Kid Portrait: How to shoot an active kid?

Sorry for not updating this blgo for sometime, I am very new to DSLR world, try and keep on trying is key to bring up the competency and technique on photo shooting. Portrait something I dun have any experience at all, not even on the P&S camera.

This photo shooting session in not planned, but just happened to meet my friend and her family at Giant Supermarket. Her cute and active kid triggered me to have a shot on him.

With nothing in my mind, I just get the camera and shoot. This totally doesn’t help, as I am using the setup while I am doing the food shooting. It is not applicable at all.

After several attempts, I realize to snap an active and moving kid, shutter speed is very important to capture the moment, but with faster shutter speed, you need to get higher ISO in order to get a great brighter image, but the depth of image is under consideration also. So we need to get a balance between all. We did realize our kit lens limitation, but still we try our best out of it. Forget to add in the kid’s mood into consideration too.

Moody photo

Better mood

As the photo shooting is done inside a supermarket where a lot of unexpected thing out of your control, such as people flow, background and lighting, of course SECURITY GUARD too. Before we are able to have more shot, we get “INVITED” out from the supermarket as NO PHOTO SHOOTING is ALLOWED in the supermarket. lolx

Key Learning for a success shooting:
1. Faster Shutter Speed
2. Lower Depth of Image
3. Higher ISO
4. Interaction between you and the kid
( Try to make the kid familiar with you and your camera, let them see what you shot, they will get excited easily and will get more interaction with you)

This shooting session did help to improve us on the future kid portrait shooting, and here is the shot we had.