How to Photograph Kids at a Birthday Party

Video Transcript

"In this clip, we're going to begin the photo shoot. How we run the photo shoot is while each of the girls are changing into their costumes, we'll actually shoot one of the kids. What you have to do is decide the pose appropriate to the costume. She's in a nice gown so of course, I've got her to sit down, you want to spread out the dress and then you want to make sure that you get a close up of them, a head shot, a three quarter shot as well as a full body shot. Great, good job, let's have the next person come up. The next person is a cheerleader. If you have pompoms, you can have them wear a pompom. What I want you to do is put your hands on your hips and dig one foot. Great. And that'll be a great cheerleader pose. Have the next person come up. Now, she has a top hat on; so maybe she can hold one finger on the hat, opening the finger up. You're going to have to manually move the children around a little bit. You're going to want to make sure that they don't have anything showing. Wonderful, good can you take and put this hand down like this? Good and when you take your pictures you're going to want to take an up close shot, head shot and a shot from far away."