I was asked a familiar questions yesterday “What advice can you give parents who want to take better pictures of their kids?”. To be honest, there are infinite number of techniques and approaches to taking “better” pictures both technically and conceptually.
One of the trends I’ve noticed has to do with a rapidly growing number of DSLR armature photographers - most of these photographers (and I use the term loosely here) heavily rely on PhD technique (Push here, Dummy). Not to say that cameras these days don’t do a good job focusing, however at a close distance, some lenses produce shallow depth of field, so shallow in fact that a camera focuses on the subjects nose making the eyes appear out of focus.
Getting back to the basic of what makes a “people picture” good – for one, the viewer has to be able to connect with the subject. Connecting with a portrait of a fuzzy-eyed baby is very difficult if not impossible (loving parents aside).
The morale of the story is that on close up shots with shallow depth of field, take control of the focal points and aim for the eyes.
Ok Shot
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Let me know if my blabbering is useful to any of you … otherwise, I’ll just stop with my uninvited advices.
S.
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