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.
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.
When we use a studio we can make the background look a super cool white, like in these beautiful photos (though of course that’s not the only colour). We run a professional mobile studio, so we can bring it direct to your home, if you have the space, or to any other indoor venue.
To see more of these types of photos, why not have a look at our indoor location gallery.
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.
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).
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.
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