Christmas Photo Shoot

Kara posted her favorite two Christmas shots, but I wanted to share a few others taken during our photo shoot. As usual we had more than one session, but the sessions were short and all on the same day! It really was quite amazing that we got some good photos of the group without an excessive amount of time and effort. 

Bentley complained loudly about having to do the photos, but he was a champion smiler during the sessions. Lincoln ruined a whole sequence of photos by pouting which you kind of have to expect of a three year old. Viva was a good sport once we got her into the dress that best matched the boys' outfits. Jake was easy to work with. Evan was a wiggly two year old!

Our first session I posed the boys in back and Viva in front. I put her on the right in front of Bentley. That could have worked with both rows of children lining up tallest to smallest, but the boys were too far back and so their heads were noticeably smaller than Viva's head. Kara didn't like that. She didn't want her girl child to appear larger than the older boy children. 

Here's a photo where Bentley is looking good, but he's the only one doing so. Lincoln is looking sad and Evan and Viva are too serious.

In our next series of photos, we put Viva in the middle of the two little boys and reminded the older boys to lean forward a little so their heads don't appear so much smaller than Viva's head. I like the photo below, but Bentley was squinting so this photo was not chosen as The Photo.

I loved Evan's dimple in the next photo, but Kara thought Bentley looked a little crazy. (However, he was smiling and not squinting!) I think Lincoln was looking a little crazy, too!

In the photo above (as in the photo Kara chose to post on Christmas Day) you can see that as the photo session went on, Evan pushed Viva out of the center of the photo and made himself the focal point. That's not easy to do when you're the smallest child in the photo session, but he managed it. 

And lastly, here are four more fine photos from our photo shoot.

  

I've saved five funny photos for another post!