Where is a good place to find photo props or stuff for pictures? I take all of my kids and family photos but need some props. Thank you
What's your style? Like for us, it would be vintage classic cars, fields of daisies, canoes, the James River, fishing poles, medical books, vintage posters... that's our style. We use what's 'us'... We could never take a family photo in front of a lit fireplace, that's not who we are ;)
Use whatever defines you as a family :)
for my photo shoots, I like to go to antique stores and I also LOVE etsy for newborn props!!
Check out yard sales, craft stores, home decor stores.
To keep yourself focused, try jotting down a few 'themes' and shop towards them.
Etsy is a great suggestion too.
Silly stuff is fun. I know a couple... at many of their parties, they have a featured prop and let everyone use it. One year it was a horrible black seventies polyester zip jumpsuit. We all added our own touches to it and pictures were taken. Another year, it was wigs. (I know... but we were all lice-free adults.)
Someone once used an empty picture frame, holding it up with her husband and their kids in the middle of it as 'the picture'. What about a croquet set? There's a fun one that can be used after pics are done.
I'm on the same page as Rachel D. Check out thrift stores, yard sales and garbage picking!! I also love to go to different places that have great background scenery. For instance, my husbands family has a cottage up at a lake and in the back yard was this old, run down, paint peeling, red, barn like shed. I put my 8 month old son in jean overalls with no shirt in front of it with a vintage dog pull-toy and got fantastic pics from that. A neighbor up near the cottage also had this old wooden swing hanging from a tree and I put my daughter in a pretty L. sundress and just let her have fun on the swing and got some beautiful pics from that too. I hate those props they use at those studios in the malls, I like things that are really different. I've actually just searched on the internet to get ideas and then went and found things on my own either free or cheap like thrift stores.
BTW, if you've never heard of the website www.freecycle.org you should check it out. It would be a great place to acquire things for props for free. If you want more info on it, send me a message.
