Guiding skills of children's photography

Lead: The child is not a professional model. When taking pictures of children, we need to guide them to cooperate with the shooting in order to get the desired effect. Let's take a look at the guidance skills!

What knowledge do tour guides need to learn systematically?

First, child psychology, if you want to guide your baby well, you must know your baby, be familiar with and master the psychological characteristics of children of all ages, and then you can play a better guiding role in your work. While mastering the theoretical foundation and combining with practice, you will make great progress.

Second, baby care knowledge, correct posture, shooting posture adjustment, safety protection, etc. Be sure to study it carefully during the baby shooting. After all, safety comes first!

Three, photography related knowledge, makeup, clothing, background, props and color coordination. Everyone needs to learn and master, so that the whole process of directing shooting can be smooth, thus improving work efficiency.

Fourth, to understand what infants like, we should keep a childlike innocence. For example, watch more cartoons that children like to watch, and read more books, children's songs and dances related to infants. And even learn some magic. Problem baby? Show off your talents when you are young.

Understand the general psychological characteristics of children

If you want to do a good job of guidance, you must first understand the baby's psychology. By understanding the baby's psychology, we can draw inferences from others and innovate the guidance methods to meet different shooting needs. Therefore, understanding the baby's psychology is very important for good guidance.

Generally speaking, children's psychology has the following characteristics:

1. Imitation psychology: Children can imitate simple sounds and actions before they are one year old. At the age of two, he could imitate complex movements. By the age of three or four, the ability to imitate develops faster. It is a child's nature to like imitation, so we should make use of this psychological characteristic while guiding shooting and demonstrate some actions to induce the baby to imitate according to the needs of shooting.

2. Curiosity: Children are naturally curious. When the baby is five or six months old, he will turn to look for it as soon as he hears the sound, and reach for it as soon as he sees something. By the age of four or five, there will be more curious movements. Seeing toys that you have never seen before, or the strange sounds made by the tour guide on purpose, will arouse your baby's curiosity. According to the child's curiosity, the guide can achieve the purpose of guidance according to the specific shooting requirements.

3. Good game psychology: Children are naturally active and take games as their life. As a guide, you should learn more game methods, such as singing, dancing and playing action games. And build your baby's goodwill towards the guide through games. In addition, you need to prepare corresponding props to assist the game.

4. Like the psychology of success: children like to succeed in doing things, so the interaction between the guide and the baby's game or the guidance of shooting beautiful women should conform to the principle of simplicity first and then complexity, so that the baby can finish shooting in a series of sense of accomplishment, so that the child will feel that shooting is a very happy thing.

5. Eager for praise and encouragement, many shopping guides think that a 100-day-old baby can understand praise and return the happy smile of the shopping guide, so older babies need praise and encouragement more. When the baby completes the guiding action, proper praise and encouragement can quickly eliminate the baby's strangeness to the guide and have a good impression on the guide. In order to get more praise and encouragement, we will do more performances to make the shooting very smooth.

Quality requirements of advance notice

First, the appearance is good. Generally, girls with mild expressions are more popular with children. Don't look too strange, the baby will accept it more easily.

Second, the voice is sweet, which is not suitable for people with loud voice or hoarse voice. Children are sensitive to sounds, and sweet sounds will be more easily favored by babies.

Third, be patient. Some problematic babies may let the guide try his best to get the result. Without patience, it is difficult to do the work well.

Fourth, I am self-motivated and love learning. The position of tour guide seems very simple, but I actually have a lot of knowledge to master and need comprehensive study.

Fifth, the mentality is positive and optimistic. Tour guides should have a positive and healthy attitude and be free from external influences. He should be able to forget other unpleasant things at work. People who are used to bringing emotions to work can't do a good job of guidance.

Children's photography skills

Draw the tiger away from the mountain.

There is a saying called. Baby's face, June day, changes when you say it? . In fact, for some children who are sensitive to reactions, sometimes it is even difficult to capture his or her fleeting best performance. In this case, if there is a helper, can you consider using it? Transfer from the mountain? .

Follow the temptation method

As children grow up, their reactions to things will be different. Generally speaking, children aged 0.5-/kloc-0 mainly rely on sound to attract their attention and make them happy.

Sometimes I meet some particularly timid children, and once they are not properly guided, they will make him sulk or cry with a straight face. In this case, the most common reaction of parents is to hide the camera. Photography is an art and art pays attention to beauty. The true goodness is beauty. As long as it is the expression of true feelings, other expressions of children, such as anger, surprise, curiosity, surprise, injustice and even crying, are of aesthetic value and can enter the camera.

Follow photography

The children are very active and full of energy. A healthy child seldom stays still for a few seconds in his life. However, there are also touching childish interests in sports. How to take a good picture of the children in the activity, so that the image is clear and dynamic? It is a good method to follow the shooting method.

Continuous photography

The so-called continuous photography refers to a series of closely related photos taken through the continuation of shooting time.

Take your time waiting for an exhausted enemy/opponent.

Before shooting, choose the scene, set up the camera, get ready, and then wait patiently for the children to enter the shooting range, often capturing the ideal shooting lens.

Surprise method

In daily shooting, we often encounter such a situation. The child had a good time, but once the camera was aimed at him, his expression immediately became dull and embarrassed. To overcome this shortcoming, we can adopt a surprise method.

Long-distance tracking method

If you have a telephoto lens with a long focal length, you can make full use of the advantages of this equipment to track and shoot children at a long distance.