Monday, January 16, 2012
Learning To Use My Canon: Week 3
This week I promised myself that I would try my hardest not to pose my kids. I would just follow along with them and capture what they were doing. That's a hard habit to give up. We took our kids fishing, metal detecting and down to the exposed bottoms of the lake.
I love that the lady who my Aunt bought worms from included some gold fish after finding out that this was our first time fishing as a family. The kids were pretty patient but it was windy, cold and nothing seemed to be biting.
Since we haven't had a lot of rain since last summer a lot of the lake bottoms are exposed in our area. It was so much fun to watch the kids reaction when they were set free to explore, discover and play along the banks.
This also brings up a great point...be prepared. Madilyn and I were wearing rubber boots but the boys were just in their regular shoes. I could have gotten a lot more shots if I had made sure they were prepared. Instead I spent the time that I could have been taking pictures shooing them out of the water.
These were the most posed of all my pictures. I really want one of all my kids from every adventure that I can put into a scrapbook that we can look back on throughout the year. The thing that I realized though...it took me 14 photos to get to these. Once I get the kids where I want to get a shot, I have to give them some time to relax so that they are really smiling and not faking it for the photo. Thankfully Hubby has taken to standing right behind me and acting goofy in order to get the kids to laugh at him.
Any tips, critiques or ideas for photo shoots? Got a great pin on Pinterest for photography? I would love to see it!
I love that the lady who my Aunt bought worms from included some gold fish after finding out that this was our first time fishing as a family. The kids were pretty patient but it was windy, cold and nothing seemed to be biting.
Since we haven't had a lot of rain since last summer a lot of the lake bottoms are exposed in our area. It was so much fun to watch the kids reaction when they were set free to explore, discover and play along the banks.
This also brings up a great point...be prepared. Madilyn and I were wearing rubber boots but the boys were just in their regular shoes. I could have gotten a lot more shots if I had made sure they were prepared. Instead I spent the time that I could have been taking pictures shooing them out of the water.
These were the most posed of all my pictures. I really want one of all my kids from every adventure that I can put into a scrapbook that we can look back on throughout the year. The thing that I realized though...it took me 14 photos to get to these. Once I get the kids where I want to get a shot, I have to give them some time to relax so that they are really smiling and not faking it for the photo. Thankfully Hubby has taken to standing right behind me and acting goofy in order to get the kids to laugh at him.
Any tips, critiques or ideas for photo shoots? Got a great pin on Pinterest for photography? I would love to see it!
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sound like such a nice day! & I love those shots of the kids when their just going about their day, but poses are fun too :) ps so jealous you have a Canon Rebel!
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely not one to give tips on photography. I have SO much to learn, and to start, I'll need a new camera!
ReplyDeleteI love how you didn't post them for the other photos. Man, that camera takes great pictures! So glad your hubby is so helpful with those last photos. =)
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