Dan Cleary was voted best photographer in the region by Dayton Magazine readers for 2024.
With years of experience and a genuine passion for photography, Dan Cleary at Cleary Creative Photography captures the essence of your most meaningful moments. Dan brings creativity and a personalized touch to every session, from family portraits that reflect deep connections to high school senior photos that showcase individuality to professional headshots that exude confidence. As a Certified Professional Photographer and a Master of Fine Arts graduate from the prestigious Cranbrook Academy of Art, Dan combines technical skill with artistic vision. Recognized as a Proud Dayton Original by the Dayton City Commission, he embodies the city's spirit of innovation and creativity. Trust Cleary Creative Photography to tell your unique story through images you'll cherish for a lifetime.
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Maternity and Newborn Baby Portraits
Maternity and Newborn Baby Portraits
Dan Cleary of Cleary Creative Photography in Dayton Ohio creates beautiful maternity and newborn portraits for young family.
I am very fortunate to have so many wonderful clients who allow me to create beautiful works of art for their families. This African American couple asked me to create family portraits for them. They wanted maternity portraits before their son was born and then they brought him back in after one week for newborn baby portraits.
I am humbled that many families trust me with their family histories. I know that these maternity and newborn baby portraits will be part of the family for many years. This is one of the many things I love about my life as a professional photographer. I love working with families to create beautiful photography that they can display in their house. This couple also signed up for my year long baby plan.
The First Year Baby Portrait Plan is simple: a wonderful collection of your four or five favorite portraits to be taken at the stages of four weeks as a new born baby, three months when your baby is holding it’s head up and smiling, six months when they are sitting up and laughing, nine months when they are sanding up and a one year portrait to finish. Your child’s portrait collection will be delivered in a beautiful 10” by 20” portrait panel after the 12 month session. Look at the top of this page at girl’s and boy’s baby photo panel but it just doesn’t do it justice. You must see it to believe it! To read more about the babies first year baby photography plan for to my Baby Photography page.
Both Mom and Dad serve our nation in the United States Air Force at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. We used Dads summer fatigue uniform in one of the newborn baby photographs. I love being creative and using props that are person to the family.
Business Group Photography
This is the time of the year when business need group photographs of their staff. We even received a call from the National Park Service who needed professional photography of a workshop they were holding at the Wright Brothers Memorial here in Dayton.
Dan has over 25 years experience working with companies and organizations helping them with professional photography. Dan’s experience helps makes the process go as smoothly as possible. Dan is a Certified Professional photographer which means he is recognized by the Professional Photographers of American as being in the top 1% in the industry.
So next time you need a staff photograph call Dan Cleary with Cleary Creative Photography at 937-298-6776. He know how to make everyone look their best.
Photography at Kenwood Retirement facility
For the past months I have been creating photographs at the Kenwood Retirement facility on Cincinnati, Ohio.
This project required me to take exterior, interior and people photographs. I really love working with people but there are times when I like working out the lighting on interior photographs. It takes skill and experience to be able to balance all the lights, the windows and rooms to create images that the client can use for all their needs.
My client used these photographs for printed pieces, billboards and even in videos that aired in TV commercials. I was very lucky that the day we did the exterior photographs there wasn’t a cloud in the sky, just blue skies. The retirement facility has a memory floor and they have found that a dog is a great help to the people who have started to loose their memory. The photograph of the nurse with the dog was a candid photography but it was one of the best out of all the images I created.
