Photoshoot! Our Family, June 2012

I think every family has a family photographer.

In our family, it is DD. He is the one responsible for the gorgeous shots of the kids. The unfortunate result of that, however, is that he doesn't appear in many photographs with the children. He has tried to hand the camera over to me occasionally, but the SLR and me, we don't really get along. I have that special gift of taking over a camera, already pre-metered and focal point adjusted, and the shot will still come out blurry. It's almost an (un)super power of mine.

I didn't want to kids to only have bad photos of their Dad - and not many at that - when they looked back on their childhood. So as my Father's Day gift to my husband, I got KC from Tinydot Photography to take some family photos for us. (Thanks Pam for the recommendation!)

When I started looking around for a photographer, I kept flip-flopping between taking studio shots or having an outdoor shoot. Tinydot doesn't have a studio, but KC suggested doing some shots indoors at the Tinydot office and taking some shots outdoors in the Tiong Bahru neighbourhood. That sounded perfect to me! And that's what we did.

We trooped down bright and early at 8am one Saturday morning in June and spent a couple of hours taking pictures.

KC shot and edited the shots and I got a disc of images - all 330 of them - a couple of days later.

We are sooo pleased with the photos! Even my fussy-about-photos husband loved them.

There are lots of lovely ones which I plan to collage, and also print on canvas for the house. I haven't gotten round to it yet, but I thought I'd share some of my favourites here.

I love this collage of 4 photos below because of the backstory. Naomi was acting up on the ground just before this, and these shots capture Noey going over on his own accord to cheer her up. It worked. The sibling bond? It makes me melt.

I thought having some shots indoors turned out to be a good idea because we were able to continue shooting in air-conditioned comfort when the kids were fast tiring, and everyone didn't look quite so, erm, sweaty.















The husband and I also took the opportunity to do some couple shots, which you can see here, on an earlier post I wrote on our anniversary.

It really wasn't that easy, taking photos with a not-so-cooperative 1-year old. On hindsight, we realised it might have helped to have brought an assistant along to help trigger some smiles from Naomi. But notwithstanding this, I think KC did a great job. He related well to the kids and the photos were just what we were looking for: beautiful shots of our family, as we are, but in good light. Hee.

And yes, with Papa present too.