The original post: /r/photography by /u/hr1966 on 2024-05-16 00:33:02.

I’m wanting to take some portraits of my family (2A 1C), but we collectively dislike the staged happiness and highly choreographed look of the family portrait offerings.

I’m looking for examples (links to images, or descriptions) of unconventional family portraiture. Nothing “dark”, or huddled around an animal we’ve just felled with a rifle - nothing like that. Just different angles, processing methods, creative ideas, things you might have thought of but haven’t tried etc.

Walking through an art gallery, I quite liked a series of individual photographs in the context of things that made them happy. By using the same processing they were clearly part of a series and worked when hung on a wall together. That’s the kind of thing I’m looking for.

I have all the gear, in a previous life I used to do event, corporate, editorial and motorsport photography. I just lack some ideas and creative direction.