Celebrating Extended Family, an 80th birthday and a 50th wedding anniversary
If you’re planning an Extended Family session during a Texas Winter, it’s good to consider indoor locations. Then you don’t have to worry about cold, wind, or bad midday lighting.
After learning that most of this family lived in North Austin (and some family members were traveling in from other cities up North), I suggested the A Light Collab studio in Pflugerville as our location.
With various couches and neutral backgrounds to choose from, we were able to get lots of different combinations of family members.
Tips for Extended Family Photo Sessions at A Light Collab studio:
- COMFORT: This indoor studio has plenty of seating, so if you’re rotating family members in and out of shots, the people “off-set” have comfortable places to sit and chat together, either downstairs or upstairs.
- LIGHTING: You can rent continuous lighting with your studio fee. This gave me soft, even lighting that covered all nine family members.
- DISTANCE: If your clients are based in North Austin, this studio is convenient to travel to with plenty of easy parking out front.
- POSING: My top tip for posing large groups is to try and create triangles with positions so your eye moves around the frame. Also – to make sure there are points of connection between each family member.
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Please check out some of my favorite images below and contact me if you’d like to book your own family photo session in or around Austin, Texas.
- What prompted you to have this photo session? We wanted to have family photos now. The occasions that really pushed us to do this is my mother’s 80th birthday, plus my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary!
- What do you plan to do with your digital photos? I am going to have 8×10’s printed of the whole family, plus some 8×10’s of just my husband, me, and our kids, and I’ll see what other pictures I’d like to print. (probably some of the ones of my kids together) Additionally, I’m going to use some kind of online photo service to make a big collage (like 2’x3′) to print on canvas to hang in our living room. We might also use them for our Christmas card for 2024.
- How did you choose your location for your session? We chose inside (Stephanie chose the place for indoors) because the weather is so unpredictable at this time of year.
- What advice would you give to others planning a similar Extended Family photo session? Try to choose 5 colors that everyone wears some combination of. I tried to have us all wear brown/tan/khaki/cream/blue.
- Anything else you’d like to add about working with Stephanie Friedman Photography? We were in a rush to get this done, because my brother and his family were in town only on this weekend. Stephanie was so flexible with the scheduling, and so quick to get back to me. She’s very easy to work with. She was also friendly, warm, and professional.
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