Portrait photographer
WINNER – BEST OF EL CERRITO PHOTOGRAPHER 2025 & 2026!
Photography Sessions
Senior Portraits
My editorial-style senior portrait sessions are also outdoors during the golden hour, with a focus on the senior’s unique personality and interests. LGBTQ+, nonbinary, and neurodivergent seniors are welcome!
Family & Couples
My signature golden-hour family photo sessions are outdoors, casual, relaxed & fun! Perfect for couples, families with newborns through adult children, and multiple generations.
Business Portraits
I provide business portraits, corporate headshots, and personal branding sessions with a natural look and feel. Ask for a custom quote for multiple employees for your business.
Children’s Portraits
My Children’s Portrait events are for 12 or more children at preschools, for parent groups and mom’s clubs, and select Bay Area photo events. For babies through high school seniors.
Welcome!
I’m Shelly Rivoli, a Bay Area portrait photographer based in the Berkeley and El Cerrito region of the East Bay. I specialize in fun and relaxed photo sessions for families and couples, high school seniors, children, and business professionals.
TESTIMONIAL
Shelly has been taking our family photos for a few years now. She is SO good with our little girls and captures their personalities perfectly.
She makes us all feel at ease during the session and is very thoughtful even when it comes to the shyer personalities in our family. She is incredibly talented and definitely knows her stuff from the locations to the natural lighting. I can’t recommend her enough!
