Family Portrait Sittings Don’t worry about poses. Whether you want formal portraits, informal poses or fun family poses, your photographer should be able to direct you to produce natural looking shots where you all look your best. If you’ve seen some ideas in a book or on the internet, by all means take those along and share them with your photographer.

What to Wear?

What you wear can make a big difference to the overall look & feel of your family portraits. The goals in helping you select clothing are:

• to make you the main subjects

• to flatter you and help make you look your best

• to disappear and be a non-issue

So what IS the best thing for people to wear for your family portrait sitting?

I get asked for tips on this a lot by clients. People “hear” funny things about what they should or shouldn’t wear for their portraits and show up in the strangest things that sometimes make you shake your head and say “what were they thinking?”

Here are some of my recommendations on what to wear for a family portrait session

• wear similar plain solid coloured clothing so that we see all of your faces and no one person stands out in group shots. If you wear stripes or flowers, you will stand out from the rest of your group.

• complementary natural plain colours - blue jeans & white tops work well particularly for children, and if you like your figure/physique as this will emphasise it.

There's more information in my free guide.

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