I am perhaps, asked more often, "how do I get a good candid of my child"?
It's simple really. Watch them. Study them. Wait. Take as many shots as you need. The beautiful thing about photographing children is that they are always natural. Always expressive, and usually oblivious in their play to realize you are waiting for the optimal moment to take their picture.
So, as they go about their activity, you sit back and watch them. You study their behavior and their facial expressions at specific moments. Then you wait, wait for the moment and seize it.
The optimal way to capture children is in their own natural environment, in their own world and as naturally as possible. Or ...take 'em to Walmart for a horrifically posed, statute portrait for the great price of $6.95 for oodles of cliched /generic pictures. But wouldn't you rather want your children remembered as themselves, in all their little glory?
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