Baby shooting skills

Only photography can preserve the growth young children and a mix of activities permanently. As time goes by, infant and children's life even more precious photos. Therefore, when taking pictures for children, you should very carefully to ensure every one is the best portrayal of childhood. In accordance with this requirement, it is necessary to understand the psychology of children, but also need to master the photographic techniques; with these two skills together you will successfully achieve your goals.

(1)capture natural expressions

Taking pictures for children to success lies in seize the natural expression of children. Almost every baby photos with this kind of pure quality. Baby photos in daily living environment, not aware of the existence of the camera. At 4 to 5 years old, but the child's age, when the camera lens on their children's reaction is very sensitive, naturally out of curiosity, often replaced for artificial postures and expressions. The affectation of the state is everywhere. Only after pressing the shutter, took the camera, the child will recover innocent nature.

Most children don't pose as required. Specified children pose some poses, the result is always staying in the list. Some eager photos of older children, because want to try my best to your liking, often move far. While others may pose is very passive, just want to finish. If you want to correct the above reaction, you will usually get worse results. Thus, in addition to shooting, avoid guiding children what position.

However, if the children like your choice of a certain action, so, do not need to make any guidance on posture, you can also capture the innocence. Let the child's activities accord with naturally, there will be many photo opportunities, far more than could be focused to design out of the scene. Those without arranged in unexpected situations, made possible the outstanding photos. Object should seize fleeting expression and handguns scene, rather than trying to push children around.

(2)The series group shooting method

To have photography for a child who knows photography, you can choose some scenes children love, such as bedtime stories, playing in the swimming pool, and so on. Then, thinking about a good idea for some photos to perform the activity from beginning to end. This is the group to shoot a series of methods. This method can be applied to a single picture at the end of the event. From the beginning, we should let the children enjoy it; don't design the next action in advance, and then ask the children to do the same. The shooting also began to synchronize with the activity, making the camera has also become an integral part of the activities. Can you get to shoot a series of documents there is a story of the photo, one of the most attractive photos, also can be used as a single photo good use.

Series of group activities of complete after. First photo explains scene, the remaining photos of the express the activities, final photo is end of the activity. At the beginning of the picture should show the child (or a group of children) and major toy or game to use the material in detail, activities highlighted places. Background must be simple, coordinated with the activities taken. The next photo can be close-up, especially facial expression feature. Activities reached a climax, don't make the lens of omission. At the end of the last photo showing activity, make the complete story.

(3)Look for opportunities to take photos

In addition to sleep, children do everything, childhood myriad experiences in a new adventure. Please observe the child's daily life colorful scenes activities may appropriate took a group photo series. The majority of children will repeat a favorite activity, at this time is taking pictures of the time. But don't limit in the scene will be repeated only a photo opportunity. You can use the gift to arouse children's interest, as far as possible to stimulate active nature, instead of creating new opportunities.

If the camera is "join" into the children in the game, so in the child's mind, take pictures and play together. After that, for older children to take pictures, it will be welcomed. But should also try to get the child further cooperation. After taking the last photo, should immediately give them some small rewards, such as please eat a meal to send a small toy or a book. If a picture is always caused by a reward, then pictures will become a very pleasant thing. So, next time again, the children will take a good cooperative attitude. Of course, if you intend to sell or publish these photographs, it is necessary for children and parents or guardians make some arrangements, including Signed the model to agree to the book.

(4)Please work with your assistant.　

Have a happy and lively child is to the first condition of taking excellent children's picture. But, if you do not pay attention to some details of inconsistencies, perfect also may damage the photos. Please assistant work to prevent and correct many be of great advantage to this kind of problem, so that the photographer can be absorbed in outline, as perfect as possible the picture, or seize the transient action. Seize the opportune moment and the mother of the child often provide such help, such as the children scattered a lock of hair neat, clothes pleat smooth, if the shot is a baby, but also with many necessary things to do. If there is a familiar with the working methods of fixed. And the work efficiency will be higher.

When shooting in formal stage, an assistant should stand next to you, a little bit close to the best. If two people share very open, and are all moving, will be a distraction on two factors. When the children felt tired or uncomfortable, gesturing behind can be called assistant, such as the motions of the clown, pick up what guys pretend to knock on your head. In this way, sometimes get his happy expressions.

(5)Lighting

Under the conditions of environment is not easy to control shoot children to illuminate, it is difficult to obtain adequate lighting. Outdoors, if the sunshine is illuminated from behind the main body can be in the camera next to the layout of a reflector or flash as an auxiliary light to make the face get good performance. Backlight can make a distinction between the subject and the background. This is particularly important to shoot dark haired child, because dark hair easily with shady backgrounds or bush background is mixed.

The auxiliary light source electronic flash quick power is also an excellent outdoor photography. Whether it is the use of reflector or regular, improvise, intensity can be observed with the eye shadow of the object parts receive the reflected light. The reflector on the focal plane shutter camera brand is particularly useful because to hold children to play. When the action, must use a high shutter speed is not available, and the focal plane shutter camera so fast, which cannot keep pace with the flash, so you need to use the reflector to provide the necessary illumination. The indoor reflection flash lighting, soft and uniform light, natural light, wide illumination range. The use of auxiliary flash a weak brightness on the camera or camera side can show the child's eyes light.

But through the test to determine the actual shooting environment bounce flash the correct exposure time. Don't forget to record lamps, cameras, and the subject is photographed from the position, the size of the lens aperture, and any other important information. If write down all the details before the exposure will be much better. Can draw a sketch of the filming location, marked the height of the distance between each point and lamps and lanterns, when the film flushing out to be studied, surprised: many things you have forgotten it.

The diffuse light flash by reflection feel soft can very well reflect the characteristic of children. , however, you may want to photo details rich, simple sense is strong. Using direct flash can obtain the performance. In order to make the effect much better, you should use at least two light lamps and lanterns: a light background light, arrangement of far away from the camera position; another auxiliary light lamp, mounted on the camera or camera nearby. The triangle formed the two lamp lighting solutions, to avoid the only by the camera around a thick black shadow and light produced by light photographic plate defects. Built-in camera flash can be used to trigger installed in certain distance driven lighting lamps and lanterns. This slave flash without wires can make the camera outside lighting light source, camera built-in flash as auxiliary light source. Double lamp electronic flash also can make the same lighting arrangement. The strongest camera light source in lighting should be placed on the child's face. the light direction. If a child fails to toward a predetermined light position, then, shadow parts should be formed by adding appropriate lighting.