We chose three colors when finding outfits, two neutrals and a standout color: blue, grey, and Mustard yellow.
We gave the baby a photo friendly prop to play with (in this case it happened to be a yellow corncob)
We looked for natural staging for added height difference. As the older kids have gotten taller, spacing is not as easy as when everyone was clearly different heights according to age. A picnic table worked well in this scene, giving us three layers. if everyone had been standing, it would have looked more like this picture, which gets the job done but doesn’t look as natural
We placed the children in reverse order of behavability: shoes who could stand still longest went in first.