I would love to have portraits done of all our kids.(We never had one done)
Which would be my DSD,my DS from my first marriage and mine and DH's DS and DD.
OK here is the question? Someone said to me that I should include Josh "our Angel" in the pic.
What do you all think? And how could I do it? I would really love to do it by Christmas for DH.
Any suggestions??? Maybe Just put a pic of Josh in front of the kids? Not really sure. Maybe a good photographer could put Josh looking down at the kids from a pic of him?
I have mixed feelings about this. What is your honest opinion and what would you do?
TIA

By Vicki on Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 03:40 pm:

I really think you could go either way. It would look nice for someone to be holding a framed picture of him on their lap kind of casualy. But I also don't think that you "have" to do it. I don't think anyone would think it was odd if you didn't. I think I would do the photograph of him in the picture before one of him looking down on them though.

By Juli4 on Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 04:07 pm:

I would say someone holding a picture of him would be nice. You want him in the picture naturally, but you don't necessarily want that to be the main focus of the picture. You don't want anyone thing to be the focus of the pic. I am for someone holding the pic.
I agree though if you decide that it wouldn't work then no one would think it was odd that you didn't and that wouldn't mean you love him any less or anything like that.

By Brandy on Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 04:08 pm:

I agree with vicki also if you do have a picture framed you want to make sure it's not copywrighted (sp?)

By Vicki on Thursday, November 3, 2005 - 04:31 pm:

It would also look nice if the setting was a living room or something and his framed picture was on an end table or something.

By Breann on Friday, November 4, 2005 - 06:32 pm:

I saw this done beautifully at a portrait studio. It was one of the HUGE photo's hanging on their wall. It was done outdoors in a group of fall trees. The family was all situated on rocks with some standing up. There was a soft circle with a photo of a little girl in it. It was up above the family and to the left. It was beautiful. LIke a little angel up there.

By Kate on Friday, November 4, 2005 - 06:53 pm:

I probably wouldn't include Josh, but of the good suggestions offered above I like Vicki's second suggestion the best.

By Annie2 on Friday, November 4, 2005 - 06:58 pm:

I like Vicki's second suggestion, too.

By Marcia on Friday, November 4, 2005 - 10:14 pm:

We had a family portrait done for my parents' 40th anniversary, which was 4 years after my nephew Brett died. My sister has always hated that he wasn't in the picture. A few years later she took the picture into a specialty shop, along with a picture of Brett that would fit in, and they redid the picture with him in it. It's amazing what can be done with digital. No one would ever know that he wasn't there when the picture was taken, and the family looks complete. (other than people who were born after the pic was taken, which is totally different)