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March 3, 2010
Today’s fancy camera tip: How to take portraits of your own two children together… Yeah, right. I wish that I could offer that advice!
The first one is my favorite… Me: “James Henry, will you please sit by your brother so that I can take your picture.”
JH: ”Eli, take picture with James.” You can see James (the red train) by Eli’s foot- and then Eli is looking at me as if to say- “Do you really think this is going to happen?” The last grouping is a lil sampler to show the process. James Henry started way out in the field and eventually made his way back. Ahhhh, at least E stays in one spot.
I love a little photo journalism, and I love, love images of my boys playing together. I try to be nonchalant about it without my flash, so in the first three I turned up the ISO to 1600. I had a pretty big aperture (f 2.8) and very slow shutter speed (1/50 and 1/25 in another). I am surprised that there is not more motion blur. I usually try not to go under 1/100 sec, especially for children. Anyway, I was laying on the ground and therefore steadied my camera a bit that way. I have a problem with camera shake so I usually try to lean on something for support. The last image of Eli standing, woah! Is that my baby? pulling up?! I did use my flash for that one. Oh, and I was using my wide angle 16-35 mm lens, hoping to show more of the room.
Gotta go lower a crib mattress with all of this new pulling up going on… That Eli will be running away from my camera before I know it!
Lisa M Anderson: Adorable...I love sitting on the floor as the kids play and try to catch pics of them playing too. But with the 20 month old she's catching on, so as soon as she sees the camera she wants to be behind the camara to see the pictures I've taken (remember when we were kids and we had to actually wait for them to be developed - ha ha). Problem is that she doesn't realize that I need her to actually stick in FRONT of the camera for me to capture pictures for her to view! JOY!!!!
Bobbie Brown: LOVE these!!! That B&W is awesome...
Alicia Damron: These are beautiful, you have such handsome boys! You did a great job with the flash in that last one, it's not obvious, did you use a diffuser, or bounce it, or what?
elizabeth: the first one is my fave. such adorable babies
Krystal: Your babes are BEAUTIFUL! And I completely understand the fun in capturing a moment with more than 1 child in the picture! I have 3, but I'm also blessed that 2 of them are old enough to sit still and listen while I chase the 2 yr old around! HA! Thanks for your comment on my blog. I have over my sink right now "God is Good All the Time!" I guess I really have to decide which room it's going in before I can really think about what to write on it! Have a great weekend!