Your Place, or Mine? Why Your Home Could Be the Perfect Backdrop for Your Family Session!

katie kueck
Jun 12, 2022
2 min read

While the majority of my family photography clients opt for an outdoor location, there are certainly advantages and benefits to choosing your home for a session!

Here in central Texas, we share the outdoors with a wide variety of creatures, including the omnipresent fire ants in all that beautiful, tall grass. Not to mention the slithery fellow who may also be lurking there.

Especially for families with members with physical or mental differences (difficult to take a pathway to a field, unable to move up and down stairs with ease, children who cannot grasp the dangers of running into a busy parking lot for example), a home session may be a perfect fit.

I have also seen families who have just completed a big renovation on their home and want to celebrate that. Or families who are leaving a home that has been important to them and want to document what may be their children's first home along with their family.

One common comment I get from clients considering a home session is "but my home is too messy!" While your home will be in the pictures, it doesn't ALL need to be in the pictures! Choose a small dark room where we won't shoot and put extra clothes, books, papers, children's toys into laundry baskets and hide them away in there. We will want to stick to 1-3 well lit rooms and the front and/or back yard/porch/outdoor common areas for the shoot so decluttering can be quick and contained to those spaces.

And of course - newborn sessions! These are so much better in your home in my opinion. I love lifestyle newborn sessions where you get to see the delicious little nugget and also the nursery and older siblings or fur siblings that can be comfortable in their usual environment. It also makes it easy to take nursing or bottle breaks or changing breaks without having to pack and carry all the *stuff* babies require :)

NEWBORN IN HOME SESSION