Photographing Children With Animals

January 27, 2012

Many children, even young ones,  enjoy the experience of being with an animal.  If you are the parent or the grandparent of these children, you won’t want to miss the opportunity to get some very special pictures of the little ones you love so dearly with some animals.  However, photographing children with animals requires a sense of awareness of your surroundings.

If you go to the zoo, the circus, a friend’s home who owns a pet, or even to a farm, take your best camera and an external flash with you to create some great pictures of your child with animals.  The first thing to be aware of,  even before taking the pictures, is to watch both the child and the animal to make sure that they are compatible with each other.  Some animals just do not want to be bothered by anyone, and for the child to pursue interacting with that animal might be dangerous.  Then there is the issue that the child must treat the animal properly by being patient, and not teasing the animal.  Teasing animals can also result in a very dangerous situation, and even injury to your child.  I know this firsthand, because I teased our German shepherd “Nip” when I was a young child, and he came over and bit me in the head! Read more

Photographing A Child At A Birthday Party

January 20, 2012

Photographing a child at a birthday party is something parents and grandparents should plan ahead to do.  Birthday parties for young children are all the rage right now in our culture. Those of us from a previous generation of young children would usually let a young child sneak a bit of frosting from their birthday cake and they were allowed to enjoy a piece of cake in whatever manner they pleased, but today a young child is allowed to destroy the whole cake! Especially on the first birthday.

As a parent or a grandparent you won’t want to miss getting at least a few very special pictures of your child at a birthday party. Even though the conditions are not usually very ideal for photography,  please don’t leave your best camera home.  You will need some of the flexibility that it provides!

Our little granddaughter just turned two, and her mother gave her a party inviting 32 people to their little house. Well, the little girl was very fortunate in that all the guests were not able to make it. As it turned out, just the right number came including a few very special adults, and just two more children. One child for every year of her age right now! Read more

Capturing Photos Of Your Children Requires A Sense Of Urgency

January 10, 2012

My husband and I were celebrating our wedding anniversary in the Blue Ridge mountains of Ashville, North Carolina at the Biltmore Estate and were staying right on the grounds at the beautiful Biltmore Inn. The lobby of this beautiful hotel was all decorated for Christmas complete with a large tree and attractive toys around it, all from a bye gone era. In the evening I noticed one little boy, in his pajamas who was in the antique toy car playing. Later in the evening he was still on that car and obviously enjoying himself immensely. In the morning, again, I was surprised to find him still in his pajamas and playing on that antique car once again. What a great portrait opportunity, I thought to myself. Parents, in the business of life, don’t often get the chance to have those wonderful memories of their children, and all in a beautiful setting (created by someone else by the way) perfect for a very special portrait, and these parents and grandparents, if they were there, missed it!

After enjoying breakfast in the hotel dining room, my husband and I were strolling around the gorgeous hotel and I was taking pictures with my new treasure, now less than a year old, my Canon 5D Mark II, which is now my very, very favorite camera. I had to sell some unused cameras and lenses to be able to buy it, (can you guess that I have wanted it for a very long time) but now, I have it, and I needed to make it work for me as easily as the Canon D60 which I absolutely loved to use, and was now taking beautiful pictures for another family. Then I noticed some very smart parents and grandmother of a young 3 year old playing on one of the toys under the Christmas tree. They were interacting with him and taking some wonderful pictures and memories for their family. So, instinctively, I could not help myself. I had to take a picture! Why? Mostly, because I was so very proud of them!! Read more

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