Last Monday I taught a class for photographers under the Professional Photographers of America’s Super Monday program.  I decided I would like to photograph a family for the class and asked one of my clients and former neighbors if they would mind posing for me.  I had not photographed them for several years and two children ago.  They happily said yes and were willing to come early in the morning.  Getting five kids ready and out the door for an 8:30 am gathering is no easy task!  It was a gorgeous day – hard to come by this spring.  We met at my home gallery and caravanned up to one of my favorite locations.  I decided not to do much if any instruction during the session because I didn’t want to lose the children.  I checked the exposure, set up the pose and went to work.  I had one student holding a large reflector to block the splotchy light coming through the trees and on to their faces.  I also had another student press the camera’s shutter release when I told her too so I could go in and out to get the family’s attention.  The kids were pretty well behaved so we didn’t have to work too long to get a nice shot.  After the family left I spent some time talking about how I do what I do and some of the techniques I use to capture the attention of the kids.  We finished up the family portrait session part of the day by downloading the images and showing some of the techniques I use in Photo Shop to work the image.  All that is boring on a blog, but I wanted to share my favorite image of the day.  One think I did differently.  I usually sign with a signature, but decided to try signing with my Ted York Photography logo.  If you have a chance let me know which you like the best (you can refer to some of my other blogs to see the difference.)