Want a fun photo exercise idea for the weekend? The gold and red leaves won’t be here much longer. When the sun breaks this weekend, grab your camera, make a pile of leaves and let the kids go for it!
I love to get kids involved with photo shoots. I had these two build me the BIGGEST pile of leaves. I told them to grab two handfuls and on the count of 3, throw the leaves in the air as high as they can. But kids will do exactly what you tell them and sometimes nothing more or less. So that just means they need even more photocoaching. I told these two to keep their arms stretched high to the sky and smile as the leaves fall down all around them (and I demonstrated what I meant with exaggeration). We practiced a couple times (I shot each run through–just in case). When the three of us knew we were all on the same page, we yelled our countdown “ONE, TWO, THREE! THROW THE LEAVES!”
For all my Photo Recipe Lovers: Aperture/ftsop was a 2.8 to give me a blurry background. ISO was down to 200 for maximum color saturation. With all that sunlight, the Shutter Speed was cooking at 640th of a second or 1/640–plenty fast to freeze their action and smiles.
Have a wonderful weekend friends! Brian and I get to spend the weekend with the beautiful November Seattle CONFIDENCE Workshop ladies, starting with a fun Meet and Greet at our house tonight. We are so excited. And next week, oh my goodness I can hardly wait, our new website/blog goes live with special announcements and goodies for the holidays!
Love you all!
Me Ra
p.s. If you emailed us about your baby being in my new book, we will be in touch by Monday! The photo shoots will happen on Saturday, November 21st, starting at 9am. If your baby fits what we are looking for, we are going to email you time slots so you can sign up. All the details (location, what to wear, how long the session will be, etc) are coming soon so watch your Inbox for an email from me or Genie! xoxo
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I love how you photo coached your children. I forget to coach mine, and sometimes it can be frustrating. I have to start showing them what I want them to do just like you did, good idea!
it seems like in this picture that they would have been backlit. what did your meter look like? centered on the 0 or closer to +1 or did you bring exposure up in lightroom?
Great question Lora. This was a Fall Shoot that I did for close friends. We started late so the sun was higher then I wanted it to be. So I did decide to backlight them and metered on the little boy’s face. Kept my meter in between 0-1. And the color is pretty much out of the camera, the Sony 900 color is that good. Not exposure or brightness really added either. But I did up the contrast a bit to bring more definition to the sharpness of the leaves. And I also added a vignette too.
Hope that helps!
beautiful fall colors! Appreciate the coaching tip for the little ones. Your right, it really does help to photocoach them with all the details especially when there are so many distractions around!
thank you Me Ra! At first glance I thought it was your kids!
It’s such a fun colorful shot, thanks for the help!
wow….i totally followed lora’s question and your answer….boy i’m getting good.
I love, love, love your photo recipe posts! Thank you!
Anyone else workout today?