​Shooting pictures of children with emotion

Hi, everyone. I am very happy to have this opportunity to share my thoughts on children's photography.

First, a brief self-introduction, I am ding. Engaged in art teaching, canvas prints is the mother of a five-year-old child. I am not a professional photographer, but I love shooting in my spare time, but I always think that painting is an element in creating pictures, and photography is discovery and interception, which is also an action satisfying visual beauty and can be understood and applied mutually, so photography has become my biggest hobby.

I have been in formal contact with photography for more than three years, canvas picture prints and I have been self-taught for a long time. One year ago, when I was confused, I met a great teacher, Gyeonlee. He told me that our pictures were not short of beautiful fantasy, but of sincere emotion. In addition to touching, I gradually found a photography method suitable for me -- to record some real and loving pictures with emotions.

Today want to chat with you, is my years of experience and basic communication in the late train of thought, there are some nagging, or may not be a lot of friends in the heart for dry goods, acrylic prints australia and this model does not necessarily suitable for a large part of a friend, but I am sincerely want to take a more life and more approached the child's way to share with you.

First, let's talk about the equipment I use now. The body is Canon 5d3, the lens is Canon 35L and 50mm, f1.4. I use 35 focal length at home, 50 focal length outdoors, and occasionally 70-200. Shoot in raw format. However, it is recommended to practice the original JPG format, master the exposure, and try to make the original better in the early stage. In the shooting, 35 heads can allow me to get closer to children. I often shoot with one hand when playing and interacting with children, and the focal length and large aperture are also very suitable for indoor rooms with insufficient space and light. 50 heads, I often use in the outdoor, the child went to the outdoor, the range of activities become larger, but with 50, the child can still be very close to me, and it is small and light, can save a lot of physical strength, but also can keep enough focus out. Then I will share some of my recent children's films with you. Maybe you can see my filming status and environment from the pictures.

As you can see, the shooting is all done in the child's own home and outdoors. There is no assistant, no props that do not belong to the child, no camera lamp, and the shooting is done under natural light. It's all based on reality and life. Three years ago, I didn't do it that way. I used to prepare some costumes and props for the background. Gradually, I took less and less things with me. Until now, I only took my camera with me. The real change began last year. The teacher told me to watch more excellent works, so I watched a lot of excellent foreign works, and I love Japanese lifestyle photography most. In my heart, I think this is more suitable for children's records, because their shooting is related to love!

I hope that the expression of the picture will eventually return to emotion. No matter how the equipment, color and composition are, I will put emotion in the first place. When the picture has a real and loving emotion, I believe it will be unforgettable and will surely move the parents of the children who come to shoot, including myself.

Tell you a little bit more about how I did it. Some illustrations will be used, in which you can see the shooting rhythm and communication details.

Early communication: since the parents booked the shooting, the communication started. I will ask whether they understand the lifestyle shooting mode and whether they can fully accept the photographer's shooting philosophy and Suggestions. This is very important. First of all, you need to know about the child's age and gender. You can also look at the mother's circle of friends and see many pictures of the child's life and study. All these are preparation for communication during shooting.

Some of the home shooting: take the morning shooting as an example, to the children's home, most is about 8 o 'clock in the morning, also depending on the time of the child to get up, some children get up early or the outdoor location is far away earlier. I think for everyone, home is a very important place, where children grow up and learn to love, and there is no place to replace her, so I will choose to shoot at home first. Every child's age, personality and growing environment are different, which requires more patience to understand. Some are shy and shy, some are lively and cheerful, some are just a full moon, and some are teenagers. I sometimes admire myself that I can be a maternity sister-in-law and get along well with the adolescent children, which is very lucky. The children's love enables me to finish the shooting successfully every time. Therefore, I think children photographers also need to learn more skills to better complete the shooting of different objects.

Let's talk about some details about choosing costumes: when we go to our home, we will choose and shoot costumes. All costumes are children's own, and some of them need to be communicated with parents in advance. If they do not meet the requirements of the shooting, I will give advice to buy. I have accompanied my parents to the market to choose for many times, or WeChat took photos of clothes to choose, which a very meticulous and patient preparation is. On dress collocation, simple, and natural, had better not contain metallic material, not gaudy, and must fit. Appropriate clothing is very important in the shooting, and even determines the quality of this shooting, because the color matching has already started from the clothing choice. Pick out the outfit and you're ready to shoot.

Wash a face to brush one's teeth, have breakfast, these are all my love, if it is too early, I didn't eat breakfast, will tell parents ready in advance a, I will eat together, and if the children of the first meeting, this time, we will know, familiar, they thought could come home to have dinner with his people should be worthy of trust. Kids I've photographed multiple times would treat me to breakfast like old friends. When having a meal, do not forget to capture the child to have a meal when all sorts of, the position that adjusts the child to have a meal before taking even, the direction that notices light, indoor light won't be so commonly do one's will, face illuminant won't be wrong!

I also love taking baths. This time do not need to guide deliberately, because they will have a good time! Take advantage of your child's own suitable toys. The bathroom light of a lot of families is not too good, if go to the lavatory in the home, can move the place that takes a bath to day lighting good window edge, if do not suit, have to raise sensitivity to film. I often grab a picture with one hand holding water and the other hand. I can't rule out the possibility of getting wet.

At home, the shooting time is about one and a half to two hours, after breakfast, or takes a shower, it is time to play. Every time I come into the child's room, I will observe, observe the toys and books in their room, and ask him what he likes and what he can share with me. The rest of the time, is between us all kinds of interaction, can draw, reading, can take care of the family pets, in a word, is all kinds of crazy... I will choose the place by the window, where the children's eyes will be bright. I always wear white clothes or light-colored clothes in every shooting. In this way, I can use no reflector and let the clothes form a natural reflection in the eyes of children, so that there will be a beautiful light in the eyes. I avoid messy things at home. I especially like to shoot details. The combination of details makes the picture lovelier. This time, the content of the shooting is really too much, the most important thing is to find the photographer, to guide the children to do what they like to do!

The following lollipop children home toys are particularly many; all can make full use of. He is also a very lively child, so he has been guiding me, but also taught me a lot of natural science knowledge.

They like to record their bright eyes and attentive looks. In the shooting, I will not force the children to look at my lens, nor will parents and children say, look at the lens aunt! Let them play freely in a controlled range; do not do dangerous things, to avoid the child injured.

After getting familiar with it, we are ready to go outdoors to play. I like the choice of outdoor location, which is less crowded, natural and avoids many artificial buildings. At this time, it is usually about ten o 'clock, the sun has often risen; I love the light at this time. When shooting top lights, pay more attention to the children's range of motion. If it is in a place with trees, it will be easier to do so. The shadows of the leaves will be very beautiful, or they will make a great background.

Outdoor time is also a time for children to explore, and this process will lead to the discovery of many interesting things together. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to record this, so I'm going to do all kinds of snaps, candid snaps, squats, tumbles, chases. Personally, I like multi-angle shooting record, which is also very story-telling when put together.

Tips for toplights:

Some babies are small and can only sit or lie prone. I will ask the family to prepare a light color, white or light blue solid color cushion, which will be placed under the child's body and will form a beautiful reflection to the face and eyes. Older children sometimes play directly on the reflector, so a lot of times the reflector is used for play, and by the way the light...

In the parent-child shooting, parents participate and accompany their children to play together. Knowing the work of parents can also record more interesting pictures. The parents of this family set up their own art teaching studio, which is very interesting to shoot in.

At this time, I can be an invisible recorder, using their perspective to shoot, secretly press the shutter. It could be their friends, get involved.

Play for about an hour, everyone is hungry, so take the children to eat lunch, lunch, will pat. The camera has been left on, ready to snap. By this time, 3 canvas prints the child has become so familiar and trusted that he or she becomes a total foodie.

Happy to end the shooting, the time is about four hours or more. It records the children's laughing and crying and their changes every year. I am so lucky to meet such lovely children and their parents. Without their love and trust, it may be difficult for me to stick to this mode.