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July 31, 2007
Rule Of Thumb : Photographing Kids
Last year, on a playgroup day, as I watched my son and his friends clammer around the community playgroup grounds, the sunlight playing on their wild hair, clothes askew with vigorous activities ... I was inspired to capture some great photos. After we came back home, I jotted down these few pointers that i hope inspire great shots of your little ones.
1. Pinks/Muaves/Maroons work best for girls. Blues/Grays/Greens work best for boys. Maybe it is our deeply ingrained sense of distinguishing sex by colour that makes pinks synonymous with girls and blue with boys.
2. Kids craft items work as great props, especially for indoor shoots. other sources of inspiration would be toys and dress ups.
3. Experimenting with the scale of objects proves fantastic and produces striking results in child photography. using large-sized, adult-sized objects in relation to a small child creates the visual emphasis of the child being small and innocent. likewise for abstract pictures, placing kid-sized objects next to regular-sized ones creates the visual emphasis of the smallness of the subject and draws the eye to it.
4. If signboards, writing or any kind of text in the form of banners or notes is required, use a childlike scrawl to enhance the kiddie theme.
5. Motion is great. Catch them in action, doing all the crazy things they do. The Motion Blur effect in pictures can be very visually appealing if arranged in a layout with focused pictures of the same activity.
Posted by Gel at July 31, 2007 6:49 PM
