Research: Photographing Children.

Polish artist photographing her children

The link above sends you to a website called Artfido. The website has all kinds of artistic approaches and I just happened to find one that sent me to a page with some really beautiful photography of children. The photographs are simplistic, black and white, with children going about their daily things. Having the children in their natural environment has made these images even better. As the children are her own, they would have been a lot more comfortable with her, there's no awkwardness, just kids being kids. Photographing children isn't always the easiest, but the above artist has done remarkably well. Her use of framing and shutter are what I like the most. She's managed to capture the motion of the children as they go about their activities, and kept them frozen in time. Framing is a big part of some of her photographs, especially the one where one of the boys is looking through some kind of leafy plant. His eyes are perfectly in focus, framed by the leaves around him.

Her use of black and white simplifies the noise in the image, there is a lot of depth in the shadows and nothing in the background to distract the viewer. The narrow aperture of her close up images also helps to reduce background noise. It stops little things from standing out too much and creating too much for the viewer to get distracted by. The photographs with slightly larger apertures feel a lot wider, as if there is more space in the image, this could be something she thought a lot about before hand, the way she wanted the image to be portrayed as the narrow/wide depth of field does change how it is portrayed quite drastically.