My Family Portrait Session!

[corrim]

Why is taking pictures of ones own family so stinkin difficult. I find that I

have patience beyond belief with children who pull down my backdrops, break

things (Oh, thats ok..dont worry about it) move all over the place. I take it

like a pro. However, last evening I attempted to take portraits of my own

family. I believe at one time my head spun completely around. The results

can be seen here http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=635187 my

oldest daughter, who by the way was having a "totally sucky hair day", took

most of the shots with my husband and I. Have you had same experiences or do

I need medication?<div></div>

[phoneguy]

I have the same experience all of the time. Your family doesn't see you as a "professional"...They see you as mom. If you all went to a studio to get your shots done, everyone would be on their best behavior.

 

With mom taking the photos, they are able to say..."Can I see them, I don't like my hair in that one, let's take 500 more until I find the one I look perfect in regardless of how everyone else looks in the picture.

 

Such is life. Accept it, have fun with it. I've just learned that shooting family portraits isn't going to be much of a learning experience, so we just screw around until we get one good one.<div></div>

[steve_bellayr]

You did an outstanding job. It is extremely difficult to get pictures of anyone. 40 per cent on a roll of 24 is exceptionally good, even then you need to fudge it. Again, it seems like that session was a success to me.

[w.smith]

With flash you shouldn't have to much of a problem with moving subjects, Corri.

 

However - applying the rule: "shoot kids & animals at eye-level; THEIR eye-level" - I would

have chosen a lower point-of-view for many of those photos to get a horizontal plane

Field-of-View, instead of looking down on your subject.

Obviously, a 'waist level' angle finder, or articulated LCD, would have been very convenient

here. But alas, the XT doesn't have that.

[machts gut]

Although I personally don't like studio portraits very much, you did a good job, Corri. My favourite is the fifth, which also means: You can break the eye-level-rule!

 

Stefan

[dale_golemon]

First I think the pictures turned out nice congratulation?s. Yes doing them yourself is not easy to do the kids are at home with Mom & Dad and getting them to take directions and set still is next to imposable as apposed to having someone else do it.

 

Dale

[corrim]

A sincere thank you! The one nice thing that came out of it was, while looking at the pictures of my husband I realized once again how incredibly handsome he is!! Yeah for me!<div></div>

[leimy_wu]

You have a lovely son and handsome husband~~~and your pic is so nice~