This is my favorite of all!
Ok, you all know my kids are insane! They run, never walk, and faster than anything we could hope to keep up with. They never stop, they're always moving, and jumping, and going. It's great, and we love it, and it's so much fun, but when it comes to taking pictures, especially with someone who is completely unprepared as to the crazyness of our family, it's definatly not an easy thing. Which is why it's crazy of us to even think about trying to get family photos done. However, we did. I mentioned it in a past post, but we finally now have all the photos from that day. I'm posting some of my favorites. We went with Vicki Pallan, who was really nice, however for our personal needs and crazy kids a little under experiance imo. We have a session booked in January with a different photographer, hopfully she'll be able to get more of the four of us. I look at our photos of the four of us, and I can physiclaly see us fighting those strong willed little ones. If anyone has any suggestions as to what we can try for better results next time I'm all ears. But for now, here are the best ones from this try.
I think they're great Lily. Sometimes candids are all that some people can get with rambunctious kids. My only suggestion is keep trying every year for family pics (don't do it more often because if you don't notice a difference in attention spans, it might not matter who is taking them, it just might not work) with age they will be calm enough. The ages they are at are the hardest and unless you have docile children - almost all kids are similar from one degree to another. If the photographer is getting frustrated and not shooting because of behavior, tell them not to worry about getting posed shots and just keep shooting candidly and you'll be happy with that. If they know that then they will feel less stressed over it and hopefully you'll get some great natural photos.
ReplyDeleteYou guys look great! Taking family pics is stressful IMO too!
ReplyDeleteYou did better than we did Lily! WE ended up deciding to just do individual shots of the kids. We didnt even try to get all three together. Maybe next year :-)
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