November 18th, 2008 | 
Author: Family Portrait
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Family Portraits
Family portraits are a cherished part of everyone's memories, when they look back on their childhood. With today's digital portraits, the quality of the photographs is even better than it was in the past. Portraits of your family will provide a nostalgic look back at your family's growth. A portrait will show the lifestyle and dynamics of your family, and there are some proper or traditional ways to dress for family portraits.
It's helpful to have your outfits coordinated for portraits. You don't want all the clothes matching, unless you're going that direction in a humorous way, but they should be complementary in style. Basically, all should dress casually or in a more formal way, but all should be the same.
Select clothing that is appropriate for the setting of your family portraits. If you have an autumn backdrop, you might wear khakis or jeans. If you use a background that is more plain in color, you will be able to show off semi-formal or formal wear.
Subtle patterns and solids in clothing lend themselves well to family portraits. If you wear bolder designs, this may pull the attention away from the people in the photograph. Allowing the clothes to complement each other makes your picture more natural, and digital family portraits will show everything more clearly and effectively. FlashPortraits.com can make your family portrait an affair to remember.
You should wear clothing that has a timeless quality, and wear something appropriate for the photograph. Your age can help to determine the clothes you will wear, rather than dating the portrait with clothes more comfortable in a previous time.
Be sure you wear correct socks and shoes for family portraits. If you are getting a full-body shot, your feet will be in the picture, so if you need to wear something else later in the day, take a change of clothes along. If you are having more than one portrait taken and will be wearing other clothes for other pictures, take along socks and shoes that go with each outfit.
Some colors go well in family portraits, including black, navy blue and earth tones. These are especially suited to outdoor photographs. If you wear white, you may be lost in a lighter background. Bright colors don't work well for family portraits, since they can alter the look of your skin tone.
Women in family portraits should wear only a minimum of jewelry, and if you wear make-up, it should look natural. Outside of this, a bit of blush or lipstick is OK, so that it will show up properly. You can take a small make-up bag with you too, in case you want to slightly change your look, or make adjustments. Wear clothes that fit properly, rather than baggy clothing, which can make you appear larger.
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Women in family portraits should wear only a minimum of jewelry, and if you wear make-up, it should look natural. Outside of this, a bit of blush or lipstick is OK, so that it will show up properly. You can take a small make-up bag with you too, in case you want to slightly change your look, or make adjustments. Wear clothes that fit properly, rather than baggy clothing, which can make you appear larger.
How to take my own family portrait?
Hi all! I've been getting requests from my family for a professional-looking family portrait of my husband and I and our kids, like what you'd get from Olan Mills. How should I go about doing this? I need some suggestions on lighting, backdrops, camera settings, etc. I've never taken a portrait photo before, just candid shots, so I'm kinda clueless. Thanks for any advice.
Tibi - just because I'm a top contributor doesn't mean I know everything about everything. That's a pretty stupid assumption.
As someone who has professionally photographed families for decades..way before digital....I can tell you that it can be accomplished. First, highly doubt you are about to go out and spend hundreds on lighting,stands, posing stools and backdrop. Since Olan Mills style is FAR from the top of the line, you might as well just go to Sears or JC Penny's. If not, get someone else to snap the shutter so you won't look stressed. There are posing patterns...it depends on the age and amount of people in the image. Very basically, try to form a pyramid shape and don't block each others faces, stay close have each head on a different level but everyone on the same focal plane.
Find nice open shade...use a soft fill in flash...open the aperture to let the background soften, keep the camera far enough away so you are not using wide angle and get distortion.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Setting-Up-Group-Portraits&id=120315
I found a site with a bit of good info for you
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