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Photography: ‘Jumping Shots’ of Kids

9 August 20104 Comments

I’ve been into snapping quite a lot of  kids’ jumping shots for sometime now.

It’s FUN!

And, I love the spontaneous expressions captured!

Btw.

As kids LOVE to jump around, such jumping shots would very most likely work well when taking photos of a group of kids too! (We all know how taking photos of a few little kids together is not easy, ie. One would walk away, the other would run off in a different direction, etc)

So here’s my usual attempt:

– Get them to line up and squat down (I tell them to get ready to do a big jump together)

– While they are all squatting down and all ‘ready to jump’, I’d quickly take a shot of them too, hehe.

– Enthusiastically go, ‘ONE … TWO … THREE, JUMPPPPPP!!!’ and take the shot!

Kids LOVE it and they’d usually be giggling away and doing all sorts of silly poses!

Three extra tips from me:

– Make sure you have the right setting ready to capture the ‘up in the air’ actions!

[I set my Canon Powershot S90 to ‘low-light’ setting, and it works well for the above shot, taken indoors at Marina Square]

– Get the kids to do a few jumps (one jump per shot) in a spacious area (the less crowd the better)

– Squat down as well, and shoot from a low angle (allowing the kids to look straight towards the camera instead of them looking up towards us who’re standing up)

The reality is, the more kids the harder it’ll be to get a shot of them all up in the air at the SAME time.

But hey, it’ll sure be fun!

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