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Our Background

Husband and wife photography team, Gabe and Jennifer Hillebrand, have a combined 30-plus year history in fine art and photojournalistic photography.

Jennifer grew up in Metro Detroit and has a Bachelor of Arts from the fine and performing arts school, Emerson College located in Boston, Massachusetts. There, she studied Photography, Theatre, and Writing. No stranger to the entertainment industry and having worked commercially as a print model and actress, Jennifer began her photography career in Boston photographing celebrity musicians, album covers for bands, and portfolios for aspiring actors and models.

Born in and raised in one of the nation's most art-centric regions, the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Gabe attended Bethel University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Art History. From there, he made his way to Michigan to attend the internationally renowned Cranbrook Academy of Art where he earned his Master of Fine Arts, was selected to have his photography featured at the Hudson Valley of Contemporary Art in New York, and married Jennifer.

Our Style of Photography

We specialize in wedding photojournalism, lifestyle portraiture, fashion and editorial-style photography.  Stepping into your world, we photograph you in your environment, your life, your style. We are inspired by art, fashion, nature and most importantly, our subjects. We love uncovering the elements that make each person, couple, or family distinct from the next. Using the camera, it's our goal to see and to show those profound and beautiful things.

The end result? Photographs that are unique. Photographs that are you.

Clarisse & Ryan

Simple. Elegant. Timeless. Lovely. These are the words that come to mind when I think of this couple. Clarisse has such a lovely face and stunning profile. Her classic beauty brings the 1940’s to mind. These two are beautiful, fun and smart: Ryan is an engineer and Clarisse is in law school.  They enjoy sports, drinking beer, watching animated films, and most importantly, being goofy together. We’re so looking forward to photographing their big, fun, Polish wedding this coming August! Taken just a week before Christmas, we had a blast hanging around downtown Rochester and catching their gorgeous engagement images. We’d like to thank the following businesses for lending us their awesome spaces: 4th Street Mercantile, Rochester Mills Beer Company, and the Rochester DDA for those INCREDIBLE holiday lights downtown! Enjoy their charming photos and don’t forget to check out the slide show and full gallery below!!

To see the rest of their images, click here to view their slide show and link to the full gallery!!

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January 26, 2010 - 1:22 pm jhillebrand - Hi Mark, Thanks for your comment :) We shoot completely manual on full-frame cameras. For the night images, you do need to use a tripod and just experiment with shutter speed and aperture until you get the right combination. Hope that helps!

January 26, 2010 - 1:05 pm Mark - I'm friends with ELisa and I was wondering how you took the Rochester Photos? What were your setttings? I wanted to do that exact thing but didnt get a chance to try it. thanks so much M

October 29, 2010 - 1:01 pm Clarisse & Ryan » Hillebrand Photography Blog - [...] to know where to begin in describing this wedding. Clarisse and Ryan (who you may remember from their Christmas-y engagement session last winter) are an amazing, fun-loving, sentimental, and all together incredible couple. [...]

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