GET THE KIDS

INVOLVED

THE HARDEST part of a

family shoot is winning the

kids over. So get them

involved by showing them

some of the pictures you

take as you go along. Be

sure to give them a high

five so they know they’re

doing a good job too!

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THEAPPRENTICE

HOT

SHOT

LOUIS’S COMMENT

Moving into our afternoon session

we had a second family to work

with: mum Karis and her two daughters

Esmae, and toddler Florence. They girls

arrived with several different outfits but I

thought the red dresses they started out in were fantastic as

they really popped out of the greenery in the field behind.

Following Catherine’s advice we just let them go where they

wanted at first to have some fun. So when Esmae without

direction hugged her younger sister and pulled a cheeky face

I just had to get it. Using a wide aperture of f/1.6, like

Catherine suggested, I had a shutter speed of 1/2000 sec so

the picture came out totally sharp – it’s definitely one

of my favourite photos from the day.