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Family Portraits Places that are good and not expensive?
I am looking for a place to take family pictures but I don’t want to spend alot of money. $100 and under would be nice. It has to be somewhere close to LA.
Los Angeles. I have but I want to know from other people if they are good or not. also alot of places don’t show all their prices.
LA as in Louisiana or LA as in Los Angeles? You’re going to need to be more specific because both areas are quite large.
And honestly, why can’t you use Google?
January 28th, 2010
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What kind of lightning is best for taking family portraits at home?
Without a studio, what kind of light should one use or room to move into when trying to take a portrait of a family member with a regular point-and-shoot camera?
Find a room with a large window and a time of day with a fair amount of light coming in through the window. Place your subject near the window, but not directly in front of it (I feel handicapped without being able to give you a drawing!) and observe how the light looks on them.
To describe the positioning better, start with your subject standing at a right angle to the window, at the edge of the window and a couple of feet into the room. They should be looking across the window opening. Watch the light and move them toward or away from the window opening and toward or away from the wall until you achieve pleasing light. Turn the angle of their head and body also until you achieve the results you are looking for.
Hope that all makes sense.
Kim
January 26th, 2010
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How much should a beginner photographer charge for family portraits?
I have been taking quite a few classes on photography and I have a nice camera and lenses, but this would only be my third group photo shoot. I plan on just giving them a CD with all the good pictures on it and they may do what they please with it.
** They are using them for Christmas card pictures, so that’s why I thought of the CD, and I did think of putting a small thing in the corner saying it’s my work in some way.
You shouldn’t charge. Since you are only a beginner without any real experience. I recommend just asking for a "donation."
They just give you whatever they want to give you, based on your service and the quality of your pictures.
Kind of like a tip, per say.
December 19th, 2009
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Where is the best place to get infant/family portraits done near Syracuse, NY?
I am looking to have family & individual portraits taken this year for Christmas. We have a 4 month old little boy and want to have Christmas pictures taken of him and then casual pictures of us as a family. Where is the best place to have this done where you get the best product for the money?
Don’t laugh … but Target has a pretty decent studio - you can check them out online under target portrait studio - they are reasonable AND they offer coupons online for you to use.
November 25th, 2009
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What are some free/public indoor spaces where family portraits could be taken?
Various people in my family could die at any given moment, so my mom wants to have professional pictures taken of all of us together on Thanksgiving.
However, the number of people that will need to be in the picture is WAY too big to fit into any one room in our house, and some of the old people can’t stand to be kept outside in the cold for too long. Is there anywhere we could go, that would be free and indoors, to have the pictures taken?
We live in NJ, if that detail helps
Hmm, try looking for a place that has a nice staircase. Like the foyer of a theater or the inside of a really nice hotel. You can just ask in advance if you’d be allowed to take a picture there. Some big college buildings have nice staircases, and if the building is open over thanksgiving, it will be empty since all the students will be gone.
But if the weather happens to be fairly warm and you do want to try an outdoor photo, I think an shot in a park with all the leaves on the ground would be nice.
November 20th, 2009
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Taking Family Portraits in Brookings SD?
Hi my Brother and Sister In law wanted me to take some family portraits for them since they are low on money this Christmas season, they also have a 1 year old son. Any how I was wondering if anyone knew any good places in Brookings SD that I can take there pics. Like open community areas, plus with our weather. Thanks for your input
Drive around and look for backgrounds at public parks, or public squares. Maybe there is a hotel lobby with spectacular decorating or a staircase. Make sure to ask the management, especially if they are staying there. Even a shopping mall might work, if you can get a view without signage.
In photography you ALWAYS look for the background FIRST. It should be free of any flaws, such as a thermostat on a wall, or a power line on the hill. Often something ugly might be just out of camera view. I shot many great wedding photos right next to a loading dock with dumpsters.
Be sure to look at the prospective background at several times during the day, particularly in early morning and late afternoon when the sunlight is more directional. A great background is of no use if the lighting isn’t there. Take notes and be ready on the day.
November 14th, 2009
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Ideas to create a family portrait gallery?
I want to create a family portrait gallery for my dining room. The wall is a dark red. I want to blow up real pictures in black and white or colour and have them put on canvas, but I am not certain the best frames. I have thought of using old gold frames to mimic and old fashioned gallery.. any other ideas?
I have a rule of thumb????? I put all the black and white photographs in the clip frames and hang together in my office (a lot) in my house. The halls are packed with the Dax frames from Hobby Lobby in 4×6,5×7 and 8×10…(probably about 200 from my grandparents, parents, children as children and now themselves parents and all the grandchildren…informal shots)….then in the living room go all the formal portraits of weddings, graduation from college and med school, etc. which are formally framed….in dining room is a collection of crosses given to me by the kids through the years (of course my good art work is everywhere in the house). If you want to put family portraits in dining room, I suggests the (can’t think of the proper word) brownish to off white replicas of the originals all framed alike. If you choose black and white always use black frames with white matting. I wouldn’t suggest colors in family pictures in the formal dining room as they would be too distracting with china, etc……and they are too informal unless you have a country dining room….enough of my opinion…….good luck…LOVE FAMILY PICS
November 11th, 2009
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How to take my own family portrait?
Hi all! I’ve been getting requests from my family for a professional-looking family portrait of my husband and I and our kids, like what you’d get from Olan Mills. How should I go about doing this? I need some suggestions on lighting, backdrops, camera settings, etc. I’ve never taken a portrait photo before, just candid shots, so I’m kinda clueless. Thanks for any advice.
Tibi - just because I’m a top contributor doesn’t mean I know everything about everything. That’s a pretty stupid assumption.
As someone who has professionally photographed families for decades..way before digital….I can tell you that it can be accomplished. First, highly doubt you are about to go out and spend hundreds on lighting,stands, posing stools and backdrop. Since Olan Mills style is FAR from the top of the line, you might as well just go to Sears or JC Penny’s. If not, get someone else to snap the shutter so you won’t look stressed. There are posing patterns…it depends on the age and amount of people in the image. Very basically, try to form a pyramid shape and don’t block each others faces, stay close have each head on a different level but everyone on the same focal plane.
Find nice open shade…use a soft fill in flash…open the aperture to let the background soften, keep the camera far enough away so you are not using wide angle and get distortion.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Setting-Up-Group-Portraits&id=120315
I found a site with a bit of good info for you
October 26th, 2009
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Poses for family portraits?
We are going to a photographer to get our 1st (professional) family portraits done this weekend and I need some help. We are getting a few different pictures, one of just my boyfriend and I, just the baby, one of all of us, then one with the dogs included.
I look at pictures people have done and it seems like they all have the same poses. Does anyone have any ideas for some original pictures?
Discuss this with the photographer. Photographers HATE it when they come ready and planned for one thing and the client suddenly changes their mind and wants something completely off the wall and different. Talk to the photographer! Let them know they can be as creative as they want! Some photographers love to have that kind of freedom.
Most family portraits are a pretty standard deal which is why they all look similar. The poses are the way they are because the photographer wants to best compliment the people and the way they look. It’s about presentation to the viewer.
October 24th, 2009
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Does anyone know the pictures prices from Growing Family portraits they come to your home for photos and sales
The only own I found was www.growingfamily.com. Call them if this is what your talking about. More and more photographic studios are beginning to offer this kind of service also. You pay an upfront fee and they come to your home at specified periods and document your familys’ life.
You might shop around before settling for the first one you find.
October 22nd, 2009
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