74. How To Be Awesome At Making Photo Shoots Fun For Kids

How To Be Awesome At Everything

Lindsay Dickhout

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Kids and family photo shoots can be tricky! In this podcast, Lindsay shares a ton of ideas of how to make photo shots creative and FUN so you get the best pictures and everyone has a great time!

It’s so cool to get great pictures of your kids with natural smiles and pictures that capture their energy and their expressions at this age.

But sometimes it’s easier said than done. We focus so much on what everyone is going to wear and where everyone is going to stand that by the time your kids or your whole family get in position, it’s like ok now SMILEEE kids!! And sometimes this works, you might get a few smiles out of them but we've learned that the best way to get the best photos of your kids is by making photo shoots fun!

So that’s what we’re talking about today!

Take pictures yourself or hire a photographer to do it or have a friend shoot it. If you’re in Orange County and looking for a professional photographer, my guy Greg is incredible, especially at kids shoots. He’s so great with the kids and has patience for daysss and is always looking for the most creative way to shoot it.

Here’s his info:

Greg Loza

[email protected]

Lindsay talks about how she does a photo shoot for each kids birthday to capture that age and that moment.

Plan ahead and think about what they like doing. What would they walk into and be like Yessss!! I'm so excited for this!

Some ideas: balloons, animals, decorating cookies/cupcakes, pinata, park or beach and a smash cake (always a smash cake!!)

Make sure you do the messiest scene last! Start with a fun one to get the momentum going. If you have any that are more traditional, stick that in the middle so we get everyone having fun first, then sneak that in after.

You have to head over to HowToBeAwesomeAtEverything.com for so many inspiration images too!

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0:00.0	It's so cool to get great pictures of your kids with natural smiles and pictures that capture
0:05.2	their energy and their expressions at this age. But sometimes that's easier said than done.
0:10.8	We focus so much on what everyone is going to wear and where everyone is going to stand that by
0:14.7	the time your kids or your whole family get into position, it's like, okay, now smile,
0:19.2	kids. And sometimes this works. You might get a few
0:22.4	smiles out of them, but I've learned that the best way to get the best photos of your kids is by making
0:27.3	photo shoots fun. Planning ahead of time so you have interaction to your photos and a plan to get them to
0:33.4	look at the camera and smile and some sort of treat that I do at the end in case a little
0:37.8	bribery is needed. Our kids grow up so fast and really the only way I've figured out how to not
0:43.3	make it seem so fast is by capturing these incredible still images at different ages. It's like
0:48.8	freezing the moment in time in the form of pictures. So I'm going through all the different ways
0:53.2	I've learned to get creative with photo shoots by making it fun.
0:56.6	Let's go.
0:57.8	You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast, where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more awesome.
1:06.1	Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife, and someone who wants to do
1:12.5	things over the top at all times. This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned
1:18.3	that she was documenting to give to her kids one day. And now it's a podcast. Join us on this journey
1:23.5	where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do. Here's Lindsay.
1:30.3	How to be awesome at making photo shoots fun for kids. I love this fun Friday podcast topic
1:38.1	because so many of us want to get these great images of our kids, but it's often easier said than done, whether it's a
1:47.8	random photo shoot or a photo shoot for their birthday or something you set up on vacation or something
1:54.0	you set up for your holiday cards. We all do photos of our kids, sometimes more candid and sometimes
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