Children Playgrounds

tecboy · Jul 4, 2013

Feedback anyone?

Kolia · Jul 4, 2013

You built it ?

flow · Jul 4, 2013

Wouldn't it be a better shot if there were kids on it, doing something?

ShaneF · Jul 4, 2013

I think they are great pictures of your subject (the equiptment) but they make me feel like i am looking at a sales catalog,

tecboy · Jul 5, 2013

What can I make these photographs difference? If I shoot kids, I creep out their parents. I rather not shooting with kids around.

MetroRuss · Jul 5, 2013

Hi Im just a newb but I was thinking that the shots could.look better early morning or early evening with a blue sky and not such strong sunshine?

Gavjenks · Jul 5, 2013

tecboy said:
What can I make these photographs difference? If I shoot kids, I creep out their parents. I rather not shooting with kids around.

If you're gonna shoot playgrounds, then I think you need to suck it up and shoot with kids at them, creeped out parents or not (or make them not creeped out. Go to the trouble of asking and handing out legit business cards, etc., or go with a friend who has a kid and is willing to say you're their dad, etc. etc.).

If you absolutely can't abide creeping out parents or are convinced you can't change their minds and will get arrested then shoot something other than playgrounds? They are devices that exist for kids to play on them, so it is odd to not have kids. Unless you intentionally want it to be weird, like "oh look at my artsy sales brochure style" or go at midnight with a fog machine and make it a creepy abandoned zombie playground, well then have at it!

ShaneF · Jul 5, 2013

I usually just offer to take my niece and nephew of my sisters hands for a few hours and she is more then willing to let that happen for some time to herself.

irfan.in.tx · Jul 5, 2013

If you want to shoot playground equipment without kids, you can make your pictures interesting by going in close. There are quite a few geometric shapes there, and you could get a bunch of good pictures with creative framing of your shots.

amolitor · Jul 5, 2013

What do you see in this equipment that makes you want to photograph it?

You don't have to tell me the answer to that question, but answering it for yourself will probably go a ways toward making better pictures of playground equipment. There are a bunch of possible reasons to shoot these things, all of which lead to different ways to handle them. What you have here are simple record shots, "here is this object", which doesn't give us any hint of what it is you're seeing there that's interesting.

ktan7 · Jul 5, 2013

I would take more detail shots of the playground rather than the entire thing.

sashbar · Jul 5, 2013

tecboy · Jul 5, 2013

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There you go. Are these awesome or what?!

sashbar · Jul 5, 2013

tecboy said:
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There you go. Are these awesome or what?!

No, these are far from awesome, of course. Just a quick heavy crop from your shots to probably give you some ideas to go back there and play with some close-ups on shapes, lines, geometry, angles and texture. As mentioned above the playground gives you an opportunity for some geometrical compositions, thats all. Actually it is a great training in finding balance, understanding visual weight, composition etc. I would probably go even closer by the way, but your images do not allow to crop too much here. Anyway, that's how I would try to shoot an empty playground.