Family Photo Session 2012

This past weekend, we managed to catch an hour of one of the last nice days of the warm fall we've been having.  We convinced Spencer to come with us after supper out to the sledding hill near our house for a session of family photos.  The hill was covered in long grass and thistles gone to seed.  Not the fall foliage I had envisioned at first but I'm happy with it now that I look at the pictures.

My boys weren't being super co-operative (for some reason, family pictures aren't their favourite thing to do).  So, Spencer took a bunch of shots (and was very patient - thank you!!) and this one turned out the best:

Then we did individual shots:

And, of course, there were some silly shots too:

 Shae took this one of us on the hill after the session:

 And Jess took this picture of me while he was trying to find the best setting for the photo session:

And finally, here are some outtakes:

The low, warm sun made everything, even a patch of thistles, look beautiful.

Family Picture

As a very last minute request (Jess's favourite), I asked him if we could do a family picture since our last one was over a year old and H especially has changed a lot. But it was starting to get dark outside so he had to do some tricky lighting stuff to make the lighting look warm and natural (he ended up cutting up a plastic tomato carton, colouring it yellow with a marker, and taping it over his flash and it worked perfectly!)

We asked our 6-year old neighbour who was outside playing to come over and push the button on the camera and play peekaboo with H. C was being a bit of a turkey and refused to smile very much or even look at the camera (he was mad I was making him wear his handsome argyle sweater vest out on our front lawn where all his friends could see him). So, this was our best shot. I was tempted to photoshop his face so he was looking at the camera but we decided perfect wasn't what we were going for anyways.

I haven't decided which colouring I like best yet:

Original:

Faded:

Vintage:

Black and White:

Opinions?

And, here are some funny outtakes:

I love Jess's face in this one (doesn't he look scary?!?)