emotion.pictures | j.h.andersen photography - Stock & Conceptual Photography
emotion.pictures | j.h.andersen photography - Stock & Conceptual Photography
emotion.pictures | j.h.andersen photography - Stock & Conceptual Photography
emotion.pictures | j.h.andersen photography - Stock & Conceptual Photography
emotion.pictures | j.h.andersen photography - Stock & Conceptual Photography
Photo By: Jan H. Andersen

Jan’s Child Portraiture Advice #3: Get down on the knees

No, not the child. You! In most cases you want the camera to be at the same level as, or just a little above, the eyes of the child. In addition to making the expression more natural it’s also more relaxing for the child, if that stranger of a photographer is not staring down from [...]

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Photo By: Jan H. Andersen

Jan’s Child Portraiture Advice #2: Focus on the eyes

This advice ought to be basic knowledge, but every day I notice portraits that are out of focus. When you look at a portrait, the first thing you notice is the eyes. If the eyes are out of focus, the entire photo look out of focus. If the child don’t look straight at you with [...]

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Photo By: Jan H. Andersen

Jan’s Child Portraiture Advice #1: Time & Patience

Your most important tool, when making portraits of children, and probably anyone else, is also one of the tools not available in stores. Fortunately it’s free, but not necessarily easy to aquire. It’s “patience”. I know far too many photographers that think that they can shoot 20 portraits an hour. That’s wrong. Very wrong. For [...]

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Advice #18: Go to their natural environment

Portrait photography is of course not only about studio photos. You kan make just as good – and often even better – photos, if you take your camera outside or go to the home, where the children live. The child is more relaxed in it’s own home and you will be able to catch more [...]

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Advice #17: Use props to relax the child

I often use props when making portraits of kids. It serves two different purposes. First of all it makes it possible to capture natural looking expressions full of curiosity, smiles and laughter that will end up as much more interesting and funny portraits than the traditional “still life” portrait . Second, it will make the [...]

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Advice #16: Space matters

There are so many things to say about composition. One thing that I like to use is what’s usually called “negative space”. This can be achieved by many different approaches, but the simplest way to explain it is when your subject take up a relatively small part of the portrait and is looking either into [...]

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