To celebrate the launch of our updated website we introduced the Second 20 photo collage. The idea with this one is to take a series of snapshots of your favourite small person (or persons) on a plain background. We then take your photos and turn them into a stunning photo collage – highlighting the expressions and bringing out the character of the person(s) in the photos.
Taking the photos themselves is easy and does not take long at all. The main requirement is to have a plain (preferably light coloured) background to take the photos against. The reason for this is that it does not distract from the face of the person in the photo and keeps all the photos uniform.
Try and use natural lighting if possible, so you don’t have to use the flash. Doing this will help to avoid stark dark shadow areas. If lighting is not great, then switch the ISO setting on your camera to a higher number. Above all, remember that this is not supposed to be an exercise in taking technically perfect photos, but rather to capture expression and to have some fun!
Two of our original photos:
A prop of some kind will really help with getting children to relax and mess around a bit! We just gave our son Ethan his mum’s glasses and that was all that was needed! The only bit of direction we did was to ask Ethan to look left, right, up and down. The rest was him just doing his own thing!
The finished Second 20 Life Poster:
It took 5mins to take the photos, but we will treasure our Second 20 for years to come.
When you send us your photos, we will convert them to black and white, adjust as needed, then create your life poster. It will be printed on Professional Epson 255gsm glossy photo paper.
To order please click here.
