take natural images of kids
By joe barrett
6 Mar 2009
there so many mums and dads out there that wish natural images and smiles of their children,the best way to do that is to take them where they feel in control.take Madie and Egg,two beautiful sisters but have never had any good images of them selfs ,while the so called smiles were there it looked more like they wished to bit you.so we,mum the girls and i headed for a local beach,Aussie kids love the beach and are very relaxed there.when the cameras came out, straight away the girls faces dropped but when told that all they had to do was go and play they could not believe their luck and were gone in seconds.
mum and i had the hard part,mum kept the girls safe while a needed to keep up with the kids while they played.at first the sisters froze when they saw the camera but as soon as they realized this would not inter fer with their play they forgot they were even there. in fact after a time i was allowed to join in and the images that we wanted stared to appear and at at the end of the day all of went home happy,try it,it works.if you look through these images you will see not every image is perfect but the joy on the kids make up for this.
you only have your children for a short while and its so sad that more families are taking less images of their kids leaving them for the fake ,plastic pixie photos we see much of these days.we only have our little ones for a short time and its so wonderful if we could capture their beauty while they are this stage of their lifes.it will never happen again.
4 responses
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Charles Gossett gave props (6 Mar 2009):
You got my vote Joe!!
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suzanne said (6 Mar 2009):
nice one Joe!
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Martin E. Morris gave props (7 Mar 2009):
Great advice Joe,backed up with the images to prove it.This technique works with adults too!!! Voted !!!
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Dirk HR Spennemann said (21 Mar 2009):
The other thing is to make use of the rapid fire option. Just keep the finger on the button! In staged pics you'll get the frozen and weird cheeeeeeese smile but once they hear the shutter go off (and you say "done") the kids relax,,.and the camera keeps firing and you're getting normal, relaxed images!!
