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Sarah Lim
In Casual Portraits, Family + Children Portraits, Maternity, Musings, Portraits, Tips + Ideas

How to Style Your Family for a Photo Shoot

Family gatherings are a perfect opportunity for a photoshoot, whether its a birthday party or festive gathering. However, getting a great family photo sometimes requires a little more than just smiling at the camera. There’s some prep work involved and it’s called “styling”. You don’t have to be a professional fashion consultant to do this. In fact, it’s quite easy! Here are four ways to start having better looking photos with just a little bit of styling done right.


1. Consider your location and backdrop

If your photoshoot coincides with an event such as a birthday party or a dinner, think about how the location will look like: What colour will the wall or backdrop be where your group will be standing? Here’s a good rule of thumb you can follow: 

  • Plain background – You can wear either plain or bright colours, and outfits with more patterns. However not everyone should be wearing prints or else the patterns might clash, making overall photo look too messy. 
  • Busy background – It’s best to wear outfits with plain colours (no patterns) that complement the background. Eg. A green leafy background can go with full white outfits or white and khaki colours.

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Grace Tan
In Family + Children Portraits, Portraits, Studio

Large Family Portraits

Chinese New Year is coming up and that is the best time to get together for a large family portrait. We’ve done so many of these large groups in the past and absolutely love seeing multiple generations coming together for a common purpose. Recently, we also photographed a family of 4 generations where the great-grandparents were 97 and 100 years of age respectively! Now that’s a reason for celebration!

We especially love taking photos at the homes of our clients. This is really meaningful because there’s a lot of memories attached to these homes. Even though some of our clients complain about the houses being messy, that is fine! We’ll always find a corner to photograph. The mess can sometimes trigger a memory too. However, if your family home is in a town far away from KL, you can also do a portrait session in our studio. We have accommodated up to 26 adults in our space in the past!

Contact us for a portrait session for this Chinese New Year. You’ll never regret the effort you went through to make this session happen.

Grace Tan
In Family + Children Portraits, Portraits

Family Portraits: Dominic & Lyn

Lyn wanted images that are natural, engaging and candid for her family photos. She mentioned to us that her daughter would look unnatural when posing for the camera, so she was hoping that we could catch her playful nature at the park. Well, good news is that children do look their best when they are having fun! We try to make each family session as fun as possible. We encourage you to think of games and activities to do during a photo session so that you come prepared.

Here’s some of our favourites during this session. And I think Lyn’s daughter looks natural even in the posed shots, don’t you think?

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Grace Tan
In Casual Portraits, Family + Children Portraits, Maternity, News, Parties & Events, Portraits, Promotions, Studio

December 2019 Promo

The Season of Giving is here and we have a gift for you! Book any Lifestyle Photography Package this December and redeem a 20% discount on your shoot in 2020. This could be a family, maternity, or newborn photo session.

This discount ALSO applies for prints, albums, and canvases that are ordered in December 2019. Now is your chance to pull out all those lovely old photos and make an album to gift to your family this Christmas!

Terms & Conditions:

  1. Bookings must be done in December 2019. Discount applies for Lifestyle packages, albums, canvases and prints only.
  2. Photography sessions must be completed within 2020 only, dates subject to availability.
  3. Additional upgrades or surcharges confirmed after this promo period will not be entitled to further 20% discounts.
  4. Lifestyle packages booked are fully transferable to another name.

Grace Tan
In Chinese Weddings, Wedding Films & Videos, Weddings

Wedding Video Highlight: Shri & Hui Ru

Hui Ru loves cats, nasi lemak, chocolate, coffee & sleeping. She aims to maintain a minimalist lifestyle with little distractions & things in her life, dreaming of reaching financial freedom in a few years. Shri is passionate in teaching young people on how to reach their best and happiest version of themselves. On weekends, they enjoy simple things in life like having brunch together and playing with Shri’s nephew.

Shri and Hui Ru celebrated their marriage at Ti Chen, The Saujana Hotel. It was lovely to see elements of their cultures coming together in unity and even more so, to see the joy that friends, family, and the couple had on their faces throughout the day. Their view of life resonates with us too!

“We see each other as soulmates. Before we met each other we were caught up with work & serving our families & the community. But the first time we paused and took time to get to know each other , we realized what true happiness is.” 

Here’s the wedding video highlight we did for them. Thank you for having us Shri and Hui Ru! It was a special day indeed.

Credits:

Videographers: Choo Cherk, Delvin & Abel
Location: Ti Chen at Saujana Hotel
Groom’s Attire: Ehkay Corner Tailors (Singapore)
Wedding Gown: Annasul Y (from Designer Bridal Room)
Shoes: Badgley Mischka
Makeup & Hair: Armadale
Decorations: Teamo
Flowers: Flora Hera
Stationery: Thistle Cards
Photography: Peter Herman photography
Wedding Planner: Cheryl from My Wedding Planner

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