It could be because you always take them from the same angle. Most of the time we simply raise the camera to our eye level and snap a shot (which is absolutely fine, you can get some great pictures that way!)
But my photography tip of the week to help you get much more variety and interest in your photos is:
Change your perspective!
This is the shot that most of us opt for, and it's a classic for a reason. This is the way we tend to view our loved ones most of the time, so it's a viewpoint that is familiar and results in photos that seem true-to-life to us, and you can still get variety in photos taken from this angle by changing the position of your subject in the frame.
You can start to make your photos much more interesting by getting down low and pointing your camera up at your subject. If you're taking photos of your child, shooting them from below will make them appear bigger, which in turn gives an impression of importance, so this can be a great technique to use if you want to capture milestones like when they take their first steps, or the first time they tackle a new part of the climbing frame at the park.
You might decide that, rather than make your child look bigger, you want to emphasize how small they are. You can do this by standing over them and taking the photo from above.
This is also a great way to include more of the environment in the photo - say your child has built an amazing train track and is sat in amongst it, playing. If you can get as high as possibly above them, maybe by standing on a chair, then you can get a great photo of them and their activity!
If you fancy putting these ideas into practice then, when your child is engaged in an activity, or your baby is happily lying down, spend 5 minutes with your camera, walking around them, crouching down and stretching up high and see how many different photos you can take of them, from all sorts of different angles.
I'd love to see what you come up with , so please do share your photos with me on my Facebook page!
Interested in learning more? You can read my other photography tip posts here. And if you're keen to actually get in front of the camera more, and take some great photos that also feature YOU, then you should go and check out my ebook - Making memories! |