To ensure that the finished portrait is a work of art that you will love to hang on your wall,
we ask for all members of your family to come to the portrait session in color coordinating clothing.
Tops should be long sleeved, and solid colors without patterns, illustrations or writing.
For instance, a great theme for summer is white and blue, or white and beige. (details below)
Whole Family:
- jeans, kaki or white bottoms (please pick one for whole family)
- matching color, solid color, long sleeved shirts for everyone
Guys Tops:
- long sleeved white long sleeved shirts or light blue dress shirts.
- Shirts can be worn either buttoned up, or open over pure white T-Shirts.
Girls Tops:
- white tops & whatever color bottom family is wearing
- alternately, sleeveless white or light blue dresses are great to, especially for little girls with graceful little arms.
- Important Note re Sleeves: Some ladies with long slender arms, look great in sleeveless tops. This choice of top is very flattering to a person with a delicate figure type. However for myself, as for many ladies, long sleeved blouses or shirts are the best choice, as they allow the camera to focus on my face.
Shoes:
- Formal Dress Clothing: Whatever shoes are appropriate with the clothing. If doing a lot of outdoor locations, the ladies may want to bring a pair of easy to wear flats or sandals, to slip on between locations, and just put on the formal shoes at the location of each pose.
- Casual Outdoor Summer shoots: easy to remove sandals to walk from one location to the other, summer photos look best with the entire families barefoot. Nothing messes up a beautiful pose and coordinated family clothing like bright running shoes!
Fall & Winter Clothing:
- Excellent themes for fall are blue and black (jeans and black turtlenecks), black & rust (black pants and rust turtlenecks). We will be able to discuss with you the details of the best clothing for you, depending on the style of your home, the location of the shoot, and your goals.
- Casual fall and winter shoots: dark socks and dark shoes (ideally black, or dark brown leather)