My favorite school photography ever (no green background!)

As I look back over my work this last fall, one of my favorite moments was taking these pictures with my daughter's school class. Her teacher had the great idea of doing shadow portraits. I blew two of these up to 10x20" size, matted them, and she sold them at the school's silent auction at their annual Art Night.

For these shots I was teetering on top of the highest a-frame ladder I've ever seen. I had to be as high as possible, and used my widest lens, to get all of them in the picture at the same time. It worked! We tried a few things and these were my favorites:

"hands up",


"stand on one foot",


"make a heart with your hands",


and "everybody jump". This was the trickiest - it's hard to just get a family of six to all jump at the same time, let alone a class of school-age kids. (To me that is what makes it especially darling.)


The kids were absolutely delightful - happy and playful and cooperative (which really helps when I have to kind of shout directions from the top of a ladder).

I didn't see the prints' final sale amount, but I hope it was a lot! We love love love our kids' school.

If you like creative children's photography, I'd love to chat with you about a session for your children! Give me a call or you can email and I'll get back with you as soon as I can. You can see some other examples of creative children's photography here.

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