Scott's Family Photo Tips

Pin It Are you sick of hearing about JarvieDigital yet??? WELL TOO BAD! Cause there is still much to be said - and that's a good thing - For you, for me and for Scott :) On his blog, Scott has several different topics that he's covered. I truly believe that even if you aren't a photographer, that you can learn soooo much from Scott's blogs. Whether you take pictures professionally, or for fun, there are several tips that will help you out :) The topic that I think that you can probably relate to the most is taking pictures of a family and/or children.

Scott did a few posts titled "How I Shoot Children" - don't worry he's using a camera, not a gun ha. These posts can help ANYONE! Some of the topics he focuses on are:

Being an observant photographer and another great tip: People don't always have to look at the camera!

Both of these tips are important to remember. I can't tell you how many times I've been focusing on trying to get one picture and when I look over my shoulder, I see and even better one taking place. Some of my favorite moments are with the family, children, couples etc. are not posing for the camera, but are being themselves. Those pictures often end up being people's favorites because it shows the real them.

Taking the right picture for the right personality

I love the picture below. You can tell this little guy has so much personality and this picture captures it perfectly. When you get a person comfortable, their real personality shows - and THAT'S that you want to portray in your pictures.

Listening to peoples ideas

Listen and going with others' ideas - like this little kid wanting to show off a stick.While a person's idea may not be perfect, you can run with it and make it a great concept. Never shut down someones idea - some of my favorite shots that I have taken were actually based off of my clients ideas. If you don't like the original idea....take the shot and then change it up a bit. Try different versions of the concept.

Picking your battles

Here he tried to get them to hug....and the girls were sitting a bit too far apart to to a normal hug and thus he ended up with this shot - which I think is soooo cute! This is often hard as a parent when you are paying for a photographer and your kids aren't cooperating, BUT if you remember one of the precious tips was that the subjects don't always have to look at the camera for a picture to be great. I took pictures of an extremely camera shy boy and I ended up getting some great pictures of him just running and jumping around. They showed off his personality and I was able to capture some great smiles.

Since most of you have a little family of your own, I thought you would most enjoy reading his posts about family pictures (which include the How I Shoot Children posts that I just talked about). Enjoy!



Why Should You Add JarvieDigital to Your Bloglist?

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Why should you add Scott's blog to your blog list?  Well other than the obvious reason - helping me win the JAG competition, the other reason and perhaps the better one is because he shares some great tips about photography and posts some great pictures.  I find many of his posts helpful to my photography.  Even if you are not a photographer, which I'm guessing is most of you, do you or will you ever want to take pictures of your family, kids, etc?  I'm going to go ahead and you all answered yes.....and if you didn't....Well maybe someday you will be a client to a photographer and he has tips for you too :)  Here's the link to the client tip blogs: http://jarviestudios.com/blog/category/info/tips-for-clients/

Some of the great concepts of JarvieDigital pictures is how to get good pictures that are unique and showcase the people's emotions in the pictures. 

I honestly think that there is at LEAST one of the 500 blog posts he has done that will help you in the future, whether it's your own photography or others, he has information on his blog for everyone!  PLUS you get to look at some of the amazing pictures he takes - win, win!

If you are interested in putting his blog on your bloglist, PLEASE check out my GIVEAWAY.  I mean if you're already going to be doing it, you might as well have a chance to win a prize right???? 

First Birthday Photo Shoot

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My daughter turned 1 a couple weeks ago.  I did a photo shoot of her in my little studio with her own cake.  I found the hat for 50 cents at Babies R Us and am so glad I did!  Surprisingly she didn't really eat too much of the cake, she was distracted by all the stickiness on her hands.  She did enjoy destroying the cake though.

 

 

Photo Editing

Pin It I saw a blog post on The Creative Crate where she showed a picture before and after her editing.  She wanted to see our versions.  So here is my version of her image.

Before:

 After

I used Lightroom for my editing.  I love Lightroom!  I use it for pretty much all of my editing and sometimes use Photoshop for a few touch ups.  Lightroom is a lifesaver when I'm editing hundreds of pictures taken at weddings.  For this image I cropped, adjusted the exposure, contrast, hue/saturation, added a bit of a vignette and lightened her eyes a bit.   If you want to see my photography website you can go here: http://madelynwayment.smugmug.com/