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What’s a good film camera for pictures of family & friends/ going out during day & night. Looking into getting the kodak M38 : filmcameras
Main Post: What’s a good film camera for pictures of family & friends/ going out during day & night. Looking into getting the kodak M38 : filmcameras
Is it weird to use pictures with parents/family?
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I'm not the type of person that has a lot of pictures taken of myself so I don't have much to put on my profile. But this past weekend was my dads birthday, and there are a few pictures that actually came out pretty well but they include my parents and grandparents. Would that be weird to use those?
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Only if they're ugly.
Pictures of your family
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Would it be weird adding a picture of your family to your online dating profile? For this example, it would be a picture of my brother getting married so it's myself my brother, his wife, my mom and step dad.
here is this one I'm talking about or should you keep pictures of just yourself? ...Come to think about it, should I even be posting any of this here :|
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It wouldn't necessarily be weird per se, but this photo in particular makes it look like you totally photobombed this nice wedding.
Family photo tips
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I will be taking some family photos for a young family (parents + 6 month old) this weekend. They cannot afford to pay a photographer and I told them I will try but have never taken family photos before. I have a canon rebel T3 I will be using. I would appreciate any tips/tricks. This family doesn’t have any photos with the baby yet so I’d like to get a few good ones.
Top Comment: Don't go too wide on the angle. I've seen pictures that are 90% background and 10% subject and you can barely see the people in the picture. If you're taking pictures of just the baby get on their level; don't point the camera down on them. But have fun! You have a digital camera so you can take as many pictures as you want to and good for you for helping them out (and giving yourself some free experience as well).
Are family photos a popular thing in America?
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I mean when you book a professional photographer and dress up and all that stuff.
You do it? How often? How many relatives are you gathering?
Are your photos more serious or informal?
This is important for you? Do you have any traditions associated with family photos?
In Europe, some people do this, but I don't think it's particularly common. I think for many this will seem old-fashioned.
Top Comment: We do professional ones once every couple of years. Some people more often. Others, never. Most of our family photos, of which we have dozens hanging over an entire wall at our home, are more candid or informal and of family vacations, fishing trips, golf outings, etc.
Taking family pictures everywhere is dumb
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Don’t get me wrong, I like good pictures, but hell - every time we go somewhere my sister in law makes every body stop as soon as we get a good flow going and have to line up and take pictures in front of the zoo sign, or this year’s thanksgiving, last year’s thanksgiving, everyone’s birthday parties and dinners. Things like Halloween are cool because you get a picture of everyone together with all the costumes. Everything else though is so redundant. Sure, there are once in a lifetime occasions that pictures should be taken, but all the time? No thank you. It’s annoying. Going back through hard copies of pictures we have, 90% of them are just groups of people staring directly into a camera with that way too big fake smile. It’s just so artificial. The best kinds of pictures are action shots... a child fielding a ground ball, someone having fun doing something and not realizing they’re having their photograph taken. Good god. Stop the ‘hey everybody let’s line up for a picture’ crap and take meaningful photos that will actually be appreciated and not skipped over when being looked at later.
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My older brother was murdered and we have barely a handful of pictures of him, because he was an “avoid the camera type”. Same issue with some cousins, and older relatives. They only ever took “meaningful” pictures, and as a result there are entire years of gaps where we missed out on that. Sometimes I look back at my own pictures and realize, if I died today, nobody would know what I looked like from 16 to 21. Nothing. Nada. Because I hated pictures.
We don’t have any full sets of sibling pictures at all. Not with all of us.
I take tons of pictures now - of everybody. And yes, at all the holidays. All the outings. I get action shots too, but those “family portrait” styles photos always have a place in my heart.
I’ve never seen a funeral where the people grieving go “that’s too many pictures”.
Where are we on family portraits nowadays?
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We just had our first family portrait done after our first child was born. The plan was to get a decent sized (16x20) print for above the mantle in our living room, but have realized that large-ish portraits in common spaces may have gone out of style and is now considered gauche/tacky. What is the current consensus on this? Any input would be much appreciated.
EDIT: thanks for the words of encouragement everyone. I guess my main concern was being pretentious by having a big honkin photo of myself in the living room. Now that it's hung I realize I don't care -- It's totally worth it to see my beautiful son's smiling face whenever I walk in the living room.
Top Comment: I think it comes down to personal preference, just do whatever would make you happy! Styles change over time, so don't worry too much about what the current trend is. If seeing a family portrait over your mantle makes you happy then just do it! :)
How often does your family take family photos?
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How often does your family take family photos? My house birdied down when I was little, my mom died before I was 21 and my father passed away before I turned 39. I have one family photo of my nuclear family growing up. I will admit, I am a little “extra” with the family photo shoots. People judge me because we taken a few times a year and when I ask them how often they do family photos there are some people that don’t do them at all.
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