Through
personal contacts I have been asked to photograph many children; I like this work
as I enjoy photographing children. These shoots were not done in the studio but
were taken in a small studio space I had set up at home with equipment I had
loaned from the university store specifically for these shoots.
Because of
the limited space and equipment many of these photographs needed backgrounds
cleaning and changing before I was happy to present them to the parents. I gave
each parent a disc with their child’s image on the front and around 25 images
each. One thing I also did was to buy a small 8*10 frame in black and silver
which looked sleek and elegant and gave each parent a print out of one of the
photos as a thank you, this only cost me £1.75 per parent but it was worthwhile
to see their reactions as they had never expected an outcome like that.
Hopefully this means they will be thinking of me if they are ever thinking of
getting any new photographs done and it also means that if they display the
photographs in their house people will be asking about it and I am hoping that
my name will be mentioned and some other parents will come my way.
One thing
that I will have to mention in future is not to dress children in white as
three out four children were wearing white t-shirts, this means that on some
screens the t-shirts look blown out and merges into the background however this
is not the case.
I also took
photos of Marley; Marley is a special needs child who has Down syndrome, there
was no difference in photographing him to any of the other children and I
really enjoyed the experience. I got many images that I could give to his
family, I also took a photograph of Marley with his grandma and this is the
image I printed out for them, she was overwhelmed when she saw the print and
couldn’t thank me enough, I do not think that they had thought about getting
photographs before because Marley is nervous and often misbehaves for strangers
yet because he knew me and he knew my mum who was also in the house with me.
He was very hyperactive
and did not want to sit still so I had to be quick and work around him; we had
often breaks and let him play with some toys. I still managed to get around 80
images, 20 if which I am happy to send to the clients.
This is
another shoot I have done, Ethan is the same age as Marley and was also very
hyperactive and was not very cooperative with me, he did not want to sit and
smile for the camera so instead I have many photographs of him pulling faces,
his mother was happy with these and encouraging them because she knew he would
not sit down and sit still, he is also cheeky and hyper full time so these
photos reflect his personality.
This is the
photograph I have printed out for his parents, she was very happy with this, as
she had not expected to receive anything of the sort. After printing I realised
that I had not masked around the hair properly and that I needed to redo this
and fix it.
I also
photographed Ethan’s half-sister Chloe, this was an easy shoot as I was able to
direct Chloe to sit still long enough to get some photos, I am pleased with
these photographs. I have also printed out one of the photographs of her shown
above.
Because they
were brother and sister I have photographed them together as well as separate,
this was a little harder because Ethan was in a bad mood with his sister and
did not seem to want her to be photographed; he kept screaming and shouting
that I was not allowed to photograph her. This is one of the outcomes I took of
them both together:
They also
got a disc of all the photographs and this was the photograph used on the
cover. After uploading this image to my blog I noticed the corner in the image
and changed this instantly before the client received these photographs.
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