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The following tip on photographing Children was submitted as an exclusive tip to DPB by Amy Renfry of the Digital Photography Success e-book.
Children and both wonderful and exhausting! They can leave a perfectly fit adult in a state of exhaustion we’re not careful! But how beautiful they are to photograph. I should say, to be more precise, they are beautiful and the experience of photographing them is a heartwarming one.
Kids are forever running, playing, imagining, inventing, discovering and trying out new things. There are a few mistakes we make with photographing children and I’m going to tell you what they are so you can avoid them and get sensational digital photos of your kids- or someone else’s kids.
There are four major important tips I to share with you when taking digital photographs of your children.
1. The first major important tip to taking great photos of children is taking them progressively, like you would a baby. Don’t just take photos of them when it’s Christmas time, or when they have a birthday party, or at a wedding. Photograph them while they are building a cubby house in the back yard, at the beach building a sand castle, paying with the dog, or even sleeping. If you are ready to go and whip out that digital camera of yours when children are active like this, you’ll be amazed at what sensational shots you can get.
2. The second important tip to taking great photos of children is to be super, super fast. One second they are climbing over the play equipment and the next they are running around the yard, and the next they want to play in the sandpit. And all that might be in the very fast space of about 5 minutes. In that five minutes with all that play activity you could have potentially 20 or 30 shots. And in all that shooting, you may find you have taken a winner. You might just get that all important digital shot of a great facial expression, a smile, a laugh and a joyous feeling from your child. And you will be so very, very glad you were speedy on that shutter button.
3. The third major tip is not to get them to pose. You can, but this will wear on the child’s patience quite quickly and they will get very bored in s fast time frame. So work with them, don’t expect them to do what you want, otherwise a nice photo shoot could change a happy child into an irritable one.
4. The fourth major tip of taking great photos of children is to take the photo at their eye level. So many times I’ve seen a photo where the angle is the child, small in the center of the photograph. Why not get on your knees or get in close and fill the frame and you’ll see what excellent composition this create and how much better your photos of your child will instantly improve.
Read more of Amy's tips in her Digital Photography Success e-book.
Also read more about photographing children at DPS.
Posted by Darren in our Tips category on August 08, 2006