What do you do when your two year old refuses to sit for a picture with her sister?

You work out a solution.

My solution was to hand her a prop and not ask her to look at the camera. No saying “cheese”. If you look at any of my photography I’m not really that type of photographer anyway. Of course my older daughter is much easier to pose, the problem I ran into taking her photo would be that I didn’t have the natural window light I benefited from when taking her sister’s photo the day before. So I simply created my own window light with my flashes. I also took a Polaroid of each girl, but that is for another post.

The last thing was to combine the photos to create a diptych. I ran this version through Nik Analog Effex to give it a wet plate look, but the version that will be heading out to our family will be in bright Christmas colors.