1. If you are bringing a toy for the kids to play with make sure with the parent it’s a good idea. Let’s just say maybe bubbles weren’t initially ideal but we did end up getting good use out of them.
2. Don’t rush through the formalities at the beginning. Make sure everything is signed and put away. Because I rushed this the model release forms and they ended up blowing all over the street. My assistant (husband) saved them luckily.
3. While the 85mm lens is a beautiful portrait lens it’s very tough to use when you are running around outside because you can’t focus with it, you have to move back and forth. *I need a new lens
4. Not every kid enjoys having a camera pointed at them by a stranger (I have not figured out how to handle this yet).

I’m sifting through all the photos from the family photo session with Melissa’s family on Saturday and it’s both exciting and frustrating trying to cut down pictures. I think I have a natural tendency to look at pictures in more of an artistic way and not as a family portrait. Later on I will share pictures that are more abstract than portrait shots.