A local park offered us the chance to roam free in the gardens, and to create some lovely, natural-looking portraits. The first of these was staged deliberately, but the others were achieved by letting her wander about the park and to just be herself.
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Candy-striped pink studio portrait
Posted onA few props or accessories can go a long way with children during a photoshoot, so please do bring some along if you feel they’d help.
In this studio family photoshoot we allowed extra time for this young girl to play around and experiment a little, which gave us some great additional photos. Wearing candy-stripe pink gave a good contrast against the white background for these portraits.
Christmas studio portrait
Posted onChristmas is coming and it’s time to get the family Christmas cards printed, so time for a fabulous studio portrait session to get a range of great festive photos for the family and friends to see. Amazing how a Santa’s hat and some tinsel adds that festive touch. We encouraged this young lady to bring along her favourite teddy on this occasion, as it allowed her to dress him up and offer us even more lovely family photos of her having a lovely relaxing time.
Young girl playing in the garden
Posted onAgain, props to the rescue – if you give a child something to do that they enjoy, you’ll get some great portrait photos that really start to capture the things about them that you love to watch.
Time for some fun exercises in the studio
Posted onHere are some energetic moments in the studio – when a young child’s attention starts to wander, it’s time to get them to do something fun so they don’t feel they’re always being told what to do, which isn’t fun for anyone (adults included!).
We always try to give enough time for these unplanned moments to happen. Yes of course these aren’t the photos you’d hang on your wall (we had plenty of others for that purpose), but they’re definitely the photos you’d want in an album after the photoshoot as a record of what your child was at that stage of your life. We find parents love these extra, super-informal photos in their albums.
Location portraits of a young girl
Posted onWe travelled to the grounds of West Wycombe Park to take some outdoor portrait photos in the grounds and gardens. We knew this location would provide a lush green background for the photos, so we suggested complementary pinks and blues for the clothes, which work well together against the surrounding greens.
Portraits of a young girl and her doll
Posted onPretty pastel-striped clothes for a bright and contemporary-looking family photoshoot in the studio with a white background. Bringing along a favourite toy, and having it feature in some of the photos, has the dual purpose of providing some lovely ‘special moments’, but it also helps a child to relax and feel more comfortable, especially if we’re doing the photoshoot away from their home.
Fun and games with studio portrait photos
Posted onAs is often the case, we’ll usually let very young children play around first, so they get used to what we’re doing. This often leads into something approaching a game, which they enjoy. On this occasion we found I had a little ‘helper’ who wanted to assist us in taking the photos. This approach helps children relax and get used to what’s going on – that way we’ll create a set of lovely studio portrait photos.
Fun times in a studio photoshoot
Posted onIn this family photoshoot we wanted to create an environment for lovely smiles and laughter for some really endearing photos. Unsurprisingly ‘Little Miss Mischief’ was around at the start, which we’d already allowed for, knowing how young children would rather just play around than have their photograph taken.
Lucky her mum also wanted to take part in ‘the game’ that took place, so we were able to create some lovely informal photos to go in the family album.
First birthday studio photoshoot
Posted onThis was a studio photoshoot on a young girl’s first birthday. For the first part of the session we got everyone relaxed by messing around a little bit. The aim wasn’t to get any great photos, but to put everyone at ease to make the later ‘proper’ photos work out much better.
Although ‘Miss Small Person’ tried her best to pop the balloon with her finger nails, we eventually managed to create some beautiful photos of this first birthday celebration.
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