Kids just want to have fun – so let them!

Working with three five year old boys full of energy and spunk is no easy task. These three amigos are best friends and they have not seen each other for a while as one now lives in Texas.

Although the point of this session was to capture a portrait for each of the families to have of the boys, every experienced photographer knows that “posing” is out. With the attention span of a puppy, kids force you to move more quickly, be down right silly, and not be too controlling.

The best advice I can offer is to add some fun and silly poses in between the more posed ones attempted. Not only does this break up the paying attention times, sometimes these fun shots turn out to showcase their personalities the best and become the selected image.

I am pretty sure the fangs are not going to be the wall portrait but it sure encouraged the boys to cooperate for the next shot.