Child Photography Tips
Use our top child photography tips and techniques to capture stunning photographs of children. Kids are wonderful to photograph, but it’s no easy task!
Child Photography
If you are never happier than when you are behind a camera, and have an irresistible urge to take photos of the best that life has to offer, look no further than photographing children. There are few things more precious to a parent than images of their children from the very first hours after birth - and of each and every milestone there-after.
Photo Credit: Mia Rose
Child Photography Equipment
Along with your DSLR camera, you’ll need the following equipment for making the best of photographing children:
• Lenses: Many professional child photographers use a good wide to medium telephoto zoom (24-70mm f/2.8) for child photography. If you work with it at f/2.8 you can still throw the background out of focus, as well as get a good close up from three to four feet away so you don’t intimidate your subject. A 70 – 200mm zoom is also a good choice, especially for portrait photography indoors. Choose a lens with image stabilization for hand held work. Lastly, consider a fast 50mm f/1.4mm standard lens. You can use it wide open to achieve minimum depth of field in close-up portraits. Just make sure you get the focus right for phenomenal results!
• Flash: External flash units are helpful when you photograph in low light as they freeze movement.
Child Photography Tips
• Challenge yourself to take one good photo of your child every day. Not only does it become a spectacular visual diary, it also gives you the amount of practice you need to become really good at photographing children.
• When babies are still very young, wait while they’re asleep for delicate studies of their angelic faces. Focus in on the small details to show off how tiny and vulnerable small children are.
• With bigger children it helps to get them involved in a game or a collaboration of sorts. Keep firing away as they respond to the camera and, when they think the session is over, catch them when they’re off-guard.
• Always be on the lookout for a fresh or interesting settings. Make good use of the beach or take trips to the local park. Some of the best photographs are made when children are having fun.
• Cover the whole range of emotions that children experience: the laughter, the frustration and the tears. The more authentic your images are, the better response you will get from the viewer.
• It’s imperative that the eyes of the child is in sharp focus.
• Take a lot of pictures. This gives you the opportunity to be very selective about what you use. For every 100 photos that you shoot, you may only be happy with three that are really special. If you shoot consistently, it soon adds up and before you know it, you will have a wonderful portfolio of child images.
If you found inspiration on our child photography techniques page, feel free to browse the following pages too:
Related Pages
* Childrens Portrait Photography
* Baby Portraits
* Family Portrait Ideas
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