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Make those family photobooks shine


Family portraits are probably one of the most snapped pictures going. From birthdays to weddings to festive periods, people never take as many pictures as they do when they're with their family.

This guide will give you a few ideas as how best to spruce up your family photobooks in the years to come.

Make posed shots a bit candid

Most family portraits are posed – everyone gets hustled together and asked to say "cheese". Now while these do the job, they can look a bit average – they don't really jump out.

Get your subjects to loosen up their limbs, to talk to one another and laugh, but asking them to keep looking straight on. Sure it'll feel a little funny, but as you snap away, you'll find that their relaxed temperaments really show.

Get rid of any noise

If you want the focus of the family portrait to be all about the subjects, ensure you frame the shot in such a way as to make disappear any distractions like other people, food or furniture that's lingering in the background or foreground.

Of course this harks back to background, but more so, it's about high-quality framing on the part of the photographer. You can also consider altering the aperture so the depth of field is focused intently on the subjects. To achieve this opt for a large aperture (smaller f-stop).

Do something different

Instead of getting people to pose standing up or sitting down, react to your subject and their surroundings and mix things up. Depending on where you are, shift the family from conventional spaces like a living room and take them outside, into the garden, lying down perhaps.

Or if you're at a park, arrange your subjects around a play area, sat at benches having lunch. Get them moving around, jumping, interacting and bouncing up and down.

One "technique" that works particularly well is humour – the cameraman has to have an arsenal of jokes, funny one liners and a generally gregarious disposition that puts people at ease
 

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