Photography: ‘Jumping Shots’ of Kids
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!
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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)
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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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chubbybots:
hehe … ya, they were all full of energy! Good thing that the shops were also closing at the time coz they were not all that quiet too 😀
andy:
thanks … 😀 and yes, outdoors during the day will be a much much better choice hehe …
Wow can feel the energy off that shot! Seeing kids playing around can stir the inner child in me haha 🙂
great shot, Leonny.
For compacts, higher success rate outdoors hehe 🙂
Very difficult for non s90 users to catch the right moment :p