A few posts ago I featured a preview of mini-sessions, and as I was finishing those up and getting them out this week, I was making note of a little trend I noticed…
My favorite photos are ones wherein the personality of the subject really gets reflected. When I already know my subject – and when they know me – that’s pretty easy. But if I’m just a stranger with a camera, I try to spend a little time at the beginning talking and (hopefully) letting everyone get a little more comfortable. But with a mini-session, we have 20 minutes to get in there and get it done! So there’s not a whole lot of time to play around. And on this particular day, I had a lot of children between the ages of 1 and 3 – in other words, prime, “Who are you and what is going on here?” staring phase.
I noticed it was in the last few minutes where those more shy little ones got playful, and you got to seem them sparkle a little bit. (I think I need to work on getting my time down from a 17 minute warm-up!) But I also noticed that I find something sweet in the shy pictures, too. I like them both, and I’m happy to have a little of each.
These are a few samples of… the one on the left – first 17 minutes, the one on the right – last 3 minutes. 🙂
