Children's photo shooting skills, how to shoot good children's photos?

In this section, let's look at children's shooting skills. At present, because of the controversy over the age range of children, here we define it as 4- 12 years old. But taking pictures of children is much more difficult than taking pictures of adults, because children are naive and lively, will not listen to your instructions, and it is difficult to cooperate with your shooting. Therefore, how to give full play to the advantages of manual equipment and restore children's innocent and beautiful moments requires us to master some children's shooting skills.

1, mostly backhand and prone.

In our daily life, the photos of children we see are basically taken from the perspective of head-up, and children often take the posture of standing or squatting, which is the most common way of composition. But such photos are dull, lack of change, and look dull and unattractive.

In order to make the photos more visually impactful and attractive, we can take a prone shot or a prone shot. Bow shot means standing a little higher and shooting from top to bottom, while bow shot means that we can squat or even shoot on our stomach. Through these changes in shooting angles, you will find the photos very interesting.

(It's more innovative to take pictures from above)

Top-down photos.

(Take a photo from the back)

For photos taken from bottom to top, we should pay attention to the perspective deformation phenomenon when shooting from top to bottom, so we should grasp the scale.

2. The side may look better than the front.

When taking pictures of children, many people habitually take a positive picture of their children, all of which are "positive faces". There is nothing wrong with the positive portrait, but it feels too ordinary and unattractive. So when we shoot, we can shoot from the side, as shown below. This is a profile portrait, and it was taken from above, which broke through the usual shooting perspective and gave a deep impression.

(The profile portrait is more impactful)

In fact, every photo we take for a child records his or her growth, and the daily life of a child should be multidimensional. So when taking pictures, you can take pictures from the front, the side, the big face and even the back, and you don't have to just take pictures from the front. Think about how touching Zhu Ziqing's prose "The Back" is, and the photography of video art can also be taken like this.

3. Change the shooting distance and try to take close-up photos.

Many parents take pictures of their children at the same distance, most of which are full-length portraits and busts. Such photos lack a sense of distance and look monotonous. In fact, we can shoot according to the close shot (1 meter), the middle shot (2-3 meters) and the distant shot (more than 3 meters).

Close-up, close-up and mid-term perspectives are the most abundant, just like a movie needs more scene changes to make life more real. It is best to choose a medium telephoto lens for close-range shooting to avoid deformation caused by a wide-angle lens. Of course, there are also many parents who deliberately take photos of this stretching deformation with wide-angle lenses.

(prospective portrait)

(Mid shot portrait)

(close-up portrait)

(close-up photo)

4, all kinds of joys and sorrows.

Smiling can give people a happy mood. Many parents always ask our children to "smile" and "smile" when shooting. After a long time, you will find that all the photos taken for children are smiling, and maybe you will find that many smiles are somewhat helpless or blunt.

In fact, for children, their expressions are very rich. We take photos to record his growth process, and also record his joys and sorrows. This is a complete and rich life. Therefore, we can shoot laughing, bitter and angry, or we can shoot silent, stunned and funny. Years later, after seeing these photos, you may think of an unforgettable past or a story.

(The picture of the child crying records the scene of the child crying)

A picture of a child in a daze is more attractive than a picture of a smile. You may ask this question, "What's wrong with this child?" )

5. Other skills of photographing children.

Children always like to play games, and these scenes are also the material we shoot. We also want to take pictures of school activities. Of course, in addition to normal shooting, you can also use some props, such as girls' hats, hairpins, boys' sunglasses, football and basketball, which can all be used to set off the characters.