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.
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.
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.
Sometimes 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.
With 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.
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!
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