I don’t bring Evan on many photo shoots with me. He’s four, after all. 90% of the time he is a sweet, well-mannered boy. However, the other 10% of the time, OH MY. He LOVES to come, so I let him come along if I am doing a session for a good friend sometimes. To keep him busy, I let him take pictures with my back-up camera, a 30D. I put one of my lighter lens on it, often the 28mm f/1.8 or the 85mm f/1.8, set the camera to auto, and let him have at it. It’s actually pretty entertaining to go through and look at the shots he captures. Often he will out-shoot me and end up with more shots than I do! Last week, I let Evan come with when I did a free session for a local non-profit organization that is looking to update their website (more on my end of those shots soon). Here are some of his captures. I think several of them are impressive for a four-year-old!
I find cats to be the hardest of all animals to photography (you try bribing a cat), but Evan did okay!
He caught this shot of me in action:
and this one (many of you are probably recognizing this non-profit now!):
Back to the cat:
An interesting angle:
Tree branches are always interesting:
Evan calls these “spaceships”. I try to tell him they’re airplanes, but he insists that THAT ONE (whichever one he’s looking at at the time) is a spaceship.
