Saturday, December 5, 2009

Photo Shoot

I now have a serious appreciation for child photographers! Brad and I spent hours - MANY HOURS - today trying to get a picture of sweet Lillian for our Christmas cards. Maybe this was the fundamental flaw in the plan, but I seriously went in thinking... got cute kid, got Holiday props, we should knock this out with a few shots. Does 164 attempts sound like I had any idea what I was getting into? I acknowledge that I am a bit of a perfectionist, but truly there were only about 5 pictures out of all we took that were decent. Brad and I both can sum up the experience in one word - Exhausting!
Two humorous thoughts to close with... 1. Brad said today that next year, he doesn't care if we have to go to the Wal Mart photo studio, we're not doing it ourselves and 2. Initially Brad mentioned getting Emily and Lillian together in the Christmas card picture. Those of you who've spent any time around Emily (aka - the Badger) know why this is funny!
Here's a few of our favorites from today.



No question, she'll know what to do with her stocking on Christmas morning!
Lillian was very intrigued by this "prop"!



4 comments:

The Hamiltons said...

Oh, boy, do I understand!!! I decided not to go to Portrait Innovations and thought, "This should be easy enough." ...uh, not at all! Micah kept looking in every direction BUT at the camera...when he did look at the camera, either he was reaching for it and looked away by the time I took the picture...or he wanted to bounce up and down, or shake side to side, or pick up something random...yeah, you must have A LOT of patience! LOL! Hope you're doing well! : )

John and Brooke said...

Girl I am right there with you. I attempted 3 different times and ended up with 123 pictures that were funny but not Christmas Card worthy. Finally I decided to try one with the whole famiy since that was the only way Will was going to sit still. We ended up putting him and Bentley in a red wagon. We were desperate. And the 1 good one that we got out of that attempt that we are using he is not looking directly at the camera!

Brandi said...

It doesn't get any easier. Just wait til she is toddling around. I don't think you could have a bad picture of her though. She is so stinkin cute!!!

Anonymous said...

she is too cute - the card turned out precious as well! loved gettig to see all the out takes!

memi