When they were little...

[nwhiker]

We don't have a lot of studio photos of our kids because the experience was invariably painful and the photos did not justify the cost, either financial or in stress.

But I do remember the photographers or their helpers trying to get the kid to pay attention by squeaking a toy to make the kid look at the camera and maybe even OMG, smile.

Guess what? It works for teens too!

Yesterday I had to take the headshot for Linnea's yearbook, her school photo was pretty awful. So there we were, nice green background, and the smiles were so fake it was annoying. She noticed some dead leaves in the branches behind her, fallen from a Big Leaf Maple above, and removed them from the bush so they wouldn't be in the field of view. She shook the leaf. I snapped a photo.

It was the best one we'd gotten so far. So I told her to hold the leaf and channel playing with it. We were laughing by then.

That worked for a bit, then I took the leaf and held it above my head, shook it, and got this photo:





I absolutely love it.

We went out to the deck and took some more, without the leaf, but with the cats whining behind the glass to get out. Got some other photos, none as good as that one imo, but here is the one she picked for the yearbook:





Here are the total hamming it up outtakes, which are good, but not yearbook material!

Comments

[siamese1]

Gorgeous girl ya got there. :)