Photographing Children

I spent the evening with my photography friends in the presence of children models. We all congregated at Monument valley park in the gardens along with a guest photographer from New Jersey. Fabulous time! Fabulous shots! Fabulous kids!The one thing I can say for sure as a children's photographer . . . you must go with the flow and be ready to shoot at any time. The younger the child, the less attention span he/she has. The older ones can be molded into any modeling pose, for the most part. They love to be photographed.

The evening was winding down and I decided that the sun, which had been my light source, was rapidly depleting. So what did I do? You guessed it...bump up my ISO to let more light in and open up my aperture a bit wider. You have to be careful with the ISO as to not bump up too high in case you were asked to enlarge one of these fabulous portraits. It would produce much more grain than one that was shot at a lower ISO.

Have fun photographing children, I sure do!