12 July 2011

Children's Photo Assignment: Up Close

My kids like to push each others' buttons.  We were at Gammy's and Azure was happily playing on the keyboard.  Pearl went over to push her buttons and the keys ;)  Of course the high-pitched squealing ensued.  Usually when my kids really start to bug each other, they are just bored and need a little direction of what to do.  I told Pearl to leave Azure alone and she came, slumped shoulders and all, over to where I was loading some photos.  Can I take some pictures?  She asked.  I told her that was a great idea and gave her an assignment.  I put on my macro lens and told her to choose a color and go throughout Gammy's house and take really close up photos of everything of that color.  I put the camera on "P" mode, so I could increase the ISO and there wouldn't be the need for a flash.  I was impressed with her shots and put them in a collage for her.  It kept her busy, she felt productive and artistic, showing me each shot when she returned.
Then of course Divine wanted to play.  She took a lot more time in her compositions and did really well at shooting each object up close.  She would review her photos and redo the blurry ones or the shots she didn't like or ask my opinion on which ones I liked better.


(I was working on Divine's necklace from last week's All in the Details Sundress :)




Did everyone else use Dana's Ruffled Streamer Tutorial for the fourth?  I even had Divine whipping it out. 


She tried to take a picture of Clover's eyes, since she took a survey and found her to have the "bluest" eyes of everyone, but found her subject to be most uncooperative, so she settled on taking a photo of one of her drawings.







Just another couple of new buttons for your kids to push ;)

16 comments:

  1. Great idea! My kids would be all over that! Gonna try it!

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  2. love it! good job divine and pearl!

    (i love how pearl took a photo of the napkin holder, and then realized the blue in the photo would not do—taking another without the napkins)

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  3. Olivia-you are the most observant person I have ever met ;)

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  4. What a wonderful exercise in concentration and Pearl's attention to detail is remarkable.

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  5. I'm tempted to let my little photo bug have at it with my camera, but she's only 5 and I'm not quite that comfortable letting her have the big camera. But I could send her out with the point and shoot to see what she comes up with.

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  6. This is such a great idea and the outcomes are so wonderful!!

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  7. Great idea! My kids are the same way. Summer starts and they really want to do a lot of nothing. Problem is, as soon as they start to get board Mommy has to get creative and "direct" them a bit. I am definitely going to try this.

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  8. Great idea....reminds me of those games at the back of magazines where it has the super up close photo of something and you have to guess what it is and then they show you the big picture:)

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  9. Jennifer-yes a point and shoot would be safer for little ones and easily substituted.

    Divine wanted to do lots of different colors, you could choose a color per day and display the rainbow in collage form in their bedroom!

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  10. I love this so much that I want to play! What a fun activity for your girls. They did a beautiful job.

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  11. I love taking our daughter on photography dates! I have to say I think this would be a perfect idea for our son to try! Thanks so much for sharing!

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  12. Brilliant, Katy. Just brilliant. And yes, I agree, Olivia is THE MOST OBSERVANT people in the world. Well, Kurt is pretty darn close.

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  13. What a great idea!! Love the collage.

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  14. This is such a cute idea and the fact that you put them in a little collage for her is just awesome! I love it and just LOVE the adventures your kids have! : )

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  15. Way to go Katy, Pearl and Divine!

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