Family or Group Portraits

Coordinating or matching clothing can go a long way in enhancing group portraits. A few easy suggestions that always look good are denim and white, denim and black, khaki and blue, or khaki and white. You can also choose a color theme. (For example, everyone could wear something {shirt, dress, tie, vest, etc.} red.) Another option is to wear various colors of the same shade (such as khaki pants/skirts with various colors of pastel tops, or blue pants/skirts with various primary/bright tops).

Here are some examples of clothing combinations

Everyone wears blue

Black and white is a classic combination

 

Fall colors

Denim and white is nice for casual portraits...

...as well as denim with brights.

For group portraits it is a good idea to lay out all the clothing on a bed, then step back and take a careful look at it. If one item stands out more than the others, you can be certain that the same thing will happen in a photograph. Replace the item with something more appropriate.

For large extended family portraits it is nice to have everyone coordinating, while each family has its own color. For example, in the picture below, everyone wore denim pants, while the smaller families within the extended family wore red, black, white, gray, and blue tops.