Child Photography | It Can Be Tough Sometimes

© 2011 Wazari Wazir | Child Photography | HaiQal With Book

Actually this is not the Photograph that I have in mind, my idea is to to photograph my son holding the book and show it to me. Bu he seems to be more interested with the chocolate than the book, maybe because that book is not for him, does not interest him at all because there is not many pictures in it, just words and more words. I just bough that book from Kinokuniya Bookstore in Kuala Lumpur. The title of the book is Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson.

If I get the shot that I want, I will tell about the book that I just bough but since I don’t get the shot that I want, I will tell a story about this picture a bit. Not really about this particular picture but more about the difficulty for me as a father to take a photograph of my own son. Some of you may think that it was very easy for me to get my son on the camera, the truth is, it becoming more and more difficult or tough. I have to try all kind of tactics to get my son on camera, I’ve to try all kind of funny ad crazy things in order to attract his attention. Most of the time I failed but nevertheless I never failed to captured his picture, his personality or character as a child through the lens and I think that is what matter the most, not just  happy smiling looking kids.

Since I like to take a photograph of my son with a natural light, I don’t have much time fooling around, making jokes because it’s getting dark. It’s almost 07:00 P.M when I took this photograph. Sometime we don’t always get what we intent to make or captured. As a photographer we should have a high level of patience and be persistent with our photographic endeavor. Portrait photography is all about human, it’s about communication, be it with the person that we know or someone which is a total stranger. No matter how tough it is to photograph my son, I will always make the time to photographed him. More often than not, sometimes we get a great photograph in a difficult circumstances of “tough situations”.

Looking back at this photograph, I think this picture will look great or maybe “fun” to look at if I give my son a small book, and make him pretend to read it, hold it a little bit higher, so that I can still see the picture on the book below, talking about “Juxtaposition”. I’ll keep that in mind later…

*Juxtaposition involves comparing two or more elements within a photograph, bringing out either the similarity or dissimilarity between them. Juxtaposition also can involve contrasting elements. In such cases, we will see elements that are strikingly, and often incongruously, different. We can compare and contrast elements by placing them side-by -side, above or below each other, or layer them in the foreground, middleground and background. | Phil Douglis