Multi-generation family photography
The photograph nobody has because
it is hard to arrange.
Extended-family sessions exist because getting everybody in one place happens once or twice a year at best — a birthday, a christening, someone flying in. When it does happen, thirty minutes with a photographer produces something no phone photograph replaces.
The key is a planned running order. The full group is photographed first, then each household, then the grandparents with the grandchildren, then whatever combinations you ask for.
Planning a larger session
What makes a big group work.
- Confirm the total number of adults and children with AOU Studio before booking.
- Choose a session length that allows for full-group and smaller-group photographs.
- Send a list of must-have groupings ahead of the session.
- Nominate one family member to gather people for each grouping.
- Coordinate outfits loosely — a shared palette rather than matching clothes.
- Plan around the youngest and oldest members of the group, not the average.