Family Reunion Portraits Summer is upon us, school will be out in the next few weeks.  People are getting ready for their annual vacations.   Occasionally someone will ask us to shoot a family reunion.  Everyone loves the old black and white images of the 1920s and 30s of their relatives, and most would like something to pass down to future generations.    Taking pictures at a family reunion takes a special kind of finesse.  Needless to say, families are all as different as they are the same.  First the basics.  Pictures earlier in the day are best, for multiple reasons.  Children haven’t gotten dirty, or sunburned, no one has spilled their food or drink.  I hate to say it, but old family squabbles also haven’t had time to rear their ugly heads.  For shady locations it won’t matter as much, but for photos out in the open, before 10 or after 2 is better, if that fits within your timeframe.   Various groupings of family members can be very nice to have for the future.  You can consider having an all girls picture, and all boys picture, an all kids picture etc.  The current scrapbooking trend encourages these types of [...]