How To Take Your Own Family Portraits

Often if not every time my clients come back with fun ideas for the their shoot and we pick up from there to work on the logistics.

How to take your own family portraits. Here are the rough steps I take when doing a group self-portrait. Youve gathered the family found the perfect location and convinced a friend to be your. Get your subject to hook a finger on their belt or through a belt loop.

Put Your Subjects at Ease. How to Take Your Own Self and Family Portraits by William Booth We receive so many comments that say something along the lines of I take great portraits of my friends but they never take any great portraits. Thats one classic family picture ideas.

The convention is that the perfect portrait focal length is 85 or 100 mm. Find the ideal background for your shot. LIGHTING Set up your lighting.

I LOVE creating personalized goodies for my home and family and as soon as I stumbled upon this simple way to create adorable illustrated portraits I was hooked and Im not being paid to say this. To create those diagonals consider each family members height as you set up the pose. If your subject is standing against something have them cross one foot over the other toe down.

It is really hard to take your own photos if you are relying on the timer because you are constantly moving back and forth to reset the photos. Get your camera onto a tripod and set up the wireless remote. This will nicely light one side of your subjects face.

Sure you can try. Once you know where youre shooting direct your subjects into the frame. We shoot a lot of our family portraits with a Canon 70-200 f28 at 70mm with a shutter speed somewhere between 1200 and 1400.