A Photographer's Delight

Last weekend, a close friend requested a photo shoot of her family. I have photographed her little girl numerous times and it has always been a pleasure. She's a little doll of a girl and her little brother has the most perfect strawberry blonde coloured hair with little curls that Mummy didn't want to cut until after the photographs had been taken...

It had been a hot sunny week, but as luck would have it, the rain arrived that morning, so we did what the British do best and had a cup of tea and waited. When the blue sky crept out from behind the clouds, we took a dash to the park which was wise as the sunshine only lasted an hour.

Usually an hour wouldn't be enough, but within minutes, both children were posing in complete unison and after only 15 minutes I already knew I had enough smiles that would have fulfilled any clients expectations. After a blissful hour of clicking this cute family smiling and laughing together, the clouds rolled over and before the weekend was over, they were all edited on my host page.

These are the shoots I challenge myself on the most. Once I know I have some 'banked' shots, I can then work at trying a few new things out. I came home on a high that day and decided it was high time I took some pictures of my own family!

Troublesome Twins

I was very excited, when I got the last minute phone call to photograph Anna, a little girl I thoroughly enjoyed photographing last year... plus her gorgeous 10 month old twin brothers. Having never photographed twins before, I thought it best to do a little research before I embarked on this new challenge... So I mooched around the web for some of my favourite photographers pictures of twins for inspiration and every thing looked calm, serene and doubly cute when browsing pictures of two cute little nappy clad bodies over one.

Now considering I have a little 10 month old girl and my older child is the same age as Anna, you would think I could second guess what I was in for... how wrong one can be!

It was a very hot afternoon and I was wrong to assume that just because my little girl sits still having not mastered the art of crawling yet, that these little lads were going to sit and stare adoringly into my camera.... at the same time! To make the challenge even harder, I needed Mummy, Daddy, Opa, Oma and of course 2 year old Anna to look into the camera at the same time as well.... 

700 photos later and 4 evenings of editing and I was able to present a shortlist of the photos. Hopefully I have a happy client!!