Vacation Close-Ups
As I mentioned before, my oldest is great at being photographed. He looks at the camera, he smiles real looking smiles (most of the time). He's been like that since he was a baby. The other two do not usually like being photographed, they do not like to look at the camera, they like to run out of the picture frame before I take a picture in order to see the image on the magical side of the digital camera. They have both been like that since they were babies.
So I take what I can get. And I take a lot of pictures. Especially on vacation. And I hope for the best.
At a place like LegoLand or the beach, it's easy to fall into the trap of taking lots of far-away pictures. It's always more interesting to capture scenery with your loved ones, otherwise, you're better off buying postcards, but in the effort to capture the grandness of the ocean or the expance of the sand or the size of a Lego Empire State building it's easy to lose faces and expressions and freckles.
I made it a point to try to capture a few close-ups. I still wish I could get more facing-front close ups, but for now I have to sneak the camera a far forward as possible and hope they are distracted.
How do you balance your photography between close-ups, scenery, far-away shots, etc? I haven't even mentioned photos that are untraditional like cute baby feet or bowling shoes or from-the-back shots of little ones walking hand in hand.
I want more of them all!
So I take what I can get. And I take a lot of pictures. Especially on vacation. And I hope for the best.
At a place like LegoLand or the beach, it's easy to fall into the trap of taking lots of far-away pictures. It's always more interesting to capture scenery with your loved ones, otherwise, you're better off buying postcards, but in the effort to capture the grandness of the ocean or the expance of the sand or the size of a Lego Empire State building it's easy to lose faces and expressions and freckles.
I made it a point to try to capture a few close-ups. I still wish I could get more facing-front close ups, but for now I have to sneak the camera a far forward as possible and hope they are distracted.
How do you balance your photography between close-ups, scenery, far-away shots, etc? I haven't even mentioned photos that are untraditional like cute baby feet or bowling shoes or from-the-back shots of little ones walking hand in hand.
I want more of them all!
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