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Family Photo Giveaway Winner

Below is our Family Photo Giveaway Winner
click on the winner’s selected category to school yourself on assembling a merry holiday memory.
Grand Prize Winning Winner
in carefully conceived Textures & Patterns
making monochromatic anything but monotone
Alyson Young of Young ‘Uns
Photogenic proponents that must be shared
(not only because they are adorable, but because they are instructive):
 
 Honorable Mention
Best Analagous Color Scheme (Blue, Purple, Green)

Nicole of Five Peas

Honorable Mention
Perfect Seasonal Skin Exposure
Miss Melissa

Honorable Mention
Optimum Prop Usage
Lady Lauren
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How to Dress for a Family Photo: Add a Prop

Add apotheosis to your own family fashion shoot by including an inanimate extra. Expose your memory to film in Grandpa’s orchard, allow each child a treasured snuggly escort, or use the family sailboat as a candid portrait backdrop.  
However, take caution.  Prop inclusion can easily go astray and if you wish to avoid someday seeing your portrait on Awkward Family Photos, avoid the contrived using the following three truisms*:
1) Don’t give the prop undue attention 
Holding an element uncharacteristically near the face or adding digital drama to it post-process are sure fire paths to future regret.
2) Present props in a natural setting
While a boardwalk bred ice cream cone is native as sand to the beach, it looks awkwardly out of place in the sterile studio.  If everyday life wouldn’t bring your element and environment into concurrence, carefully consider your defiance of nature.

3) If in doubt, favor furniture
Chairs and chaises, beds and boxes, if your prop can accommodate staged seating, it’s immediately innate.  Select furnishings that partner your personal panache whether its an Eames lounger or vintage elementary school desks. 

(*I’ve seen people that have broken all of these rules successfully, but generally speaking I recommend at least considering them before you break them.)

Finally one of the bestest places to pilfer photography inspiration is magazines.  Scour editorials and consider opportunities to recreate your favorite spread.


Oh, and forget about saying cheese. Think about a pretty pair of shoes instead. You want to emanate natural bliss and footwear has a much higher chance of precipitating felicity than fermented dairy.  And did I mention that your shoesies will most likely show? Don’t overlook this functional accessory.  Tell Uncle Eunice to leave his dirty cobbler-wear in the garage.

The giveaway winner will be announced on Monday, so enter yourself now!

Allow Cardigan Empire to style your kin for their next Family Photo. Click here to book a family-sized virtual shopping session.

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