If you have ever taken pictures of small kids then you know how hard it is. Posing is out of question as well as any chances they would stay in one place for longer than 2 seconds without moving. However, these and many more challenges connected with photographing small children can lead to interesting results. I also always say that challenges are always exciting for me.

Portraits of Children

I met with my high-school friend in Poland during summer 2009. It was a great pleasure to meet her husband for the second time and even a greater pleasure to take few pictures of their kid Tim. While the kid is awesome, it was not easy at all to keep him stay in one place for longer than 2 seconds. So what did I do? I made a mistake – I was snapping pictures like crazy. Honestly, I didn’t have much of a choice, especially shooting with high aperture of f/1.8 and f/2.2 (shallow depth of field). I decided to use my AF-S NIKKOR 35mm F/1.8 lens for shallow depth of field as a special effect.

Portraits of Children

Well, I ended up with around 450 pictures out of which I have chosen only 45. Imagine that you have to go over 450 pictures and not only choose the best ones but also to edit them and do post-processing. You can imagine how much time it took. In fact, it took me 8 days (more or less). But I think it was worth it at the end. I believe that some pictures came out better than I actually expected. I’m presenting you only some of them here.