When many people go out for a trip, they want to take more photos for the children as a souvenir. However, in most cases, they just keep pressing the shutter, and there are not many photos that are really particularly beautiful.
Today, I will learn about children's photography experience with Japanese photographer yuria to see how he took photos of children. It should be useful next time he goes out to play.
1. Shooting angle
When we take pictures of our children, we cannot always observe from the perspective of adults, because this is closer to overhead shooting, which is easy to appear large on top and small on the bottom and inconsistent proportions.
We can try to squat down and shoot at the same high angle as children, so that there will be no strange proportions and the whole picture can be displayed. In addition, this child's perspective also has a sense of substitution and communication, making the photos look more vivid.
2. Guide & capture
If you want to take good-looking photos for children, you cannot completely hope to make them particularly obedient. We need to learn to guide children.
After we can plan in advance for angles, compositions, and themes, we must guide the children to the designated position and attract their attention through languages, toys, etc., and then seize the opportunity to capture . You can cooperate with continuous shooting , and then select photos later.
3. Shooting scenes
When shooting children, many people focus on their children's faces, so they use the camera to shoot with their faces. Finally, after taking pictures, they find that the beautiful thing is the child not the photo itself.
When shooting for children, we need to reasonably select scene and combine it with a good environment:
If you want to highlight the child's face, we can choose close-ups to shoot facial features with a large aperture blur effect, or take close-up shots with a simple background;
If you are going out to play and the environment is better, we can choose a long-range or even a panoramic view, and then emphasize the children's presence in the picture through composition, color comparison, etc.
4. Interaction
If you want to shoot a sense of communication and intimacy, you cannot do without interaction. The interaction between children, the interaction between children and small animals, plants, toys, etc. can make the picture full of childlike fun.
So when shooting in specific terms, we need to pay attention to these key moments of , and take photos with the child's sight and movements reasonably. Of course, as photographers, we can also interact with our children. In addition to taking selfies, we can also instantly take pictures of holding hands with our children, looking back, and our shadows with our children. These are all good elements of family affection.
5. Props
When going out with children, we must carry some toys, snacks, etc. We can make good use of these props when shooting. On the one hand, we can use these items to attract children's attention and guide them to cooperate with the shooting;
On the other hand, we can use these items as decorative elements in the photos, such as when children play with toys, we can take pictures.
6. Photo release
Pay attention to photo release We need to pay attention to these points: first of all, photos are not about many but about essence. Before publishing, we can unify filters and composition to make the photos more beautiful;
Secondly, the photos are better to have some differentiation, has main and secondary , that is, try not to All photos are children, which can easily cause aesthetic fatigue. We can display photos through close-up, long-term cooperation, and scenery and character cooperation;
Finally, when publishing children's photos, you need to pay attention to privacy . The child's face, photo shooting location, time, etc. in the photo can expose a lot of information, so you need to be cautious when publishing externally, especially an open social platform, and do not easily show privacy.
That’s all for today’s content ~
