10 Common Skills of Children's Photography

As children grow up, their reactions to things will be different. Generally speaking, children 0.5- 1 year-old mainly rely on sounds (such as rattles, small horns or the barking of cats and dogs) to attract their attention and make them happy.

1-4-year-olds are no longer interested in all kinds of pleasant sounds. What attracts them and makes them tempted is playing games (such as throwing balls at each other or playing roles with puppet gloves, deliberately acting weird in front of children). Only by putting down the shelf of elders or parents can we win the trust of children, relax our vigilance and capture vivid and interesting shots.

Children aged 5- 10 are determined subjectively, and they are dismissive of deliberately exaggerating and pretending to make a fool of themselves, which may show contempt. The best way to deal with them is to have a cordial and sincere conversation with them. Moreover, in the conversation, he said some stupid things that were contrary to the facts, which made him feel ridiculous. When they show a well-meaning mocking smile, it is often the best time to press the shutter.

2. Long-distance tracking method

If you have a telephoto lens with a long focal length, you can make full use of the advantages of this equipment to track and shoot children at a long distance. If you take pictures in the park, you can hide yourself in trees and flowers, only revealing the camera lens, so that children can't notice that they are taking pictures, and their expressions will look relaxed and natural. Once you find an interesting scene from the suggestion box, you can take a snapshot. It should be noted that the telephoto lens with long focal length is bulky, and the slow shutter speed will often cause jitter, so it is best to choose the shutter speed above1125 seconds when shooting.

Step 3 take it by surprise

In daily shooting, we often encounter such a situation. The child had a good time, but once the camera was aimed at him, his expression immediately became dull and embarrassed. To overcome this shortcoming, we can adopt a surprise method. The specific way is to pretend to be indifferent to the child's every move, and at the same time, don't aim the camera at him. In the dark, the distance and target are set by visual inspection, and the aperture and shutter speed are set according to the light and environment of the shooting scene. When you find a shot that can be shot, you will immediately convey the shot to the subject, so that you can be quick-eyed, quick-hearted and quick-handed, and take a good moment into the lens decisively, successfully capturing the wonderful expressions of children and giving people opportunities.

4. draw the tiger away from the mountain.

There is a saying called "Tong Yan, June day, change when you say it." In fact, for some children who are sensitive to reactions, sometimes it is even difficult to capture his or her fleeting best performance. In this case, if there is a helper, you can consider using "transfer the tiger in the mountain". That is, let the "helper" talk to the child or play games with him (her), do everything possible to attract the child's attention and forget that there is a camera aimed at him (her) nearby. At this time, when shooting, you can concentrate on all the preparations. Press the shutter as soon as you find the child's wonderful expression.

5. Fast attack method

This way, you don't have to point the persuader directly at the child. But aim at the target by the angle of the camera lens. The best shooting distance is 3-5 meters. Do a good job of distance calibration by visual inspection, try to choose a smaller aperture, and make full use of hyperfocal distance to make up for the unclear phenomenon that may be caused by inaccurate ranging. The shutter speed can be greater than1125 seconds, so as to avoid the defect of blurred picture. The key to shooting in this way is that the photographer will not be too vigilant and can take a satisfactory shot quickly when he is unprepared. Because the eyes are replaced by hands, the photos taken by the fast attack method are not the same as expected, and there are often shortcomings in composition and persuasiveness, but these can be corrected by post-production of photos.

6, waiting to work.

Before shooting, choose the scene, set up the camera, get ready, and then wait patiently for the children to enter the shooting range, often capturing the ideal shooting lens.

7. Cooling method

For some naughty children, sometimes they earnestly advise him to stand in the camera, and he will not do so. This is to make sure not to worry, but to treat him coldly and deliberately ignore him. Children are most afraid of being left out and will take the initiative to talk to photographers. You can take a snapshot of him when he approaches the photographer actively.

8. Let it run its course

Sometimes I meet some particularly timid children, and if I can't guide them correctly, it will make him sulk or cry with a straight face. In this case, the most common reaction of parents is to hide the camera. Because people are often used to thinking that it is a good shot for children to smile when taking pictures, otherwise it seems that they will not show their liveliness and cuteness. In fact, this is not absolute. Because photography is an art, art pays attention to beauty. Real life is a beauty. As long as it is the expression of true feelings, other expressions of children, such as anger, surprise, curiosity, surprise, injustice and even crying, have beautiful value and can enter the camera. Therefore, if a child cries while taking pictures, you can just take pictures of him crying or angry, which is realistic and can be kept as a souvenir in the future.

9. Follow the photography method

The children are very active and full of energy. A healthy child seldom stays still for a few seconds in his life. However, there are also touching childish interests in sports. How to take a good picture of the children in the activity, so that the image is clear and dynamic? It is a good method to follow the shooting method.

Follow-up photography mainly relies on the strong contrast of background, virtual movement and the clarity of the subject to express the movement. In order to better emphasize this contrast and strong sense of movement, we should choose dark and chaotic background, such as trees, crowds, dark buildings and so on. In this way, when the rotating camera follows the shooting, fuzzy lines will appear in the background, which is in sharp contrast with the bright and clear shooting subject. Side light and background light should be used in the light, so that the moving subject can get a distinct outline line, which is not easy to blend with the background color, which is more conducive to highlighting the subject.

10, continuous photography

Continuous photography refers to a series of closely related photos taken through the continuation of shooting time. In children's photography, continuous photography can vividly and systematically record the whole process of children's activities, especially to show children's emotional changes step by step and portray children's expressions in detail. The photos taken by the successful continuous shooting method are profound in expression and strong in appeal, which is often incomparable to a single photo.

Although it is difficult to take continuous photos of children's daily life, parents have some unique advantages in taking photos for their children. The problem is how to use them. For example, at a child's birthday party, you can film the arrival, activities, games and farewell of the child. Take one photo of each activity and arrange it in chronological order to become a series of photos of children's birthdays. You can also take a series of photos quickly in the middle, such as putting on birthday cakes, cutting cakes, sharing and so on. In daily life, there are many such opportunities. The continuous photos of children's innocent joy, anger and fear can simply constitute a complete and wonderful fairy tale world. As long as you are good at observing and adopting different shooting techniques (such as teasing, waiting, following and snapping), you will get a complete and wonderful story in the fairy tale world.