Before your Family Photo Session...
Clothing coordination is essential. We are happy to schedule a short consultation to assist you with this planning. In general, choose clothing in the same tonal range so that no individual stands out because his or her clothing is too light or too dark compared with the rest of the group. Choose muted plain or very small patterned materials. Long sleeves and long pants are best for adults. Small children look adorable with more skin showing: short sleeves, socks and shoes or bare feet instead of tights. Plain, simple outfits have a timeless appeal.
Eye glasses can be a problem with glare. Either remove them or bring an empty set of frames. Many eye wear vendors will lend you a pair.
Hair and make up: Take some time with this. Consider a department store make up consultant. A bit more than usual is absolutely needed to counteract shine and the color draining effects of studio lights.
Children: Please make sure children are fed before the photo session and are well rested. Tired, hungry children cannot cooperate very long! Mornings, well before lunch and naptime, are usually best. Bring snacks. Please do not require or coach your children to smile. Sweet, natural expressions are charming and wear better in a portrait versus a snapshot. With older children, it often works best to have parents and grandparents remain a few steps away, in the waiting area, during the portrait session.
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About your Baby Bits.
These special portrait sessions are preferably done in black and white, silver tone, or sepia. It can be scheduled from the newborn period through the first year of life but before your baby is walking. It is helpful to have one parent dressed in a dark, long sleeved top and dark pants to act as a background while holding baby for part of the time. (A parent can also be included in a few frames but the main focus is the baby alone). It is better to schedule the family portrait for another time.
Allow 90 minutes as we take the time you need to feed and change your baby in an easy and relaxed pace, especially for the youngest infant. If your baby falls asleep, no problem. Sleeping babies make the best portraits!
Ten “Rules” .. Infants in the Camera Room:
1. Camera rooms make babies hungry. (Plan on feeding your baby sometime during the photo session even if you fed him at home just before leaving for the studio.)
2. You cannot photograph a hungry baby. (We schedule plenty of time for feeding “breaks”.)
3. Babies can count to 8 (as in ounces). (Bring extra. Don’t rush your baby to accept less. We’ll wait.)
4. Schedules are totally irrelevant on photo day. Just getting a baby ready seems to use up all their energy. (Don’t plan on multiple appointments that day.)
5. Babies have about 6 smiles during a given time period. Don’t use them up before the photographer is ready! Let’s all save our charming ways for the camera room.)
6. Grandmas always “use them up”. (Again, save those gitchy goos” for the camera room.)
7. Sleeping babies make the BEST portraits. (You won’t get these later as baby grows up.)
8. Babies fight sleep; they’re afraid they will miss something. (We provide a quiet, warm environment with soothing music.)
9. Babies like to do what they can do and nothing less (sit up, stand, walk, etc). (So, please, don’t delay scheduling baby’s sitting portrait until he is already standing.)
10. A baby photographer’s greatest skill has little to do with fancy cameras, artistic set design or posing and composition. It is simply PATIENCE. We have it!! (But baby’s 2 year old sibling probably doesn’t. So arrange to leave brother or sister home with a sitter, if at all possible.
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