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- Photographing Kids: Photography & Natural Light

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Thank you for watching Expert Village. Hi, my Erin Neumeyer and I am a professional photographer living in Venice, California. Today I am going to talk to you about taking amazing photographs of children and getting that professional look right here in your home. Alright now I am going to talk to you a little bit about some situations you might run into. We are in my garage right now and you might have this situation when you are at home if you got a window or a doorway or maybe a sliding glass door or if you have some light coming in strongly on one side, but you want to fill in this other way. You will see on this side his face is pretty well lit and it is actually a beautiful day out, it is over cast, it is perfect. But you might have some things around the house that you could use to help fill in this side of his face. So this is just a bath towel, but it is a nice light color and you can kind of see how this side of the face has gotten quiet a bit brighter. You can use a lot of other things. I mean I can use a pillow case, you know it sort of has the same effect or you know your bed sheet. So pretty much anything around the house and you can just support this off of a wall, or get someone else in the home to hold it up for him and then you would step back here and take your picture. Now I use this reflector. You can purchase these at a camera store, obviously you can see you don't need them. A reflector like this costs about sixty dollars, but they are great and if you are really going to get serious about taking kids photographs, this also does a fantastic job. (And what do you do on the other side?) This is a much brighter reflection.

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