Help with children!! C&C!

[SabrinaO]

Composition goes OUT the window with 2 year olds... especially this one! He would not hold still, punching the backdrop and hitting the balloons. Only until the cake was brought in would he calm down a little. Anyone have any tips on getting children to FOCUS?



1. ONLY decent regular portrait. My fault having toys in the studio....

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how do you like the vintagey look?

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[TexJoachim]

You don't bring children to focus. You adapt to their play. Have toys in the studio, let them play with them. Take your portrait/photos while they play.

Regards,

Joe

 

[Derrel]

Superb lighting in most of these, for this type of portraiture!!!! Good, whole-body lighting, beautiful catchlights, and even enough lighting across the set to allow the kid to move around, and yet with just enough lighting ratio to create 'some' shadows. Great job on the lighting! I think the B&W shot at the end is outstanding. Some day this set will be cherished.

 

[L0vemedead]

I agree, go along with them playing, you'll actually probably get better shots

These are really good. I like them a lot.

 

[mwcfarms]

Nice set Sabrina. As mentioned. You don't get children to focus. If you do it starts looking like a Sears or Walmart portrait and the reason people come to you is probably because you offer something different. I would just roll with the punches and show the real child as he or she is. What your background actually blue seamless paper. I love it.

 

[The_Wanderer]

I liked it, superb

 

[SabrinaO]

You don't bring children to focus. You adapt to their play. Have toys in the studio, let them play with them. Take your portrait/photos while they play.

Regards,

Joe

I agree 100% with this.. and this works for on location sites and outdoor photos, but in studio I think this is hard because the backdrop is only so big. And when the child keeps running away.... I don't think the parents want photos of their child from around my studio. Anyway.. I will try to adapt to their play. Maybe I should have toys handy that they can play with related to the type of session. I think that will work! :mrgreen:

 

[SabrinaO]

Superb lighting in most of these, for this type of portraiture!!!! Good, whole-body lighting, beautiful catchlights, and even enough lighting across the set to allow the kid to move around, and yet with just enough lighting ratio to create 'some' shadows. Great job on the lighting! I think the B&W shot at the end is outstanding. Some day this set will be cherished.

Thanks Derrel! You are always soo nice :hug::

 

[photocist]

bring more cake

 

[SabrinaO]

lol... he only ate some of the frosting.

 

[SabrinaO]

Nice set Sabrina. As mentioned. You don't get children to focus. If you do it starts looking like a Sears or Walmart portrait and the reason people come to you is probably because you offer something different. I would just roll with the punches and show the real child as he or she is. What your background actually blue seamless paper. I love it.

Thanks for the tip. And yes... the paper is ocean blue from B&H