If you want great photos that make your family look really natural, then you need to have an enjoyable time. As you can see from these photos we encouraged the family to lark around however they wished – we do this for two reasons:
We like to find out the hobbies and interests of those in our family photoshoots, as it makes for some interesting extra photos. During this photoshoot we quickly found out this young lady was a dancer and her brother was a skateboarder. So of course we encouraged them to do each to give the family some extra photos for their family album, which they hadn’t anticipated.
Dad and son, plus mum and daughter – both very special combinations. We try not to over-pose people, as we’d prefer you to look as natural as possible. So with families we try to do what we call ‘Light Posing’, where we’ll slightly guide you into the position and pose, but we’ll then try and encourage you to ‘own it’, as this family have done here, where they look really natural and comfortable.
You’ll find our approach to working with families applies to children of all ages, young and old. We’re always keen to get them involved in what we’re doing – we want them to be active participants, rather than bored bystanders who just get told how to stand. We work closely with your children to allow them to have some informal fun time and to help us create a memorable experience for all of you.
Here are some of our favourite photos from this family photoshoot – it was really difficult to choose, as there were so many beautiful photos. The photoshoot was such fun, as we’d allowed time for the girls to play, relax and to be themselves.
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We love hats – they’re a great way to make you stand out and look eye-catchingly different. Here are some examples of customers who’ve worn hats during our photoshoots.
In a single photoshoot, with a change of clothes, a jacket and a coat – we were able to create a wide variety of wallart for this mum and her daughter. We always suggest that if you can, please bring along a spare outfit, or an extra coat or jacket (or both, as was the case in this photoshoot). That way we can make a single photoshoot look like two or more photoshoots.
If you’ve seen our Beautiful portrait photos of a young girl post, then you’ll have seen how great those photos are – they’re beautiful wall art to display around their home. But to do this we encouraged this young lady to lark about as much as possible in between the ‘proper’ photos. We always find that doing this allows children to trust us a lot more, as they know they can be themselves.
Here are some examples of what we mean. These photos are great in a fabulous album, which the family can look at for years to come as their daughter grows older, as they really show off her fun personality.
There’s a saying that we all know very well… “never work with children or animals”. Well, we completely disagree – we love working with children (and animals). 
Yes of course they have their own mind and can be temperamental. And of course they just want to go off and do their own thing, which is often the opposite of what you want them to do. And yes they won’t ‘behave’. But that’s what we love about them. They have their own unique character and that’s what we strive to capture when we work with you. These are the memories you’ll cherish and want to remember forever.
There are a number of things we do to ensure you and your child, or children, have a great time, as well as making sure you have some fabulous wall art to display around your home:
In our experience the best thing we can do for a smooth family photoshoot is to get your children involved – so we do this by getting down to their level in two important ways:
Depending on the age of the child(ren), and whether they’re tired or hungry, we find they usually go through the following phases during a photoshoot. Because we know this is their emotional journey it puts us in a good place to change what we do, depending on how everyone’s feeling at the time:
It could be any or all of these, depending on what’s required:
We almost always find that children, no matter how young or old, will have an opinion on what they wish to do in front of a camera. We always find the best way to work with children is to ask them what they’d like to do then, at some stage during the photoshoot, we indulge them and let them do exactly that. In every case where we’ve done this, they’re over the moon that someone listened to them and that they were able to have their say.
If we can’t get your lovely Small Person(s) to look exactly how you’d like them to look in your photos, then together we’ll do the best we possibly can to make sure that we really capture that sparkle in their character that truly makes them who they are – and what you love dearly about them. So even if they’re not giving you the beautiful Mickey-Mouse-smile that you’d love them to share with us, then we’ll try hard to capture an adorable mischievous look, or a part-hidden shy face behind your trouser leg, or even a beautiful sad face – all of which can look adorably cute and will form part of your lovely memories of your wonderful family for years to come.
It sounds easy to say, but it’s difficult to do – yet it’s really important.
We don’t want you just to have a set of photos – we want you to have had a good time together too.
We’ve done this many times in the past – we feel we do this well, but don’t just take our word for it – have a look at What Parents Say About Our Family Photoshoots to see some of the actual quotes of our previous customers.
As a parent or grandparent you’ll know how quickly time flies when you have young children in your life. It’s these memories that we aim to capture, as these are the important memories that you’ll cherish for years and decades to come and hand down to your children to one day show their children.
We love how happy and relaxed this Italian family look in this lovely portrait of all of them together on a family holiday trip to London.
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