Dressing for a Family Photoshoot — Details

Family photoshoot is a memory.

When we are going to a photoshoot with the children, everybody wears nice clothes and prepares for it as if it were a holiday (this is really a holiday). As a family photographer in Barcelona with over 10 years of experience, I can recommend a few things about dressing for a family photoshoot. You can dress the family in completely different colors for a regular holiday — blue, red, yellow, and orange. But for a photoshoot, it is important to have a common style. This is because our eyes read a combination of 1 to 3 colors much better than a variety of colors at the same time.

What to wear for the family photoshoot in Barcelona?

✔ Combining color

Pick one combining color that would join the whole family together — e.g., red sneakers, scarf, etc. — it could be just one piece of clothing that has the same or similar color.

✔ One to three colors in clothes

Try to have no more than three colors in your photoshoot clothes. One style if you keep to an evening dress code; no reason to mix it with casual style like jeans. But if you’re wearing sweaters or t-shirts, jeans would fit best of all.

What clothes to avoid on a family photoshoot?

✖ Bright prints, excess colorfulness.

These are the things that do not fit well for this kind of photoshoot: clothes with an abundance of prints, big flowers on dresses, a lot of text, and prints on t-shirts. Small-sized flowers on a dress or partially decorated dresses are quite okay.

✖ Plaid or check clothes and thin striped clothes

Avoid clothes with plaid patterns or thin striped clothes — this will flicker in the eyes when looking at the photo.

✖ Combining different styles

Avoid combining different styles of clothes, for example, parents wearing smart casual while children wear sports clothes.

You can see good examples of photoshoot clothes in the pictures below: