Candid Child Portrait
Kids are best photographed when they are totally absorbed
in something else. This little girl was watching a puppet
show. Although the kids knew I was taking pictures, the
puppet show was more exciting and, after a few minutes,
they forgot all about me.
The longer you spend taking pictures the more you blend into the
background and people forget you are there. If you have to use flash
of course it is a little more obvious that you are taking pictures
but you'd be surprised how quickly even that becomes just part of
the surrounding 'white noise'.
I used a 75-300mm zoom lens for this shot which allowed me to get
in really close from the other side of the room. Although I had
to use the dreaded 'flash on camera', the angle of the head gave
me an interesting shot and the shadows and highlights are not too
bad.
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