{"id":6399,"date":"2011-08-08T16:43:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=6399"},"modified":"2011-08-12T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T15:03:50","slug":"on-the-go-photo-shoot-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/on-the-go-photo-shoot-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Go {photo shoot tips}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">michelle shefveland. <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/sifrpapak.html\">simply friendship<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/clcl15.html\">click.masks 15<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<p>Photographing babes is one of my most happy places! These are from a recent shoot of a little guy just learning to crawl. I wanted to capture the excitement of this momentous occasion, while also giving the sensation of movement. Note&#8230;click on images to enlarge.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_4_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_5_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_6_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_7_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_8_placeholder\n<p>ngg_shortcode_9_placeholder<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">michelle shefveland. <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/sifrpapak.html\">simply friendship<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A few tips when photographing little ones on the go:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shoot from all different angles, capturing their different positions<\/li>\n<li>If using natural light as I did, set your ISO high enough to get crisp focus with a moving subject (I often shoot AV mode almost wide open aiming for a shutter speed of at least 1\/80 to have good focus)<\/li>\n<li>Have their little legs moving out of the frame to show they are scooting away!<\/li>\n<li>Shoot some landscape and some portrait<\/li>\n<li>Move around and get some wide angle shots and some close-ups<\/li>\n<li>Shoot by a window and try to have babe&#8217;s eyes facing window to capture best catchlights<\/li>\n<li><strong>OR<\/strong> have someone hold a reflector bouncing <strong>soft<\/strong> natural light into their eyes (my favorite natural light tool!)<\/li>\n<li>Have someone other than you talking to them to get them to look up and smile<\/li>\n<li>Share the progression of images in a photo story as I did above or in a digital layout<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t need an expensive lens or even DSLR to shoot gorgeous  portraits&#8230;just awesome light, good composition, and knowledge of your  camera and what is does best (and see below for how to enhance bokeh\/depth of field with our Photo Art Blends 4)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FYI&#8230;to enhance softness, creamy tones, and luminosity these images were blended with our bokeh\/textured <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/clcl11.html\">Photo Art Blends 4<\/a>, most set at Overlay blend mode masking out the little guy. Tutorial included with each set of Photo Art Blends.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_10_placeholder\n<p>Happy shooting! Michelle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>michelle shefveland. simply friendship, click.masks 15 Photographing babes is one of my most happy places! These are from a recent shoot of a little guy just learning to crawl. I wanted to capture the excitement of this momentous occasion, while also giving the sensation of movement. Note&#8230;click on images to enlarge. michelle shefveland. simply friendship A few tips when photographing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6410,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions\/6410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}