Rural 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.
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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.
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!
Loving photos of this young boy with his parents
Posted onWith all families you get to see lots of love and affection on display and this one was no exception. We wanted to capture that beautiful family love in these photos, where you can see this young boy showing his love for each of his parents.
Very young children, like this young lad, have super short attention spans. The only way we were able to get these lovely photos was by letting him run around and have lots of fun in-between the ‘proper’ photos, as you can see from this ‘time to play at a photoshoot‘ post.
Summer family photoshoot in the park
Posted onMore photos from our family photoshoot in the park during the summer. Some of these were our ideas, whilst some were the daughter’s ideas – we always try to encourage children to give us their suggestions, as it makes them feel really valued, which does wonders for their self-esteem, as well as keeping their attention.
A beautiful family photoshoot in the summer
Posted onOn a summer’s evening in the park, with some natural green backgrounds, we had a lovely family photoshoot of this young lady and her parents, which looked great in beautiful wall art.
As usual, we find we can only create this lovely memories after allowing children to have time to play – she was at the age where she was happy to try lots of things, as you can see from our other blog post – Acrobatics in the park.
Acrobatics in the park
Posted onAt this family photoshoot in the park we let this confident young lady dictate a lot of what we were doing – this included showing us the various things gymnastics things she could do…
Our approach paid off, because this kept her engaged for long enough that we were able to get some great family portraits afterwards, as you can see in this other post – A beautiful family photoshoot in the summer.
Many family photos are worth doing twice
Posted on…especially if it gets the kids really involved and enjoying themselves more, as it often means the ‘better’ photos will look more natural, because your children feel more relaxed (and the funny versions are great for a family photo album).
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