Yay! You booked your family portrait session and are thrilled to capture memories of the ones you love most, but now you have to face the often-dreaded dilemma most clients face—what do we wear?
Curating your wardrobe for a photoshoot can be tricky when you don't know where to begin, but by keeping a few key principles in mind, you can create a photoshoot wardrobe with ease.
Before diving into the main principles of curating a wardrobe, let us remind you that Hello Jude offers a complimentary client wardrobe. We aim to provide a stress-free portrait session for new and growing families. Offering wardrobe consultations and the wardrobe itself is a massive benefit to our clients and removes the most significant cause of stress.
Let's also keep these phrases in mind as we curate a wardrobe.
"Coordinate, don't Match," and "Timeless, not trendy."
In other words, don't put every member of your family in the exact same outfit. Remember when the thing to do was have everyone where a white shirt and denim? Let's avoid that so we can create a more tailored feel.
And don't try to wear the latest trends in fashion during your shoot. Trends come and go, but we want your photos to be loved for years to come.
Whether you utilize our client wardrobe or curate a wardrobe yourself, these are the primary principles we focus on to provide the best possible outcome.
We focus on three categories when selecting a client wardrobe- color, texture, and pattern.
Color
The colors you select for your wardrobe play a vital role in your portrait session. Our goal is for you, your family, or your newborn to shine. We have found that keeping the colors light and neutral is the ideal option for keeping our clients the focus of the shoot.
It doesn't have to be all white, tan, and beige. Although we do use these colors as our foundation and build from there, adding light and muted colors with these basic foundational colors creates a bespoke color palette unique to every client. We suggest using muted blues or greens to keep it timeless and classic.
We avoid bright colors for a few reasons. Bright clothing draws your eyes away from the clients themselves and distracts from anything else in the image. Bright colors also tend to reflect onto other surfaces and cast that color onto the surrounding people, walls, items, etc. In other words, if you have on a bright pink shirt next to a white wall, the wall will likely look pink.
Pattern
Just like combining and mixing textures is crucial, mixing patterns is vital.
Remember when we said, "Coordinate, don't match?" This is where that comes into play again. What type of patterns do we suggest? Solids, organic patterns like florals, and structured patterns like a small gingham or little stripe.
It's important to remember that you don't want to pair two big patterns next to each other. We prefer juxtaposing a solid, organic, and structured pattern together.
Texture
We love to combine and mix textures because they play nicely together to create the little details of the portraits. What do we mean by texture? Think of fabrics like linen, denim, crochet, eyelet, gauze, etc. Not everyone in the image needs a crazy textured outfit, but adding one or two noticeable textures to your wardrobe will make a beautiful impact and elevate the portraits. Some of these textures also play a role in our other two principles- color and pattern. For example, an eyelet fabric will likely be a solid color but a patterned texture.
These three categories dictate the wardrobes we curate for clients and are what we recommend when clients curate their own outfits.
Again, Hello Jude prides itself on creating stress-free portraits for families. We enjoy helping our clients select suitable wardrobe options for their families and removing that stress. We provide our clients who select to use the client wardrobe with a mood board (as seen above) to know how their wardrobe will pair together.
If you are interested in booking a portrait session for your family or newborn, and utilizing our client wardrobe, you can contact us here.
Hello Jude Photography provides newborn photography in North Georgia for busy moms who want stress-free and luxury portrait experience. Also offering maternity, family, and baby photography, our studio is located in the heart of Demorest, between Clayton and Gainesville. We serve families in Habersham, White, Stephens, Hall, Rabun, Banks, Jackson, Gwinnett, Forsyth, and Dekalb Counties, and all throughout the North Georgia region.
We offer a high-end, full service experience including a pre-session consultation, exclusive access to the carefully curated Studio Wardrobe and cozy bright and airy studio space, a beautiful gallery of story-telling images, and an array of family heirlooms such as albums, prints, custom framing and more to pass down to your children. If you are searching for the perfect maternity, birth, newborn or family portrait photographer near Demorest and are wanting to create heirlooms for your family, we can’t wait to serve you.