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Now, when you are shooting a child that's a little bit older, like five and up, you
have more options. Not that you couldn't take a younger child to the park, but a child that's
a little bit older really is phenomenal in these situations cause you can get them coming
down the slide, or playing on the swing. And just engaging in all kinds of wonderful activities.
And actually with children this age, I like to even step back and let them sort of play
on their own. And I would consider doing things like, trying to use the telephoto feature
on your point and shoot and stand back while they're playing and sort of zoom in and just
watch them. Always have your camera ready and just watch them for the right moment where
you capture them doing something or maybe laughing with their friend. Another thing
is the flash. the flash can be really distracting for an older child, unless, of course, you've
got them sitting. By then they're probably pretty good at sitting there and having a
flash go off and instructing them. But you can capture really amazing photographs by
just turning that flash off and they won't even realize that you're taking a picture
while they're deep in concentration or looking at a flower or playing with their friends.
Older kids also, are a lot easier to pose. So you can get them to do really fun things
like doing little human pyramids, or playing frisbee. or different things where they are
in action or doing something fun and that can tell more of a story. So, that's some
good ideas for older kids.