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Family Christmas portraits
Posted onAs Christmas gets closer many parents love to have family Christmas photoshoots – usually so that they can create a set of family Christmas cards. However, many are also wanting to create family albums at this time of the year to remember what their children were like at that stage in their lives.
Jumping Jane
Posted onWe love it when we work with people who are game for giving things a try, as was the case here. This photo was taken during the middle of the day, but we deliberately played with the lighting to make it look like night-time, to add a lot of drama to this energetic and stylish photo.
Sisters together
Posted onRural locations are great for family photoshoots, because everyone can be themselves without worrying about other people. It also means you can get really lovely green backgrounds, like these here, which makes these sisters look great.
Two brothers in the park
Posted onSometimes a simple portrait with a blurred background is the best, like these photos here. Both brothers were wearing casual blue shirts, so these worked really well against the blurred green backgrounds from the park which means, when their mum and dad look at these photos, they’ll concentrate on the faces of their sons, rather than looking at the background.
Evening couples photoshoot
Posted onIn this photoshoot we created a large set of photos of this couple together, as well as some lovely portraits of each of them individually.
A mix of jackets and tops
Posted onIn this photoshoot no outfit ‘changing’ was required, as this woman’s ‘base layer’ of black remained the same – instead, she brought along a blue jacket, a black jacket and a red top. We combined these with a few different backgrounds and very quickly we created a great mix of different looks for her portfolio.
The stylish teenagers
Posted onWith this older family of teenagers we’d already created a wide range of ‘proper’ portraits for the family to hang on their walls at home. It was now time for something a little bit different. As always, we talked through our ideas with them to see how keen they were.
We wanted to do something edgy, with more ‘attitude’, to reflect more of their personalities – a strong, black and white approach helped to create a really elegant style which they all loved.
Summer family photoshoot of a teenage family
Posted onThis 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).
Recreating an old family photoshoot
Posted onAt the start of this family photoshoot the teenage daughter mentioned that the last time they’d had a family photoshoot was well over ten years ago when she and her brothers were much younger – apparently they still had that photo on display in their home, with all three of them as tiny children.
We talked about that photo, which obviously meant a lot to them, and decided to recreate it as best as we could. It sounded easy at first, until we all realised the weight of three teenagers us so much heavier than three tiny children!
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