Photographing children: Shoot at eye level

Thursday 10 June 2021, 20:10 by Elja Trum | 3,269 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

The most important tip when photographing children is to shoot at the child's eye level. As an adult, you are quickly twice the size of a child.

Nina - f/8, 1/160s, 100 ISO @ 57mm
If you don't bend your knees to get to the same level, you end up with photos where you are looking down at a child. You mainly photograph their hair and always get a distorted view.

By sitting at the same height as the child, you capture their world. At the same height, you can also make much better contact with the child. If you expect to be busy for a long time, using knee pads is recommended.

As always, you can also get some really nice photos by breaking the rule now and then.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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