Vant Hoff Portraits

Over the past summer I had the privilege of doing the Vant Hoff Family Annual Photoshoot again. We always have a lot of fun. And the pictures always turns our fantastic! 

The secret is that the family is always color coordinated which make them look like a unit. When you dress your family for family portraits, always avoid shirts with slogans or images on them. These images distract from a persons' face. If you can not find exact matching outfits for the family try to find neutral colors for everyone, they can wear any shade of black, brown, gray, and white. All these colors should blend together nicely.

Another thing to remember is that kids need to be comfortable in front of the camera in order to give spontaneous sincere smiles. In previous years we have always taken the pictures at the Vant Hoffs acreage (a location where they are comfortable at). But they do not want to same background year after year, so this time I suggested this background. Which is a school building covered in little rocks. And conveniently there is a playground adjacent to it! So while we were doing individual portraits, the other kids were sliding down the slides.

So this collage is an extract of the hundreds of fantastic pictures that was taken at this family portrait shoot.