So many times I will have clients email me and ask what they should wear to their session. This is such a tough question because the answer really depends on who you are as a family. My feeling on photography is that the photos should represent you as you are on a daily basis. Should you come in sweats and pjs? Probably not. But the main idea is to have you and your family (especially little ones) wearing something that they are comfortable in so that their focus is on having fun and not tugging at their clothes. The photo shown here depicts a family grouping that has similar colors throughout that pick up on eachother to accent everyone in a complimentary way.  There are so many ways to dress for your session, and remember – the most important thing is to be comfortable and to have fun!

Typically when I plan out my own kids outfits (for photos…not everyday! ) I choose one shirt or dress and pull the other pieces from there. There are also times where I will dress my boys in the same or similar shirts that coordinate with my daughter’s outfit, partially because I like it, and partially because it annoys my brother in law. A win-win .

Just Monday I took my three young ones to a new spot to try out some photos. We rushed home from school and I pulled a shirt out for Miss C. The shirt was mainly brown with some orange and other colors in it (although a bit more purple than I would have liked). I then pulled a mostly orange shirt for Mr J and a different little shirt for Mr M that had orange and brown running through it as well as some lighter colors. So although all shirts were not the same, they all had the same basic colors in them (and if I would have planned a little more ahead, I probably could have done a better job coordinating, but on the spur of the moment, it worked fine!) For instance, Miss C’s shirt had words on it, which is something I would not recommend as it can be distracting. I also would have preferred for her to have a different color of jeans so that they didn’t stand out as being different from the boys, but that entailed doing laundry, and we just didn’t get that far yesterday

Please excuse the not so technically perfect photo above…it seems as though my children are getting a little tired of being in front of the camera. Imagine that I guess I’m paying for acting the same way for my mother’s camera when I was young!