Family Photo Session Easter 09

I am far from a professional photographer...I love taking pictures of my children and I try to do the different things that I see other's do and hope they will turn out for me.  That is what happened with this picture...I saw this done and I wanted the cool look.  The shadows were bad that day and I guess I wasn't really sure where to focus ...I love the idea just not sure how to make it work :(

My now 15 year old daughter loves to be the subject of my "fooling around with the camera"...most days anyway...  On this particular day I put a brownish coloured blanket over the deck on my mother's trailer and started clicking.  The wind picked up and caught her hair so we call his her supermodel shot...but I wonder why the brownish colour blanket turned out such a purple colour?

My youngest only wants to be in the picture when it is irritating someone else, rarely when I want him to but I caught this sweet moment that I love.  I think this is an amazing shot as you can see the love they have for each other in this shot and every thing about it looks so crisp and clean.

As I said the youngest doesn't usually like pictures but since everyone else was having pictures taken he got in there...I love the attitude with this one.

This one is of my daughter and my niece showing off their teenage attitude.  In some ways I think this is a great picture and in other ways I think it is missing something but I am not sure what.  I blurred out the background as much as possible as I didn't want my mother's trailer door in the picture but I am not sure I got the desired effect.

This last shot was a fluke shot.  My oldest son looked down at his baby brother at the precise moemnt I took the picture, he even apologized after...I think it is an awesome shot showing more emotion than I could have ever hoped for...I am not sure though how to ensure that you will get the look you are after when you are dealing with subjects that are so far apart?