I’ve read lots of articles recently about how Mums should make an effort to take more photos of themselves with their children. Like most Mums I’m usually the one behind the camera, and on the rare occasion someone else is taking a photo I haven’t had any time to make myself look camera worthy so end up hiding from photos anyway.
Baby Charlie is over 20 weeks old and there are about 3 photos of me and him. The days and weeks just seem to disappear and the lovely photo I promise myself I will take each day just doesn’t happen.
Last weekend we went to a beautiful National Trust site with my lovely Mother in Law, so I took the opportunity to try to get that elusive family photo. As it turns out, it’s not just me being behind the camera that hinders our family photos.
Top tips for taking a great family photo
- Make sure the littlest members of the family are at the front and no one has the end of a frube in their mouth.
2. Ask little people to not put their hands in their mouths.
3. Keep everyone in the same place.
4. Try to keep eyes open and again, remove frube wrappers.
5. Don’t forget Mum.
Do you have any more tips for us? I think we’ll try again next time…
It’s so difficult isn’t it to get everyone looking at the camera and not doing something daft. Getting yourself in the picture too often seems like too much to cope with, but it’s well worth it if you can.
And this is the reason we have very few family photos in our house ha ha
Ha ha those did make me laugh! I find it impossible to get a good family photo. I like that last photo with you, I am the same I am always behind the camera and there are very few of me
This is why I arranged for a photo shoot for us all. We take terrible pictures! I was determined to be in front of the camera at least once a year and it has really worked. We are going to book for someone to do it again next year.
haha that made me giggle, your so right its hard co-ordinating everyone but I think those funny imperfect pictures are still perfect in there own way! x
Haha !! You really describe this well.