Categories: Personal

Urban Family Photo’s — That I didn’t Have to Take!

When the tables turn and you have to be in front of the camera…

99% of the time, Andy and I are behind the camera, not in front of it. This year, with all of the changes to the business, I thought it would be a good idea to hire someone to take family photos of us. Photos we could use on the website.

Up until this point, the only people who have taken photos of my family have been me or Andy (using the tripod and a remote), or my friends and family, nothing professional, though.

Taking your own family photos is HARD!

I watch others when I take their photos and I think, how nice it would be for someone to act a fool behind the camera to make us smile while someone else is making sure we still look good in the pictures.

For me, doing it myself I can’t see what the photos look like when I hit the trigger button. I know what I should look like, and what Andy and Tristan (hopefully) look like. But I get back to the camera and someone isn’t looking at the camera or someone isn’t cooperating. Tristan smiles, but doesn’t look at the camera. He looks off into the distance for some reason? Andy hates being in front of the camera and bucks me. He squints, doesn’t smile and gets distracted. There is a whole lot of ADH-OOH Shiny going on in this family.

Right before we launched the new brand and website, I hired Reed Gallagher. We meet up with Reed and his mother at the old grain silo in Houston, near Navigation rd. I hadn’t ever been to this location but google maps had a lot of photos of the location and I could see a lot of potential.

It was a bit warm (nothing like it is now) and Tristan probably only has about 30-40 minutes worth of cooperation in him. he did very well and we got about what we expected out of him. I was pleased that Reed’s assistant was able to get Tristan to look at the camera and smile. It always helps to tell the photographer before hand what your issues are in photos. Tristan is notorious for smiling at the camera but looking away.

After the shoot, we treated ourselves to a well deserved cold beer from 8th Wonder while Tristan ran around like a crazy person with the other kids at the brewery.

Any way, I’ll stop rambling and just show you the photos from the session.