Shoot the kids!
‘I feel like shooting the kids!’ is a phrase you might find yourself uttering more often than usual during these periods of enforced lockdown. But with limited options to get out and about with your camera, this is a great time to try and improve your skills at photographing your nearest and dearest for treasured portraits. Kids, of course, throw up their own special challenges for the photographer: attention spans are often limited, notorious show-offs can become uncharacteristically camera-shy, and babies can, well, just throw up… Let’s see how our four Apprentices from the archives got on…
APPRENTICE #1
Ian Bowie
When Glaswegian policeman Ian joined us as our Apprentice for the January 2014 edition of N-Photo, he was the proud new dad to a three-month-old newborn. His mentor was Stuart Cooper, a portrait photographer based in Hampshire. The two met in the grounds of a stately home in Cumbria for their outdoor session, along with two sets of children that Stuart had arranged to model for the shoot.
ACTION REPLAY
Don’t be afraid to ask children to do something again if you miss the shot first time. The
