I love when clients want my advice on what to wear to a family photography session. My advice is always the same, chose a color scheme. By color scheme, I don’t mean matching every article of clothing. In fact, I highly discourage that! My example is this: Let’s say you want to choose the color plum. I would suggest the mother wear a shade of plum and an accessory (scarf or shall) that is lilac or light purple. The father could wear a nave blue top to keep it a bit more masculine and the child should wear a top that incorporates similar blues and purples, argyle perhaps? Anyway, that may be a very detailed example, but you get the point.
As I was searching for example to suggest for my spring mini session families, I found a definite trend for children’s clothing this spring. That trend is denim! Of course denim is always the safe choice, but I noticed a theme that in the past was a major faux pas: denim on denim. What I’m seeing is the more denim, the better and I have to say, I love it!
These are some of the cute things I found at H&M, Gap, and Kitson.
These photos were taken from H&M, Kitson, and Gap and are for commentary purposes only.
I had two Valentine’s on Sunday, George and Luis…lots more of these cuties to come!
Sunday, February 14, 2010 Posted in Personal
Yes, I am one of those people. I LOVE Valentine’s Day. It’s a day to celebrate love and to me, that’s an important thing to do. At the least, I hope the day brings you a few extra hugs, smiles, phone calls, kisses, and sweets. Enjoy!
*This photo was taken by my friend Keila the other night when we were painting with light in my living room. Love it!
Each week I learn something (if not lots) about my new camera and how to use it. I learn about the way I shoot and how to improve. This week I decided to get the “self-portrait-challenge” out of the way and learned a ton about how my clients feel behind the camera. I actually think it was the most enlightening challenge yet. Not only did I become disturbingly familiar with my own face, but was also able to play around with the idea of making a portrait flattering. Since the photos were of me, selfishly I was going for the most flattering portrait. It was very interesting to say the least and has changed my perspective. Here are some of my favorites…
Ps. I love my new video light. It made for this perfect warm glow, woot!
by Emily
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