Just as soon as a session is booked, I always get asked “what should we wear?” And with an entire weekend of mini-sessions coming up, I thought now would be the perfect time to give a few tips. . .
I respond to the question with a few basic rules:
*Pick things that express your personality and style
*Go with “coordinating” rather than exactly “matching”
*Avoid logos. . . the eye tends to go straight for those things, rather than the subject, when looking at the pictures.
*Choose varying colors and textures to create visual interest.
*Think about your home decor. If you’re going to have portraits on your walls, where you’ll see them daily, you want to be wearing colors that you like. And colors that coordinate with your home decor. It may sound silly to dress to match your furniture, but we’re creating art for your walls and you want it to be in harmony with the rest of your home.
*Pick all of the outfits for the family as if you were dressing one person. Lay all of the outfits together on the bed and see how they work together. You wouldn’t dress yourself in head-to-toe denim or black or white. You’d have different–but complementary–colors, different textures, some fun accessories.
*Final tip is to start with the person that is hardest to dress or the one who has the outfit you just must have in your photos. Then build everyone else’s outfit around that.
If in doubt, give me a call before your session and I can give you more advice. Or you can even bring a suitcase full of clothes and we’ll go through it before your session!
Before wrapping this up, I thought I’d share a little more inspiration from a few of my fabulously dressed clients:
I LOVE this post. Great outfits too. I never thought about coordinating our outfits to my house colors! Thanks for blogging.