Tips: Dress your kids in earthy-appley colors. (Hi. My name is Robyn and I make up words. When necessary.) Think about the apples, and letting them be the pops of colors. So, the attention goes to your sweet kids' faces & the apples. Not the clothes. Think plain without patterns, or at most, simple and monochromatic color schemes. My son is in a yellow shirt (he wanted to match his favorite apples), and my daughter is in green with a yellow bow.
Play with the light. Also, one of my favorite things to do is to get under the tree with the kids, able to see the sky behind their faces and they come out from under the tree.
Make sure the fruit gets her close-up. And not to gross you out, but if you rub off the pesticides, the apples look a lot better in photos. See the shiny ones at the top? Yeah. And if you have the option, bump your color saturation up in your color menu for this shot. Sharpness, too, if you'd like. And zoom in an manually focus if you have that option. Which I did not do for this shot and wish I had taken the time to do. Another cute one? Have the kids sit on the sides and look up at you as you hold the camera high (on auto-focus). Now look, I'm giving away all my secrets. Trouble :) Have fun!
oh, and always pack some attitude. you know, for the woman who birthed you. (Tilt your camera here and there, and try to drop it to the level of the kids' faces. That way, the orchards look to the viewer of the photograph as they do to the kids: BIG. See how her arm is perpendicular to the ground and her shoulders are parallel to it? Btw, her brother made her that necklace. How sweet is that?!)
and this one...well, i just love it. my dad actually took this one. so, credit Dad & the Nikon D90 on that shot. Wish I hadn't been in the way. They're dissecting the process. Love it!
Now, go and enjoy some apple-picking!
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