Today’s Fashion Friday was borrowed from a friend (thanks chels). I love pink and blue together — and this is perfect for clients who have sessions coming up in the next couple of weeks! You can easily have a more fall like look even in the summer — and not expire from the heat.
These outfits are from the Gap and Children’s place.
If you knew here you would know why this image needs no words!
I think the most difficult part of any photo session is figuring out what to wear. This becomes even more difficult when you find yourself trying to dress not one, not two but sometimes three or more famlies to do a large group portrait.
There are a few options ranging form tradtional to more modern an funky. The key to all of them is to co-ordinate your style. You do not all need to wear kaki pants and white polos to achieve this either, but you do need to plan ahead and all be on the same page.
To start with pick a style. Will you be casual, formal or something in between. Once you have your ’style’ then figure out a color scheme. I love what Megan Cristillodid with a recent large group. The familes all dressed in brown, lime green, organe and white and the results were stunning. Click here to see how to you can match without buying the same outfit for everyone.
Once you have a color scheme then you can start to put things together. I suggest you pick one outfit as the central ‘idea’ and go from there. Just the difference in your starting outfit will take you in different directions.
These three dresses while all in similar color schemes would send me coordinatingmy extended family two different ways. I would have to outfit: a two year old girl, four year old girl, two six year old boys, a 18 year old female, 19 year old male, two thirty something Moms, two forty something Dads and a Grandma.
Inspiration dress A would take me down a road of bright colors and funky outfits. Inspiration dress B would have me picking fun easy styles in knits and mixing solids and stripes and other fun colors. The inspiration dress would having me going more traditional with colored shirts and polos in solid and more muted colors. Each look would be great, but totally different!
In fact I love the idea of Menga’s session so much that I will give a $100 print credit to the first LARGE group that contacts me and is willing to try something similar!
This is what happens when I try to take a photo of my son — it goes from Good to silly in an instant.
Spring is finally here, but in true Minnesota fashion it came late and a bit windy. However when the wind dies down, I try to get out and stretch myself as a photographer. I love to try macro photography with my flowers.
This is a moss rose, just before it’s ready to bloom.
Today I am posting an image I call solitude, because that is something I long for with the advent of summer and both kids home full time.
I am finally back from Vacation! We took the kids to visit my family in Michigan, with a stop in the Wisconsin Dells along the way!
The trip was much less stressful then we had anticipated. Even little K did really well in the car, for being only two and not being able to as many actvities as her brother could. However, when we came home in the early morning hours Sunday, we discovered that our refrigorator had gone out! Let me tell you the mess was amazing. Some things are never meant to be seen totally thawed out, like ice-cream!
The refrigerator fiasco has put me a couple of days behinds so if you are waiting on a client gallery, they all got delayed while I sorted out the repairs yesterday.
In the mean time I can’t have a post without an image. I just love the feeling of this one — from my session with Miss E. What you don’t see is that she is looking at a bunch of kids running along the path a head of her — and you an just tell she wants to go with them!
This is the other point of view from last weeks wordless Wednesday post!!
I rarely enter online contests, but this week at www.iheartfaces.com they have a contest about hats, and well I just couldn’t resist entering!
I just happen to have what I think are some AMAZING hat photos from a tea par–tea! I have so many images of fun hats that I honestly had a hard time figuring out which category to enter, the kids or the adults.
This is my adult category entry:
Kids Entry:
Today I had the pleasure of meeting with Baby C. Baby C is the latest little guy in a long line of baby boys I have been photographing this year. I have not photographed a single baby girl — since the start of this year. The count is starting to get very stacked and I worry that all the fun newborn baby girl things I collected when I had my little one will become burried under all the boy things I am having to now find!
Baby C also has the distinction of being the oldest newborn I have photographed! You can’t tell from this image, but he was very interested in the world around him. He basically wanted nothing to do with having his photo taken and would rather have stared out the window!
Your gallery is coming soon — but for now enjoy your sneak peak!