Here’s another prac­tical tip for you all. When you take pho­tos of a child, get all the way down to their eye level! This will give you some amaz­ing per­spect­ives plus you’ll have a fun time dodging greasy, gooey fin­gers that are try­ing to touch the magic­ally attract­ive front ele­ment of your lens :-)

I’m sure you can image that when you take a photo of a small child from your adult’s per­spect­ive, you’ll end up get­ting a pic­ture that a) makes the small child look even smal­ler, b) usu­ally doesn’t prop­erly show its face, c) instead provides you with ample vis­tas of the ground (and not the actual sur­round­ing) and d) is just plain bor­ing because that’s how you per­ceive the world any­way, every day.

So next time you’re pho­to­graph­ing the little ones, down at least to their eye level, if not lower — even if this means lay­ing flat on the ground.

PS: The kid on the photo is the lovely and com­pletely ador­able son of a col­league of mine.