Taking Photos of Children (Tips)

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For me i will let them play or do anything and set your camera ready to capture that precious momments of your kid/ children. Hope this help, good luck.

I have a second camera that I let my granddaughter use, under my supeervision, and she likes taking pictures. She took the picture of me for mylot. I also print pictures of her doing things and let her take them to show her friends. I print them on Bright White paper, much cheeper than Photo Paper. She also gets to give pictures to her friends. This way she see an advantage to have her picture taken.

i like to take pictures of my son and my neices when they are actually doning something, and they least expect it, i think the get to be the best pictures.

Make up funny things for him to say so that he is smilling or laughing and make funny faces at him. i find though with kids their natural reactions in pictures are the most priceless. like i have this one picure of my step-son he was playin in his room and his dad had taken his shirt off and laid down, he fell asleep, and my step-son when i went in to check why it was so quiet had put the shirt on himself and was trying to button it, IT WAS HUGE ON HIM and so funny. so i snuck back out grabbed the camera and shouted BOO at the same time i snapped the picture. LOL PRICELESS.

I too love taking pictures of kids. I agree with the others that it's great to take their pictures while they are not paying attention. But if you want to take their pictures by asking them to pose, you should try to ask them as if you were playing with them so that they wouldn't get bored. If you're going to take their picture while they are not paying attention. Don't forget to set your camera settings. In my camera (Pentax) there is a setting called "Kids mode". This setting is for taking pictures of moving subjects. If your nephew will pose for you. Set the camera settings to portrait mode. I think all cameras have this kind of setting.

I love to take pictures of kids. I love the random shots. Those precious moments when your camera is laying nearby while the kids are just being themselves.

The key with kids is to not get them posing. I like to put the camera down for a while, get them comfortable with me and the surroundings, then ease the camera back into my hands so I can start snapping when they are completely relaxed and having fun. Those always turn out best. If you have a tripod and remote release, that works well too.

I like to take pictures of kids (or anyone) when their not paying attention to you. Then you catch them in their element. I always thought the pictures are cuter too:)