Pictures

malcivar

We were just given the annual picture that my SIL takes of her kids.  Made me start thinking about how I had planned on taking a picture of Chris and his baby brother so maybe we could do a Christmas card and also how maybe it'd be nice to have a family picture taken - a real one, not just an impromptu one.  

I have no idea how to even begin getting Chris to stay still long enough to take one.

Do any of you have any tips on how I can get my super-fidgety, highly distracted, son to sit still for a picture? 

Thanks. 

Jcrab

Maybe ask his EI therapist / support groups for photographer recommendations. A good photographer can certainly make magic happen. Good luck!

d.f

Photography is my hobby. I REALLY have to work for decent pictures of DS. Usually I sneak attack and get his attention and then click before he looks away. If I'm doing more formal pictures I enlist DH to play and interact with him from right behind me (which is why he's looking above my head in my siggy). Sometimes I'll put something on my head and let it fall off because he thinks that's hilarious. It didn't work as well a year ago though because he would try to retrieve it.

AgrippaRidesAgain

We've never been able to get a good picture out of DS with a professional photographer, even when said photographer is a friend of the family that he knows well.  If he even looks at the camera, the pictures always end up unsmiling with wary eyes, LOL.  I get slightly better results myself, but he's usually got a giant fake smile that's almost as bad.

I second the suggestion of just getting action shots.

malcivar

Thanks for the suggestions, guys.  I think maybe an action shot with both kids might be the way to go.  I also really like the idea of single shots but putting them all into a multi-picture frame.  That might be really good for getting all of us doing something that's "us", because Chris being Chris always makes for the best shots.  

MirandaHobbes

LOL- I've actually resorted to yelling at DS: "Hey, DS, look, my camera is blinking!!" He'll look and I'll snap quick. Also I have found that DS' school pictures are always excellent. He will sit still and even smile nicely when instructed so long as it is a person in authority asking him and I'm not around. I'm going to test the theory this fall and take him to Target and actually leave for the photo shoot.