Family Portraits

Recently I've been asked by family and friends to take some family portraits and I've been happy to oblige! For all of my portraits you'll notice that they're taken outside. Since I don't have a studio, this is what I have to do to get good light. Ideally I'd like to shoot in the early morning or evening when the light is best but let's be honest, I take them at the time when the family (specifically the kids) and ready. Below are the final products.

The Diedes

My sister Catherine asked me to shoot their family this past Sunday.

Top, left to right: Austin, Catherine, & Mark. Bottom, Nathan Mitchell, & Maya.

I shot this one at about 5:00 pm, not the best light but it was overcast. Maya is so cute and she is really camera shy, luckily she posed beautifully for this group shot. Ideally I would have wanted Nathan on the other side of Mark, but being that Maya got right in there and smiled I decided that it wasn't worth the shuffle.

The Hedges
Matt, Shaylin, Emmalyn, & Jayna.

Matt and Jayna are our good friends in AZ. They live in Maricopa and while we were down there visiting last month we stayed at their house for a couple of days. They allowed me to pay them for room and board by me taking some portraits for them. Actually, they said that they were compensating me for the pictures by Jayna giving me a free haircut and Matt taking me out to lunch. Thanks for the self esteem boost guys! This one was shot inside of a dilapidated farm shed. Eventhough we went out at about 2 pm we still got great light in the shade of the building.

The Beckmans
Tessa, Jessica, Halle, & BJ.

This was actually the first family portrait that I have ever taken. BJ and Jessica are some of our best friends and they asked me to take it after they blessed Tessa in July and I thought it turned out wonderful and I wanted to show it off. We shot this at about noon, since we were on the east side of their neighbors house, the shade gave us perfect light.