Source of inspiration for child portrait photography
17.11.2011  |   Add comment   |   No comments  |  Permalink
Every now and often a photographer might suffer from a block, be it isnpirational or motivational. Taking good portraits that are fresh and lively can be a hard task to accomplish. Most of the time I have tons of ideas running through my billions of neurons, but sometimes I have a moment when I hold my camera and just wonder what to do next.

Photographing a child is dependent mostly on the child itself, but even if you would have the kindest and most lovely child in front of you to photograph, this is not helpful at all if you don't know how to photograph the child.

My biggest source of inspiration is online service called Flickr, where you can post your photos for others to see, create collections and sets and also join groups. Flickr contains thousands of different groups focusing on a specific topic. I belong to couple of groups focusing on child portrait photography and I have learned a lot from these groups.

http://www.flickr.com

In addition to adding own photos to Flickr, a user can also browse other users' photos and tag them as favorites. This list of photos can later be browsed in one page. This is the inspiration, in addition to my daughters, I was talking about. I have marked numerous child portraits as my favorites and visit this collection quite often.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arturgajewski/favorites

I also visit some of profession child portrait photographers to admire their work. This also gives me a lot of motivation to keep doing what I do and also inspire to become even better portrait photographer.

http://www.ajatonjoki.com

http://www.lapsikuvaus.fi