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:
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.
As 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.
This family of five was an older family, with a range of teenagers. We find teenagers tend to approach photoshoots in two different ways:
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).
At 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!
With 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.
More 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.
On 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.
A big bright white background, with mum and her son wearing stronger, dark colours makes for a set of lovely, contemporary family portrait photos that look fabulous as beautiful artwork on the wall.
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