These are my best tips to help you to improve your portrait photography but remember that these aren’t rules, consider them more like guidelines. And if you have any tips to contribute with, then feel free to leave a comment with your suggestions.
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Give directions to the parents.
Tell the parents to make sure the kid has slept and ate, and that they don’t do anything that drains their energy before the shoot. I had a friend of mine that once was about to photograph a kid and previous to the photo shoot the parents had been walking around the mall with him for two hours. Naturally, the little guy was fed up and grumpy when the photo shoot started. Heck, I would to! Thus, the photos turned out pretty crappy. Make the photo shoot an event and something fun for the kid. Something he or she can be excited about.