There is a lot of planning that goes into a photoshoot, both on the photographer’s end and also the clients end, and this is true of people taking pictures on a more relaxed basis.
Everyone wants to take “good” pictures, and everyone wants to look “good” in pictures - that’s just the way it is. But the best pictures - the ones we remember forever - are usually taken when the unexpected happens!
Sometimes things go wrong — kids cry or are in bad moods, dogs don’t stay still, wardrobes malfunction - so many things can happen that deviate from the original plan. Seize those moments and capture them.
As a professional photographer one of the things I love most is being let into people’s personal and real lives… the house is messy, the kid is cranky, the dog doesn’t listen. I can relate - that is 100 percent my life too. When you take pictures anyway, it usually turns out that those are the pictures that people treasure, because they capture a REAL moment in time, and although it doesn’t seem it at the time, it can bring people right back to that point in their lives in a way a perfect picture (with perfect hair, perfect makeup, and a poised expression) never will.
When you tell a dog to sit and instead, true to his curious personality, it comes up to you and tries to lick your camera lens, take a picture! When the one year old tries to eat the props at her one year old portrait session, take a picture! When the toddler can’t get away from you fast enough and tries a running leap over the carefully selected chair you thought she would love, take the picture. And when you think you have set up a romantic vignette to capture a couple’s love before their baby is born and their first child quickly slides in to photobomb the session, take a picture. These wind up being the most cherished pictures that people have, because they are real!
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