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Anonymous
Lighting's gonna be more important than what lens you use.
Sunlight and a reflector of some kind is great. foil covered cardboard, or a piece of white styrofoam. Better than a fill flash from the camera, cause you can see what you are doing better.
For positioning, imagine a clock. subject at 12, light around 3 (or 9), reflector around 9 (or 3) and you at six.
Poses... get em to do some formal ones, then they should relax. Plus you have the formal parent photos all taken care of.
I think shots from an angle about 10 degrees higher than her are gonna make her look better.
It doesn't have to be totally sunny. Overcast days can be good to, cause that lighting is diffuse. You can always try both.
Post processing is important too. Blurs are easy, you can boost luminance and add a subtle diffuse glow and get one kind of look that way... generally the airbrushed stuff parents probably like.
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