Monday – Christmas Portrait, Take 5
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I tried to wrangle my 5 year old into sitting still for a portrait to go out in my Christmas cards to last week. It's never an easy task. First, I had to get him a haircut, because his bangs were in his eyes and I didn't want him to look too shaggy for the only picture that certain family members will see of him all year. Then came the whole process of getting him to sit still and smile at the same time. It's easy to get him to smile when he is swinging him arms or running around, but that makes for a blurry portrait. With a little work I can get him to sit still, but he doesn't like to smile while he is doing so.
Every year, without fail, the picture I think will work from how it looks when I review it on my digital camera doesn't look so hot once I load it onto my computer. The one I end up using is always a surprise, and this year was no exception.
Getting him to smile while he is looking at a toy is easy:
Getting him to smile while he is looking at me is not:
Unless, of course, I'm willing to settle for an evil grin instead of a 100 watt smile:
He does somber really well, at least in photos. He doesn't much like having his picture made, and that puts him in a somber mood:
I did manage to get this one, which looks to me a bit too typical – i.e., slightly cheesy:
There was one other batch of photos in the camera taken a week or so before when we were putting up the Christmas tree. Sweet Pea has his own little tree that he picked out last year at Target – a tacky teal tinsel little thing that he adores and insists be set up on the hearth next to the big Christmas tree. When we set it up this year, he asked me to take his picture with it.
"I want a picture of me cuddling my Christmas tree," he said, leaning in against it and snuggling with the prickly little thing as best he could. His hair is too long and hangs in his eyes, and he is wearing the little Mona Lisa smile that he wears when he is content. I snapped the picture to make him happy. It's not what I wanted to use for my official Sweet Pea portrait this year: his hair is too long and need combing, he is not wearing the charming red sweater I bought just for taking his picture in, and he shares the frame with a tacky teal tinsel Christmas tree. But I saw the picture and kind of fell in love with it:
How could I resist? It's just so Sweet Pea.
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Reminder: if you want a Christmas card from me, leave me your address here. I'm working on them this week (better late than never).
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I tried to wrangle my 5 year old into sitting still for a portrait to go out in my Christmas cards to last week. It's never an easy task. First, I had to get him a haircut, because his bangs were in his eyes and I didn't want him to look too shaggy for the only picture that certain family members will see of him all year. Then came the whole process of getting him to sit still and smile at the same time. It's easy to get him to smile when he is swinging him arms or running around, but that makes for a blurry portrait. With a little work I can get him to sit still, but he doesn't like to smile while he is doing so.
Every year, without fail, the picture I think will work from how it looks when I review it on my digital camera doesn't look so hot once I load it onto my computer. The one I end up using is always a surprise, and this year was no exception.
Getting him to smile while he is looking at me is not:
Unless, of course, I'm willing to settle for an evil grin instead of a 100 watt smile:
He does somber really well, at least in photos. He doesn't much like having his picture made, and that puts him in a somber mood:
I did manage to get this one, which looks to me a bit too typical – i.e., slightly cheesy:
There was one other batch of photos in the camera taken a week or so before when we were putting up the Christmas tree. Sweet Pea has his own little tree that he picked out last year at Target – a tacky teal tinsel little thing that he adores and insists be set up on the hearth next to the big Christmas tree. When we set it up this year, he asked me to take his picture with it.
"I want a picture of me cuddling my Christmas tree," he said, leaning in against it and snuggling with the prickly little thing as best he could. His hair is too long and hangs in his eyes, and he is wearing the little Mona Lisa smile that he wears when he is content. I snapped the picture to make him happy. It's not what I wanted to use for my official Sweet Pea portrait this year: his hair is too long and need combing, he is not wearing the charming red sweater I bought just for taking his picture in, and he shares the frame with a tacky teal tinsel Christmas tree. But I saw the picture and kind of fell in love with it:
How could I resist? It's just so Sweet Pea.
Reminder: if you want a Christmas card from me, leave me your address here. I'm working on them this week (better late than never).
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Date: 2009-12-14 09:10 pm (UTC)so pretty!
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Date: 2009-12-14 10:19 pm (UTC)The tree brings out the blue in his eyes
Some of the best photos don't have the perfect "details" but the expression is priceless..
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Date: 2009-12-14 11:10 pm (UTC)He looks SO much like his Daddy in #2! And I LOVE the "evil grin." Wonder where he gets THAT from? ;D
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