This family of five was an older family, with a range of teenagers. We find teenagers tend to approach photoshoots in two different ways:
- if they’re the ones who requested the photoshoot, they’ll be the keenest people in the world,
- but if they’ve been ‘encouraged’ to come along, then they’re much more likely to hold back and be ‘not bothered’.
However, we find both sets of teenagers are the same – they’re both super-interested if we get them involved. We therefore do what we always do with children of all ages – get to know them and ask what they want to get out of the photoshoot and what they would like.
In this family, for example, the daughter was keen from the outset on getting involved, however, the two sons were really not interested in the slightest. We therefore did the ‘proper’ photos first – those shown below – that the parents and daughter were keen to have. Afterwards we changed our approach to do what all three siblings wanted (which you can see in this other post – The stylish teenagers).
