Five Easy WaysTo Take Great Photos Of Your Kids (NAPS)—Asporting event can be a gold mine when it comes to taking great photos of children. Soccer matches and swimming lessons are prime material, but capturing fast action can pose challenges. How can you be sure to take digital pictures that are truly worthy of frames? Here are a few easy suggestions: Let the equipment do the work: For sports pictures, you'll be hard pressed to find a better camera than a digital SLR. These cameras may seem intimidating, but some arefairly lightweight and equipped with advanced automatic features so anyone can take professional-quality photos. For example, Sony’s Alpha DSLRA200 digital SLR camera features built-in image stabilization for sharper, steadier photos. Attach an ultraversatile “all-in-one” lens to handle wide-angle, close-up and long-range shots, such as the SAL 18-200 mm, and you won’t need to bother with schlepping around multiple lenses. Pick your spots: Just like the pros, scout out the sidelines before your child’s soccer match or basketball game starts and place yourself where you think most of the action is likely to happen. Go to their level: Photograph children at their level or even try extreme angles. It may help to sit on the ground as you shoot. This technique will magically improve your photos’ composition. Ready, set, freeze: Use a fast shutter speed, between 1/250 and Capturing your young sports star’s best moves can be a snap with a digital SLR camera. 1/4,000 of a second. Faster shutter speeds help freeze the action rather than capture motion blur. If you cannot manually adjust the shutter on your camera, switch to a fast shutter-speed scene mode such as sports. Give them room: In your postgameshots, go beyond asking your kids to say “cheese.” Stand back and use your zoom settings to try to capture them at surpris- ing moments. Be sure to take extreme close-ups as well. You’ll collect a variety of interesting photos, rather than just posed shots. The beauty of digital cameras is that you can take as manypictures as your media card will allow and you can edit or delete them as you go. Take lots of pictures and have fun. You only have to print and frame the ones you love. Did You Know? Sony’s Alpha DSLR-A200 digital SLR camera has imagestabilization built into the body of the camera so every lens attached to it is automatically stabilized. 10 Tips on taking better photos of children playing sports. /// Five Easy Ways To Take Great Photos Of Your Kids.
