Family Portraits Remixed!!!

I recently had a shoot with one of my favorite professors from my undergraduate years and his family.

He contacted me and said the words that every creative likes to hear, we want the pics done your way, throw your creativity in the mix; and I did.

I have always been a fan of Gap Ads, and the current ones are my favorite! I love them: love the colors, simplicity, and warmth. They have became my inspiration for this type of family shoot!

I am a naturally commercial photographer, I grew up seeing all kinds of ads everywhere and that is how I try to make my photography. I mean why should'nt family portraits or any type of image look like they belong in a magazine. I am tired of the glamour shot type portraits that we have all grown up with where everyone in the picture looks uncomfortable wishing they were somewhere else.

So with my images, I want them to look effortless, I want my subjects to have a memorable shoot, so that they can come back year after year not because they have to but because they want to! Overall we took well over 1000 pictures around 800 of which were in studio and here are the results I hope you approve!

Strobist info:

For the shoot I had a great studio space, with a basic three light setup. In my corner were two White Lighting X1600s one as the main light camera left with a Large Octabox with the top diffuser removed and second to light the background with a 32 inch white diffuser umberalla; For the fill light, camera right, I used an AB1600 with a medium sized octabox with the top diffuser removed.