Tips on Child Photography - Smile Please

Smile Please - Absolutely the best advice I can give you is, from the moment you walk into the house, or meet the children, smile, and keep smiling. I don't mean to the point where your face seizes up, I mean show the children you are of a happy disposition and mean them no harm.

Children of all ages are highly perceptive to emotions and moods. Even if they are your own, especially if they are your own, they need to know that what you are doing is fun!

If you are not particularly good around children, you don't like them or are not at ease around them, then this may not be the career for you, they will grind you down and kill your love of child photography! (Watch the film "Uncle Buck" if you don't believe me!).

Keep your eyes open for what toys they have and what they are "Into". For example, if you see Winnie the Pooh toys scattered around, say something like "Wow, Winnie the Pooh! My son is really into him, he has all the toys. Which is your favourite?" You will be surprised at how this can connect with the child/children.

Make them feel that you aren't just a stuffy, boring grown up, and play with them. They will start to like you and then you are home dry!

Read paragraph 4 of this great site, it will emphasise what I mean!

Smile!

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