This was my first shoot with a kid that was one and a half years old! I learned two very important lessons on this shoot. The first one is to have patience. Kids that are one and a half have no concept about listening, or doing what you tell them to do. I admit I got a little frustrated. Then when the kid pulled out his playing cards I got an idea! He was so focused on the playing cards he barely noticed I was taking his picture. At first the pictures were too dark because he wasn't in the direction of my lighting. To get him in front of my lights I simply moved the playing cards. After that we had fun and took pictures. I felt he had really warmed up to me. After I got enough pictures, I began to show him the back of my camera. That's when this kid put on the basket as a hat. It was almost like he was saying, "take a picture of me with this basket on my head." So I'd take a picture and show him; then I'd take another picture and show him. I did that until we both got bored. The other lesson I learned was to know what my customer wants before you go into a shoot. This should be obvious, but I didn't know it. I had all these ideas of taking the kid's shirt off and making him look like an angel, but the parents were very conservative. That's not a bad thing, but if I would have known what they wanted before the shoot it would have been a little less frustrating. Even though this was a very frustrating shoot for me I think I got some good pictures, and I met some awesome people! I'm glad the parents gave me the time to photograph their son and helped me build my portfolio! I just hope they like the pictures.
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