Sure, anyone can take a photo of a still subject & make it look pretty good. But add in wiggle worm kids + late evening hours + inside & I become photo challenged! Almost everything will come out blurry if you don’t have the right settings on your camera.
With the holidays & almost everything happening in the evening hours or indoors, I’m bound & determined to capture good photos of these 3. Because there really should be no excuses when capturing memorable moments. Time moves too fast for excuses!
I played around this weekend with my settings on my camera in manual mode! Usually I resort to auto mode in the evening, but here’s what I was able to capture & trust me, they weren’t still for these photos at.all. I let them do whatever they wanted while I was playing around with the settings. Because we were here for awhile, mind you.
Nothing came out blurry with all their moving around. All candid, which I love & no stress in trying to get the perfect “posed” picture so that it wouldn’t look blurry. SCORE!
I used my 50 mm lens, ISO set @: 1600, f/1.8
I have a running list of photo ideas to do this month that I can’t wait to try out!
What’s your favorite holiday pictures to take? Do you take the same ones year after year as the kids grow?
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Thank you for sharing, I am going to play around with my camera and give this a try
Love this – thanks for sharing!!
This is so dang cute! Love the photos
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just what I need with a newborn, thank you!
Great picture! lovely kids : )
Love these photos!
I need my hubs to get our Christmas stuff out so I can play around again this year. I didn’t quite get it last year!
What great tips ~ thanks so much for sharing…I’m going to have to try these : )
So cute!
So super cute
Love the of the lights!!
What is f 1.8?
Great idea, Kellie. Love those pretty sparkly lights and the cute kiddos.
these are gorgeous…what was your shutter speed? Thanks for sharing!
These are so sweet Kellie!! I love how they turned out and the kids are so super cute!
thanks, Bev! i couldn’t believe they let me play around with the camera for a while. (a rare thing!)
Hi, I saw your son has a broken arm. My daughter broke hers last week, and I am trying to come up with a cute photo idea for our Christmas cards this year. She is 6 and my other girl is 9. Any cute ideas would be so very appreciated !!!!!! (this is our first broken anything)…lol
this was our first broken anything as well! i don’t have any tips. so sorry. i may end up using one of these, to be honest. i had a “grand” idea for a picture & it didn’t turn out at all. so…as always i’m last minute. things are so busy i may just do one from this post. thanks for stopping by.