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Even though I don’t happen to have any of my own, I absolutely love taking pictures of kids. Unfortunately, it sometimes just doesn’t work out for me.
You see – I like the really old portraits from many (many!) years ago. The ones like these that I got in an antique photo album from my parents. The boys all cute and pressed. They're so young, but you can almost imagine the adults they’ll grow up to be. It makes we wish I actually knew who they were so I could see how their lives turned out….but that’s a story for another day, right?
But the children I’m working are uber-playful and have these crazy senses of humor. they just can't be contained (or at least not for any stretch of time). Posing them is nearly impossible, because when I ask them to smile this is what I get
(Thank you Cody and Emily!) I know these are the pictures really showing their personalities which I wouldn’t change for anything, despite this rant. It just makes me wonder how they used to get those kids to sit so still back then. Seriously! Were they really children or just tiny pod people?? Were there threats of violence involved? Drugging? Telling them the camera would steal their souls if they so much as blinked? This is what I want to know – how did they take the staged pictures like that, especially with longer exposure times? How?!?!
Until this mystery is solved I’m going to have to content myself with the candids I snap here and there that don’t have the scary pulled faces. Then maybe their parents can see how cute these kids can be when they want (or at least when they don’t see me lurking with my camera!) Here's some pics of Cody and Emily that I think came out a little nicer and one of my fav's of SusanJo's daughter Sammi
You see – I like the really old portraits from many (many!) years ago. The ones like these that I got in an antique photo album from my parents. The boys all cute and pressed. They're so young, but you can almost imagine the adults they’ll grow up to be. It makes we wish I actually knew who they were so I could see how their lives turned out….but that’s a story for another day, right?
But the children I’m working are uber-playful and have these crazy senses of humor. they just can't be contained (or at least not for any stretch of time). Posing them is nearly impossible, because when I ask them to smile this is what I get
(Thank you Cody and Emily!) I know these are the pictures really showing their personalities which I wouldn’t change for anything, despite this rant. It just makes me wonder how they used to get those kids to sit so still back then. Seriously! Were they really children or just tiny pod people?? Were there threats of violence involved? Drugging? Telling them the camera would steal their souls if they so much as blinked? This is what I want to know – how did they take the staged pictures like that, especially with longer exposure times? How?!?!
Until this mystery is solved I’m going to have to content myself with the candids I snap here and there that don’t have the scary pulled faces. Then maybe their parents can see how cute these kids can be when they want (or at least when they don’t see me lurking with my camera!) Here's some pics of Cody and Emily that I think came out a little nicer and one of my fav's of SusanJo's daughter Sammi
