Relax and Enjoy Your Lifestyle Family Session

As an experienced Clearwater lifestyle family photographer, I am here to help you prepare your family for their upcoming session! Maybe you booked your Clearwater family session with me or have been too scared to get all of your kids together for a professional family portrait. Either way, I am here to help! It can seem overwhelming trying to get everything together and investing in family session can put even more pressure on everyone. My goal for every session is to have fun and let it be stress free! Here are some of my tips to help your Clearwater family session go smoothly!

• First and foremost, I want you to know that I am SO EXCITED to capture your family portraits! Meeting new people and capturing your sweet family is something I will always be so honored to be a part of.
• Choose your date and time-The lighting is best 1 hour after sunrise or 2 hours before sunset. This is also known as the “golden hour.” This creates the best lighting and the dreamiest looking portraits. When booking, if your children do best after breakfast, let me know! If they do better in the afternoon after a nap give me a heads up! I can work around different lighting situations, but a sleepy/cranky kid only lasts so far.
• Location location location! – When picking out locations for your Clearwater family portrait session keep in mind the feel you would like to have. Will urban and brick environments work best? Do you want to be on the beach? Or do you want to find a quiet park or garden with neat looking trees? Many options will work well. If you have special access or guest passes to use at a museum or botanical garden or a relative with a very old truck, now is the time to use that connection!
• What to wear- Moms, I suggest you pick out your outfit first, and then work everyone else around that choice. Pick something you feel comfortable in. Dresses flatter the best, and its fun to splurge and pick out something you have had your eye on. A beautiful flowy dress? Maybe a fun tool skirt? There is nothing wrong with going a tad more formal for these images. As for colors, neutral softer tones pair well with the beach and green landscape we have here in Clearwater Florida.
• Styling your session-I am a fairly low prop type of photographer. I rely on the natural surroundings, park benches and ground when photographing. Feel free to bring a hat, blanket, special item or floral crowns or bouquet to your session to add a pop.
• Prep your family- I am great with kids! No, seriously. I have hardly met a kid that won’t warm up to me. I have tricks in my back pocket if I need to use them. Its also perfectly ok if not everyone is smiling at the camera at all times. This gives us variety and a chance to show your family in natural settings and natural poses. Some kids might be more shy so tell them up front what’s going to happen. Tell them a friend will be taking their photographs and that we are going to a park/beach to play and have fun. Show them old family sessions or pictures of them. Plan a reward (not bribe lol!) for the whole family to enjoy after the session. Tell them everyone will go out for ice cream or the movies after the session. Whatever helps bring together the family.
• Prep your man-Now would be a great time to talk to dad as well. Most men can be apprehensive about getting in front of the camera. If you explain how important the session is to you. Empower him to do great and he will understand and go along with the session better. Show him some of my sessions and tell him why you chose me. This can help him process as well.

Portrait Session Guide Included With Each Session

While these tips will get you far, every session that books with me receives a detailed what to wear session guide in their inbox after they book. This has fun photographs and more detailed tips and tricks for your upcoming session. I want my clients to feel prepared and ready to have a blast at their stress free lifestyle family session!

Book your Clearwater Lifestyle Family Session Today

If you have been thinking about booking a session with me and haven’t, now is the time! My calendar books up fast and I would love to get you scheduled. Any questions or if you would like to book, please send me an email. A phone call or text is great too, I cant wait to hear from you soon! 920-602-0923!