5 tips on how to make good family photos
A Photo / / December 20, 2019
A few years ago, if you wanted to make a good family photos, you would have to hire a professional photographer. Many are doing it now. But there are those who prefer to buy your own DSLR camera and try to take photos of yourself. Often, those who began to study photography and makes the first family photos, are disappointed with the results.
We have prepared for you 5 tips that will help a good start in this difficult matter.
1. Go down to the level of growth of your children
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Usually we see the kids at the top. We used to see the top of the baby and the moment when he looks at us with tears or smile. It turns out that when we make a picture from this angle, we get very familiar result. The brain seems to be saying: "I've seen it many times."
If you want to make pictures that really attract attention, you will go down lower, the level of growth of your children. If at the time of the photos you do not crawl on the ground, then most likely, you are too high for a good photo. If you want to make your photos more interesting, then find a way to take pictures of your children upwards.
2. Work with the diaphragm
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Aperture controls the depth of field. A depth of field has a huge impact on how the story looks, which tells the picture. By adjusting the depth of field, you focus the audience's attention on a particular point in 3-dimensional space and blurring the rest of the details. In fact you say, this place is more important than the rest! Focus your attention on it. This is the highlight of this photo.
Use the aperture to highlight the most important parts of the photo, blurring all the other parts. To learn how to make the focus may take some time, especially if you photograph more than one person.
You may find that the scope of a man who really wanted to highlight. This means that the depth of field was too small, decrease the aperture opening and try again.
Since you are just learning to focus on objects with a small depth of field, then immediately after you have taken the first picture, look at the result. Take a good look at the faces of all the people in the photo, it increased by 100%. Make sure that everything is fine at once, rather than after you get home and realize that spoiled all the pictures.
3. Catch history
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Good photo - it's not just a pretty picture. Good photo tells a story!
Once you master the basics of photography and a little bit to make friends with your camera, you feel quite comfortable working with the exposition, aperture, shutter speed and ISO level, you can use the camera more intuitive and less time on the regulation of certain parameters. At this stage, you will be free from the constant thoughts about the settings and other technical aspects and focus on the emotions and the story you want to tell.
When you are going to take a picture, do not think about it to be pretty or impressive. Instead, think about what kind of story you want to tell. If instead of the camera you were holding a piece of paper and a pencil, then what would you write about your children at this very moment? Camera - this is not for photographing device, and history-recording device. Virtually any time in front of you and around you interesting stories unfold. Stop for a moment and hear them.
4. Make contact
If your subject for photography does not feel that you are currently open to it, most likely will not want to tell his story.
Many photos where people look nervous or squeezed, the problem is not people, and the photographer, whose mood and pass an object for photography. All that you feel at the time of photographing is likely to feel the people a picture that you do. And it will be seen in the photograph. The ability to control their emotions and internal mental processes - a real art. And the best "family" photographers - are those who have spent years honing this skill.
To make a good family photos, you do not need to take the path of enlightenment, self-knowledge, meditation and there are grasshoppers on a mountain in Tibet. But you can, for example, keep in mind that most people do not like to have their pictures just for photography. People love to share their hobbies and interests.
Before you take a camera, talk to your children about their toys, friends and hobbies. You set the contact, relax and create a good context for the photo shoot session.
5. Pay attention to the background
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Many people do not realize that the photos there are two elements: the foreground and background. Fore everyone understands and is perceived as the place where you would normally place a child, a husband or a wife, or the whole family.
The background is usually neglected. And in vain, because it plays an important role in creating the composition. Symmetrical and blurred (see. paragraph 2 of the diaphragm) background, on which there are no random people and "roving" objects, is a classic, which is used in the majority of good family photos. When you take a picture, pay attention to the natural and man-made objects that create a background for photos. It can be doorways, bridges, houses, trees and mountains.