Large Group Sessions

Some helpful tips for large groups and extended family pictures...

• Coordinate what everyone will wear.
  • Have everyone wear the same or similar colors, or...
  • Have smaller groups/families wear the same color but different from the larger group. This can look nice and makes it easy to recognize family groups
    
    
• Wear "Portrait smart" clothes.
• Consider black or khaki pants with white shirts.
• Jeans look nice for outdoor sessions.
• Keep the outfits simple and without patterns. This is especially important
  in a large groups in order to keep the focus on the faces and not the clothes.
• Photographically, lighter shirts will reflect up to your face and lighten it.
  With dark colored shirts, faces can tend to take on that color and absorb the light.
• Also pay attention to everyone's socks and shoes! White can appear far
  brighter and more annoying than you would expect.
  
  
• Hair cuts and glasses.
  • For those who wear glasses, consider removing the lenses or going without.
    Unwanted glare can occur and it is hard to see a persons eyes with the lenses in and cannot always be edited out.
  • Avoid getting a new hair style right before the session. It's best to have this done
    1-2 weeks before to let it grow out.