families, birthdays, and milestones for people I’ve known for decades.
And honestly?
The greatest part isn’t the photos.
It’s the people.
The families who come back year after year.
The babies who become seniors.
The clients who become friends.
That’s what keeps me showing up every day.
Do you have a hobby you secretly wish could become your full-time job?
Comment LEARN if you’d like to see how I turned photography into a 20+ year business.
You trusted a photographer with 3000+ followers… instead of 300k 👀
And honestly? Best decision ever. 🤍
Because great photos aren’t about follower count.
They’re about connection, experience, and capturing your child in a way that actually feels like THEM.
The laughing.
The personality.
The little in-between moments parents never want to forget. 🥹
That’s the stuff that matters years later ✨
Your photographer for life 💕
I met her when she was 10 days old in 2009.
I also met her mom and dad for the very first time that day. None of us knew what the next 17 years would look like.
A few months later we did holiday photos of their new little family. And then again the year after that. And the year after that.
Somewhere along the way it stopped feeling like sessions.
I watched her grow up. I got to see her personality come through. The spontaneity, the laugh that never once changed, the way she lit up every single session without even trying. I saw her become a big sister. I heard about elementary school and junior high and what high school was actually like.
I knew their amazing dog Zeus. And I got to meet the new puppies.
I heard about all her hobbies and interests along the way. I watched a little girl become a young woman. One session at a time. And her family trusted me to be there for all of it.
We are almost done with high school now.
I cannot believe how fast it went.
This is not just a job.
Photography gives me more than a career. It gives me a window into someone’s life.
And this family. This amazing girl. Is exactly why I have never once questioned what I do.
Not just a photographer for a season.
A photographer for life.
Newport Beach CA and East Valley AZ. Established 2002.
Do you have a photographer for life? I would love to be yours. Comment PHOTOGRAPHER and I will send you more info.
Personality Portraits booking now….Most of my clients have no idea what the final image is going to look like when I’m taking it.
I’m asking siblings to stand here.
Look there.
Move closer.
Laugh at each other.
And sometimes it probably makes absolutely no sense in the moment.
But that’s the beauty of trusting the process.
Because what I’m really looking for isn’t perfect smiles.
It’s connection.
The way siblings look at each other.
The little laughs.
The personalities that make your family yours.
Those are the photos that end up meaning the most years later.
If you love photos that capture your child`s personality, comment PERSONALITY and I`ll send you all the details about our Personality Portrait Sessions 🤍
Newport Beach, CA & Gilbert, AZ
Session by appointment only
