Working Again - Giuliano Family

For the next two months I have scheduled up photo sessions for many of my friends and their kids in order to create a new portfolio in a certain style I want to achieve with my business. I have a lot of good pictures of different families and children I have shot over the years, but I have a different vision now. I pretty much understand how I am going to run my business, where I will shoot consistently and I am really trying to control my vision by only shooting in certain light, which is what I will be working on for the next couple months.

Well the first victims in me achieving my vision is my very good friend and college roommate, Christine. Originally we were just going to photograph her son Enzo, but decided to get some family shot in there.

Christine's photo shoot was interesting because I never got a chance to talk to her prior to our session and we scheduled it about 3 days before we were to shoot, so it was spontaneous.  Since this was the case I decided to show up to her house an hour before we needed to start shooting so I could act as her stylist and also scout out some locations. Christine lives about an hour from my house so I couldn't scout it prior to our photo session.

Luckily Christine lives in a beautiful yard with plenty of beautiful light and great landscaping so after finding our outfits and getting the family ready we headed outside.

Enzo was definitely one of my more challenging children I have photographed over the years. This guy would not sit still for a second and when I got him to sit still he was upset over being stopped in his endeavours and barely cracked a smile. He is absolutely adorable and I was able to get him to stop for me a few times.

 

Pretty much every time we stood, sat or just gathered to do the family picture Enzo would squirm out of his parents grasp and try to crawl away. We tried toys, noises, bells, sounds, we finally had a few trick that worked. Lesson learned here, pack a few noise toys and stuffed toys for distraction for the more difficult babies. Although my funky noises did the trick as usual, but I am not sure if it gets the smiles and laughs I am looking for from the kids. Luckily Christine and Marcello were perfect models and knew to look at the camera and not Enzo when he was being challenging. It made my life easier and gave us some good shots to work with. I would prefer bigger smiles from the little guy, but since he is my "nephew" I think he is adorable regardless.

 

 

Just as a side note, unless a picture really calls for it I pretty much decided to shoot in color only. If a picture looks like it might be absolutely stunning in black and white I might offer that option for my clients, but really am going to stick with a strictly color format for now.