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Halloween - the time of spooks and goblins. It is s favorite holiday for many and here are a few tips to help you with your family photos that night. Sorry not to have a lot of photos to illustrate this, but hopefully these tips will help you with your fun photos for "Trick or Treat."
1. Tell a story. Get them dressing, putting on makeup. Keep your camera handy to record whatever happens.
2. Avoid flash reflections. Keep children away from reflective surfaces, like glass and shiny wood. Place them in a corner rather than in front of something that reflects your flash.
3. Move in close, use your zoom, check on the closest focusing distance, and don't get closer than that. Use the macro mode on your camera to get in close to photograph details...Faces, eyes, little details.
4. Stay within your flash range. If you don't your photos will appear dark. Check your screen on the back of the camera. If the image is dark, move closer so flash will cover subject.
5. Add action. Get your ch
ild to play the part. Have him act like a soldier, or be a clown; have her dance like a ballerina.
6. Capture the mood. Use light from pumpkin to light the scene,or your child's face. Turn off flash and use tripod or hold camera very steady and try a few shots.
7. Use night mode on camera. Use gentle pressure to release the shutter to prevent camera movement and blurry photos. Night mode adjusts for low light situations and allows more of the scene to show. The background will not be as dark.
8. Start early before it gets really dark and try using natural light, no flash. Best photos are done in late afternoon or early evening. Use fill flash if the child does not show up.
9. Photograph your jack-o-lanterns so they look like jack-o-lanterns. Do not use flash. Carve bigger openings so more light will show. Hold camera real steady, try photographing at dusk rather than later in the evening. Add porch lights, or room lights. You can prevent blur by using a tripod, if you have one. Do several different photos to get one good one.
We hope these tips help you get some outstanding photographs on "Trick or Treat" Night.
Our fourth tip is to photograph inside near a window. If you place your child on the floor near the window you get a nice, soft directional light. This type of light is flattering to young and old alike. Be sure to get down on their level if you have them on the floor. You can direct them to look out the window or have them look at you. Here you can see the light coming from the left giving a nice light on the child's face.
Our third tip is to either photograph in the shade or on a cloudy day. In shade you have what we call diffuse light and it is a gentler light. Place your child under a tree, in the shade of the house,or under a canopy. You get the same results on a cloudy day. There are no shadows, no bright sun. Either way you have a better result.
The second tip for photographing children and families is to use backlight. This is achieved with the sun behind or off to the side.
This will keep your subjects from squinting and make it easy for them to keep their eyes open. It will create a halo effect on their hair where the sun hits it. It is a really nice effect.
The next few posts will be concentrating on how to best photograph your children and families. Today we will look at time of day. If you are going to work outdoors, the best time of day is early in the morning or late in the day. This is because the sun is low in the sky and the light has a softer, less harsh quality. Avoid having the sun fall directly on the faces as this will cause squinting and will cause harsh shadows under the eyes and nose. Plus at this time the light is warmer and gives a more pleasing effect.
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ild to play the part. Have him act like a soldier, or be a clown; have her dance like a ballerina.
