Photo inspiration

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhotography/comments/yd9y3x/comment/itrgct2/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Supplies

• [x] Camera body
• [x] 20-60mm
• [x] 85mm
• [x] SD card cleared (ideally x2)
• [x] Batteries
• [x] 2x Light stands
• [x] Reflector clamp
• [x] Reflector
• [x] Flash + Wireless
• [ ] Extra flash batteries

Possible Poses

• Baby as focus with parent hands in frame (85mm)
• Favorite music and dancing
• Sitting reading book or playing with a toy (85mm)
• Climbing in bed looking out the window (85mm)
• Hugging / playing with stuffed animals (85mm)
• Standing with hand on tree (either lens)
• Sitting on chair with Dog laying beneath (20mm)
• Looking up at books or standing in front (20mm)
• Dog or cat laying nearby baby sitting (20-60mm unless room available)
• Laying in crib top down (20-60mm)
• Close up of parents hands holding the baby / on babies chest (85mm)
• Parents holding baby posed together (20-60mm)
• Dog sat next to them, parent with baby, other parent with cat (20-60mm)
• Walking in a chain - Child, shorter parent, taller parent (20-60)

Possible Scenes

• Babies bedroom
• Kitchen
• Outside amongst trees
• Playing fetch with pets
• Favorite activity
• Actions they do to make baby laugh
• Nearby Hike location?
• Clambering on couch
• Standing in front of their first home

Possible attire

• Wear clothes of similar lightness in color for more color photos
• Wear lights and darks for black and white photos
• Don’t need to be super put together

Tips

https://digital-photography-school.com/10-tips-first-family-portrait-session/

• Get on childrens level if they are moving on their own
• More closed aperture for depth of people standing together
• Faster shutter - 1/250
• Limit to 5 versions of each scene

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhotography/comments/x9ktu8/first_family_photo_shoot_with_a_friends_any_tips/