Photoshoot ideas
Family photoshoot ideas
The best family photographs are of a family doing something, not of a family arranged. Plan an activity and let the pictures happen inside it.
Photoshoot ideas
The best family photographs are of a family doing something, not of a family arranged. Plan an activity and let the pictures happen inside it.
In short: The best family photographs are of a family doing something, not of a family arranged. Plan an activity and let the pictures happen inside it.
Families who want one good picture together, and who know from experience that getting everyone to look at a camera simultaneously is not realistic.
Everyone moving together, holding hands, shot from in front and behind. It solves small children completely, because they are allowed to be in motion.
Piled together, undressed styling, morning light. The most honest family frames anyone gets.
Hands, mess, faces reacting. Nobody has to pose because everyone has a task.
Ten minutes, everyone in coordinated colours, shot properly. Do it first, while the children still have patience, then abandon it.
Five frames of the couple without the children. Almost every family gallery is missing this and almost every couple wants it.
One portrait per child, on their own. They will be the photographs you return to.
Deliberate chaos — running, being lifted, laughing. Fast shutter, no instructions.
Hands, shoes lined up, a child's grip on a sleeve. The connective tissue of a gallery.
Somewhere the children already like, so the session is not their first encounter with the place. A park, a common, a beach, or your own home. Home is underrated: it needs no travel, there are toys, and it is where the family actually exists.
Check the exact landowner before fixing the call sheet. London parks, streets and private estates do not share one photography rule; the location guides name the responsible authority and the date on which its guidance was checked.
Mariya charges £300 per hour for fashion, portrait / personal branding and brand / commercial photography. The booking includes 10 retouched photographs for the whole shoot, delivered within two weeks. Bring your own wardrobe at no styling charge, or add clothing, accessories and shoes supplied by Mariya at £100 per look. Studio hire and applicable travel are separate.
A shared palette of two or three colours, at most one pattern, and clothing the children are comfortable in. Matching outfits photograph as a uniform.
You do not. You give the family an activity — walking, baking, playing — and photograph inside it. Static group frames are taken early and briefly.
About an hour. Beyond that, young children are finished and the pictures show it.
Send the date, location and what you need photographed.