We were this Saturday in Taviers near Namur, at a friends’ house. They rented giant wooden games and we had a great time playing with the kids! Thank you Vincent & Linda! Hope you will enjoy the pictures.
Children are probably the most challenging but also most rewarding subjects to photograph. Unlike adults, you cannot try to meet kids for a few seconds and ask them to “pose” or to “smile” for you. Do that and they’ll run away, you’re wasting your time.
You first need to get them used to you and your camera. Play with them, make funny faces, and after a while they will relax a little. If they are playing together, try to capture some candids.
How cute is this little one?
I love that last one, with her eye wrinkled on the shawl.
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Today, I’d like to show IMHO a very effective way to create stunning black and white pictures. Lots of my clients ask me how I create your pictures. Well today, I give you one of my secrets…
But first a bit of history (you will understand at the end of this post why I’m talking about color filters) … Back in the old days, people used colored filters for black and white film photography. These colored filters allowed the photographer to exercise some selective control over tone values. To make it simple, a colored filter used with b & w film will lighten similar colors and darken opposite colors.
Let’s take an example: for years, I’ve seen my dad use yellow filters when I was little but didn’t know why. If you take a look at the color wheel below, you can see that a yellow filter (1) will
- darken cyan(25) and magenta (13) and especially darken blue (19)
- lighten green (31) and red (7)
This was very useful for black and white landscape photography since it would darken the sky (blue) and lighten the grass/leaves (green). If you want to know more about color filters, I suggest you to read this very interesting article.
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