Saturday, September 15, 2012

Portraits, From Home

 Prompted by a request for pictures for Grandma Betty, I recently attempted to take a good, portrait-style picture of each of the kids.  Here are the results, some better than others. 
 These of Sam and Will I took several weeks back.  I think I might redo them.  The ones I took below of Ben and Cal today were better.  I think I like the dress clothes better than the casual clothes.


 These, of Millie, were cute and fun to do, but I might keep trying for an even better portrait-style picture.


 Took this one today and I LOVE it.  This was such a difficult-to-catch smile.
Elijah is, for obvious reasons, the hardest to photograph sometimes.  I took him to the portrait studio at Sears today and had his picture taken professionally.  I decided I would like to have at least one professional portrait done of the kids as babies/toddlers.  After that I think I'll try to take an annual "portrait" from home around the time that we go back to school in the fall. 

3 comments:

Lora said...

Such cute pictures of your kids Julie. And I love Amelia's blue dress! So pretty!

Anonymous said...

Julie-
The kids pictures are soooo good! I even love the ones of Sam and Will because it captures how they are everyday. You have such a good eye- and beautiful objects in your photos!
~Shannon

Jennie and Julie said...

Wow! They turned out so good! I am super impressed. I love the first one of Benny, because the color of his shirt just makes his skin glow. Will's is good mainly because I know how hard it is to get a good photo of him (he's like Cecily in that). I love all of Millie's but I really like the one of her hair up and smelling the rose...so sweet. And hooray for Cecily's smile...what a sweetness of a photo. I am going to please have you make 8x10's of them all to update my frames. I'll let you know which ones on the phone. Great job! Grammie