Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 1:55:22 PM
Hiring a photographer to take a family picture is always a crapshoot. Regardless of the photographer's talent level, the success or failure of family photographs is solely dependent on the crankiness and reflux level of the children involved. For some reason, babies and toddlers don't grasp that the pictures being taken will exist until the end of time. Why can't newborns refrain from vomiting until the session is over? All I want is one photograph in which every person is looking in the same general direction. I'm not even asking for a smile, although that would be fantastic. It doesn't even matter to my kids that every dollar we pay for every minute over the inital 30 minute sitting fee is coming out of their college funds. Sigh.
Nevertheless, I am once again going to subject my babies and myself to another stressful photo shoot next week. The photographer has already emailed asking what kind of photo settings I prefer. "Duh, gee George, I dunno." I guess we could go with the ever-popular "Children In Front of a White Wall," but I'm considering requesting something a little spunkier. Everyone who is anyone has a photo or two of themselves in front of retro backgrounds. I would hate to deprive my children of such entertaining memories. My list is down to the following three options:
The Glamour Shots Pose:
Picture in front of a laser background:
Classic Olan Mills options:
The beauty of any/all of these options is that I will be able to blackmail my children with them for years to come.
Until tomorrow.
~H
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