A Bit of Knowledge: Children's Photography

Its been such a long time since I posted Matthew's picture on my blog, except the one of him on the digital postcard, but not much of his face. By the way, thanks everyone for the comments on the hat. Well as you can see, Matthew is a big boy now. Will turn 18 months on November 7th. He starting to talk a lot, words like mom, dad, yes, no, ball, moon, bubble, google, more, no more, onion, apple, (ba)nana are some of them, and he also knows almost 80 % letters of the alphabet. We have a feeling that he may start to read early, as where ever we go and he sees words on the wall or banners in the store, he tries to name them all. It all started with the towel in our washroom when we started putty training. The towel had FLORIDA on it, and once we decided to spell out for him - that was the beginning.

Taking photos of children is so much fun, yet it can be frustrating. Thus we always seek for this prefect photo. I tell you it isn't easy especially when mom is taking photos. Next thing they holding on to your leg and trying take camera away from you - a case with Matthew. However, when they play and are preoccupied it is the best time to take on the photo shoot. And in some case other children as just born to pose.

I only have experience may be with four children in my life, including Matthew and my portfolio of over 10, 000 photos of him or more. However, there are two categories of photos. One set are just photos, sometimes not artistic at all, but intended for memories of what Matthew did and played with, how he climbed the stairs [can go all the way now], and more. The second category, I usually try to create an environment for him so I can take some more artistic one. However, my favorite one are when he actually does not pay attention to the camera, more of the action photos. With time children grow into taking photos, and they actually start to pose, and believe or not last in the few photo shoots of Matthew I got him actually smiling to the camera.

Only once I took Matthew to the photo studio for the photo shoot, and that was it. Never really been crazy about it, especially when I have the equipment, and the photos are much more meaningful.
'Stay a child while you can be a child' by Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods