Picture help!

[Michele]

I'm not really sure where to put this, so feel free to move if this isn't the right spot.

I just made the spur of the moment decision to take the kids to Picture People tomorrow - the pictures will be Mother's Day and Father's Day presents for the grandparents.

Anna is going to wear this:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/ruggedbear-online_1945_38350230

What should Jackson wear? I'm not good at this matching 2 kids thing yet. I was thinking he could wear these shorts with a white oxford shirt...but I'm not really sure if the 2 patterns would look weird together.

http://s7ondemand1.scene7.com/is/image/Gymboree/140016745?$240x305$

My other ideas were:

1. The oxford shirt with either navy or khaki shorts
2. Khaki shorts or pants with a blue polo shirt (the blue polo shirt is basically same color as the lighter blue in Anna's dress).

What do you think?

[Kate]

The plaid shorts are a little to busy. When doing photos you want to try and stick with solid colors. I would do the oxford shirt with the navy shorts.... That would compliment the dress nicely...

[Alyssa]

Love the shorts but I think it competes too much w/ Anna's dress.

If you do the oxford shirt, I'd do navy shorts. But I think the blue polo would be fine with khakis.

Another idea. We did Aidan's 2 year pictures with a white polo and lighter-colored jeans rolled up just a bit and no shoes. It looked very cute. That could be a look with Anna's dress if you keep her shoe-less too.

[bunybomb]

Navy blue polo and khaki shorts. White isn't supposed to be a good color to wear for pictures, it can make faces look washed out.

[Karri]

Voice of dissent.....white shirt and khaki shorts :heee:
I have a photo of N&E at 18 months on a white background (i can post it if you want). She's wearing a white dress w/ blue flowers and he's got on khaki shorts w/ a white short sleeve oxford. It's one of my fave pics of them :)

[Michele]

Thanks guys...

I ended up going with the white oxford and khaki shorts....the polo shirt wasn't the right blue (I didn't have a navy one, it is more of a sky blue, but didn't match the blue in Anna's dress), and the Navy shorts were dirty...

I think they came out ok...the sucky thing was we were there at 12:50 for our 1:00 appointment, and they didn't take us until 1:40. My kids, who were happy and ready to go at 1:00, were crabby and uncooperative by 1:40...Jackson also adopted this weird grimacing smile for the photo session. :dunno:

Here is what we got:

http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/rlv/isapi/designall.dll?action=getimage&max_dim=500&bg_pattern=checker&rotation_angle=0&id=ab1400cb-ecbd-4f06-9c86-58d37259bbc1
http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/rlv/isapi/designall.dll?action=getimage&max_dim=500&bg_pattern=checker&rotation_angle=0&id=dda8adc0-58e3-4513-8493-0fab9ecbe377
http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/rlv/isapi/designall.dll?action=getimage&max_dim=500&bg_pattern=checker&rotation_angle=0&id=9dd4ff5f-7ae9-4dc3-95c4-3142dda603d5

Most of the pictures looked like this:

http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/rlv/isapi/designall.dll?action=getimage&max_dim=500&bg_pattern=checker&rotation_angle=0&id=e2eba4f7-630f-4304-971d-eeeba74aa95b

This is the face that Jackson insisted on making in about 90% of the pictures. :lol: No idea where that came from!

http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/rlv/isapi/designall.dll?action=getimage&max_dim=500&bg_pattern=checker&rotation_angle=0&id=40f5586e-4263-4f37-8b37-af18b0d725c9

So, I'm not 100% pleased, but I needed them for Mother's Day, so what can you do?

Oh and I just realized that Anna's dress is different then the picture I posted....whoops!

[Karri]

They're darling, michele :heart:

[Trish]

Aww, I think they look great, Michelle!

[Jayne]

I think they are adorable!

[Stacey]

The ones that did turn out are really cute though! I'd call that a success. :nod:

[Clare]

They're gorgeous! :heart: Jackson's smile is so funny :lol:

[MrsPeacefrog]

I'd call it a success too, you got them both looking at the camera at the same time :aok:

:giggle:

[Bev]

They're cute! :)

[Nadine]

Very cute!
I am sorry you had to wait so long!

[Michele]

Thanks guys!

Who knew it was so hard to take a picture of 2 kids??!! I need to lighten up...I was so mad at Jackson for making that stupid face...so dumb of me!

[Trish]

Pictures w/kids are so stressful for the parents, so don't beat yourself up about it. I always stress over them, too and then they end of looking great and no one knows (but me :lol: ) how much hell that day was :lol:

[Shanna]

I think they're adorable!

[Alyssa]

They're great! Just wait until you have #3. Oy...even greater picture fun! :heee: