How do you pose your own children?

[neptunerain]

My daughter (four turning five) will not pose for pictures at all unless it is silly. She is driving me crazy. I chase and chase after her when I try to shoot her. (No pun intended :lol:)

I love pretty romantic shoots. I am just about ready to give that up. How do you pose your children? Do you given to their personalities or do they co-operate?

Any ideas? suggestions?

[kalee]

i don't pose my own...
it's futile.
i just mainly focus on capturing the moment.
my five year old son... i can really only get a decent picture of him right now if he's playing football or sleeping. =)

case in point.
http://i39.tinypic.com/4rowwg.jpg

[izy]

Do they have a favourite relative that they cannot see often? Grandma? Grandpa?

"Grandma would love for you to take a nice photo for her, she misses you very much"

Let child be interactive with the photos - show them to them as you take them...

Let me know how that goes : )

[neptunerain]

Great idea! Grandma and Grandpa do live far away! I will give it a try. ;)

[othomas]

Take her to a local park with plenty of flowers and some wildlife, squirrels etc and let her do her own thing. You on the other hand stay with her camera poised ready for the magic shot to happen.

Good luck you'll need it as well as loads of patience ;)

[PhotosByT]

how about a bribe? :)

[zagiace]

My 3 year old used to be awesome at posing for me. I took advantage and now he rolls his eyes at me when I ask him to smile.
I do 2 things.
1.) I tell him I do not want to see him smile. Of course, 8 times out of 10 he smiles.
2.) if that did not work, I bribe him. He is my highest paid model.
The rest of the time I do not try to get him to smile or even look at the camera.

[nuffi]

My daughter (four turning five) will not pose for pictures at all unless it is silly. She is driving me crazy. I chase and chase after her when I try to shoot her. (No pun intended :lol:)

I love pretty romantic shoots. I am just about ready to give that up. How do you pose your children? Do you given to their personalities or do they co-operate?

Any ideas? suggestions?

If you love pretty romantic photos, you could maybe make a game of dressups. Get some sort of period costume together, build an appropriate back drop (or even travel to some place that has the right look)

Travel can make it more of an adventure, and a fun day too.

[egraff13]

My kids (4 and 5) are pretty cooperative for the most part. I've tried to always let them be a part of the process from the camera to the computer. My daughter has her own camera and she is very into posing people now too. I haven't been above bribing either though! :lol:

[JimmyNeutron]

Give her something to do while you shoot - blowing bubbles, hula hoop, hopscotch, smell flowers...make sure the focus is on the activity and not your photography. Help her get into what she's doing, and once she gets hooked on it, start sneaking shots. You might get a few seconds or a few minutes to work with. Rarely is a 5yo going to pose (naturally, anyway) for the camera.

[randy98mtu]

I'm struggling right now with my 1 year old. Of course I can't tell her what to do yet, but I like to just sit back and capture moments of her playing. My problem is she LOVES gadgets. The second the camera comes out, she comes and sits in my lap to push buttons. I agree with giving them something to keep them busy. I find that if I give her something new before I pull out the camera or just after I do I can distract her.

[mrso]

Take her to a local park with plenty of flowers and some wildlife, squirrels etc and let her do her own thing. You on the other hand stay with her camera poised ready for the magic shot to happen.

Good luck you'll need it as well as loads of patience ;)


That is what I also do.

Sometimes I have my 4 year fill up a basket full of toys. Then we go to the park and use the toys to keep him interested in what we are doing instead of being silly crazy. Last time we used books, basketball, bubbles, and construction toys. It also helps to pick a park/location that isnt too distracting!!

[E3_Photo_Studio]

I haven't really had too much trouble posing my little drama queens....except for the ages of 12 mos to 2 years.....that age is hard b/c they don't want to sit still at all. But I've just worked with what they want to do and got some amazing pics in the process. With my clients however....I've had parents bring in family members, food, candy, pets....you name it to try and get a ridiculous pose out of a LITTLE kid that doesn't understand what the heck is going on. LOL It's really entertaining! And sometimes it works but most of the time not.....the best thing is to just let the kids be kids and find their own poses. That's when you get the most precious pics IMO. :)

[htsht]

Only that works for me is to tell my 1 year old to give my 3 year old a hug. Most generally it works out, I do miss some though because I am laughing to hard at them though. Getting them to sit still is impossible.

[crabby78]

i dun hv much trouble to ask my sons (4yrs old) to pose as they will hug each other when they see me holding a camera.....