Family Portrait Session

Two weeks ago we headed out for this family portrait session on multiple locations. We had two hours to make it work, so as usually planning was key here. The sun was quite bright already when we started which gave us thinking to do  for some of the spots we had chosen for several portraits.  The sun really became an issue after we moved to the second location in the field, the yellows got really bright here and a haze made the sky quite dull, but the set was planned with a strobe in mind which solved both issues. A little piece of advice here : if you ever have to walk into a field like that, …. leave the lens cap on.

For the last location we prepared only one set and left the kids running around and photographed them playing and interacting with eachother. We felt that this was a more natural approach and it actually worked quite well.

The gear we used :

• 2 Canon 5D’s
• 24-105mm F4
• 70-200mm F2.8
• 17-40mm F4
• Elinchrom D-Lite4
• Canon Speedlite
• Lastolite Tri-Grip Reflektors
• Explorer battery pack

You can see some behind the scenes shots here.