Posing A Family & What They Should Wear ~ Tucson Portrait Photographer

I am Michelle Rasmussen, Tucson Portrait Photographer, owner at Wondertime Photography, and I would like to share with you two important things today about family portraits. Whether you are having your portraits taken or you are taking a family's portrait, these are two important things to know which will improve your photo.

I am going to show you 5 photographs that all have these 2 important factors in common that make them stand out from other family photos that do not have them:

1. All the families are posed so that their heads make a triangle if you were to "connect the heads as dots", except one, and that photo has the family making motion (walking), so it's ok.

2. All the families are pretty much following the rule of dressing as if they are one person and there is no more than one pattern and the rest of the outfits are picked from those colors.

Here baby is wearing the one pattern, mom is wearing two colors from her dress and dad is wearing a lighter shade from dress - perfect!

Here Baby is wearing a black and grey striped dress, so mom and dad each are wearing one of the solid colors from her dress and it works perfectly with this blue door!

Same family, parents didn't have to change, but they changed baby's dress, and all mom had to do was slip on a pink sweater to change the look of the entire family's "outfit" - I love it!

Toddler is wearing black and silver stripes and a "pop" of pink so mom and dad keep their clothes toned down so the attention will stay on her and mom's belly. Lovely!

This mama could be a stylist! This outfit is perfect, I don't know how else to describe it! I just love it, and then when we found the houses to go with them, it got even better! YaY!

The more people you start to add to the session, the harder it can be, but it's totally worth it to take the time and effort to do this as your photos will look so much better if the subjects are coordinated nicely with one another and your photographer takes the next step to pose them so that you get eye pleasing "connect-the-dot-triangles" with your subjects heads.

I hope you find this article helpful, if you do, let me know by leaving a comment down below. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below also. Thanks! ~Michelle

Michelle Rasmussen specializes in Custom Children's Portraiture and Lifestyle Photography, from Maternity & Newborn through High School Senior Portraits, including Family Portraits and everything in between. To see her portfolio and additional information, please visit the main website at: www.wondertimephoto.com Thanks!

Comments

Great post Michelle! I love that photos you chose to support your points about what you should wear.

P.S. That is such a good rule of thumb about the connecting the "dots" to make a triangle. Great tip. I'm going to pay attention to that next time I'm taking pictures. Thanks!

Posted by: Michelle | January 25, 2013 at 06:53 PM