Rika, Kobus, Annika & Hein made a visit to our studio over the weekend.  We started our shoot with talking about what camera to buy? SLR cameras (cameras with interchangeable lenses like the Canon 350D) or point and shoot cameras.

Photography tip:
If you are not going to take the time and invest a little bit of money in attending a course on how to uses this camera, I would say rather go for a biggger point and shoot.  You have to think about what you want to do with your camera.  Can you afford to be swopping lenses when trying to photograph that burst of laughter from you little ones ?

Annika and Hein are very protective over their daddy.  When I asked one of them to lie on dad’s back the other would tolerate this only for a few minutes and then run into the shot to declare that it’s their turn now.  Kids tend to go through these phases where they only want their dad or only their mom. 

They really enjoyed throwing and catching the coloured balls.  At one stage t felt like we were staging a war with them as I had made the mistake to tell them to throw the balls at the camera in order to get them to look at me.  Can you imagine their delight when I started juggling with 3 of these balls.  They even attempted to do this themselves which was very cute

Fun family photos requires a litte bit of hard work from the parents side.  The more you play with your kids, throw them in the air, swing them upside down by their feet (yes that’s what I said) the more natural laughs we will get from them.  Taking family photos is usually great fun, it’s like a  play session for your family that lasts about an hour or so.

So bring some of their favourite toys, roll up your jeans, kick off your shoes and come and have some fun with us

Riani 

PS – a family photoshoot is a wonderful idea for christmas gifts – buy a gift voucher for your family for christmas or alternativley bring your family for a shoot and use the photos as gifts in frames, canvas prints, box mounts, storybook albums, puzzles, calendars etc. Give a special gift this Christmas – photos that last a lifetime….