Exercise for photographing children “Monkeys Jumping on the Bed”!
1. The next time you see your kids playing well together break out the camera! 🙂
2. If you can, steer their play to a room with a lot of light so you don’t have to use your flash. (it gets tricky here b/c trying to do this could totally make you lose the moment).
3. If you don’t want to wait for “the moment”, do what Brian and I do ALL the time with our kids and clients–set up the shot. Pick a good time of day when the natural sunlight is pouring in to your favorite bedroom and let the kids jump on the bed (could I be sued for suggesting this if one of your kids got hurt? keep a close eye on them while they jump and shoot away! :).
4. Try the recipe for the camera settings I’ve got above. If you don’t need that much light and your images are coming out overexposed, bring the ISO down to 400. If you still have overexposed images, speed up your shutter speed until the exposure is right.
These are great – I love how you captured their playfulness. I’m getting more and more excited as the days near the Feb workshop! 🙂
Your Tips for Moms are so great! I have really been enjoying them and looking forward to new ones every week. –this one speaks especially to me as it just brings together the whole reason why I got into photography to begin with, -to treasure those moments -most of which are impromptu- and capture the feeling in a picture. sometimes I have to let go of the need for perfection, do the best I can for the moment and then enjoy it with the kids, then the memory is complete and I don’t feel like only the spectator. Thank you for this!
~amanda
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