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How to take a natural and warm family photo at home?

According to traditional habits, when a family goes out to play and travel, they will naturally take photos with their cameras. I want to record what I have never seen before, or mountains and rivers, or exotic scenery. But this is not my favorite way to take pictures. After a few years, I looked through the photo album and watched myself and my family go to many special attractions, but I didn't record the places I was familiar with ... Maybe the people in the photo had nothing to do with the scenery inside. The following is a little experience of taking a family photo indoors, hoping to help you take a real family photo! Find a suitable natural light source. Generally, the lighting conditions at home are not dim. You need to find some big windows, no matter what direction or place. If you are filming for someone else's house, you can ask to walk around and get to know the structure of the whole house. Indoor family photos can be taken anywhere in the whole house: bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, balcony, living room ... Usually, I will choose the master bedroom, because there are probably big windows, good lighting conditions and vast space. It is worth mentioning that even if you shoot with a flash, it does not mean that you can ignore natural light. Natural light is a good helper to create a warm atmosphere! Let the characters really blend into the atmosphere at home. People often pour their feelings into things at home. When they interact with their favorite objects, it is the best time to shoot! Speaking of favorite things, maybe children will pick up their favorite toys, and maybe adults will take out European afternoon tea sets. These are their favorite objects, and this scene should be recorded! Photographers can arrange appropriate lighting to enhance the atmosphere of the scene, and then shoot when the subject is in love. Such photos must be more meaningful than going out to the park. Emotional expression is natural. If the model is shooting outside, the photographer can communicate with him about the shooting effect you want, but the family photo is not suitable for this. Forcing them to do fixed movements will make the picture more unnatural. In other people's homes, photographers should be occasional guests, quietly recording the details of life without being disturbed; If the photographer is a family member, he should play wholeheartedly. Maybe the camera is a prop to play with. Don't take photos too seriously. Besides posing for a family photo, a good family photo should be born in a relaxed and happy way. The purpose of creating daily scenes is to make the characters in the picture participate more in the immediate things and behave more naturally. As mentioned above, we want them to express themselves naturally. What we are doing now is not to completely control and intervene, but to guide them. Generally, portrait photography should not be planned in advance, but it is very important to plan and prepare in advance. But in family photography, even if you know your subject very well, following the plan will only bring nightmares, especially when shooting children, and the plan is meaningless to them. The photo below was taken on my son's third birthday. His expression was highly nervous and full of disgust, just like I did at that time ... This was originally a tentative shooting, hoping to shoot a happy scene on his third birthday, hoping to be a classical portrait that could be put in a photo frame, but he just wanted to ignore me and continue painting. So we started arguing about photography, and the child continued to ignore me after yelling at me ... but in the end, I took this photo. I love you, son.