9 Days
I
don't know how portrait photographers take pictures of toddlers. Even with high ISO these kids move SO much,
or they don't want to look at the camera, or I have to ask my mom/husband to
talk/sing or do anything to grab their attention. Most of the photos are blurred because of
their constant movement, and I was clicking on Manual mode on my camera because
photos on any other modes were not turning out great since I wasn’t having any special
lights or lamps, so the photos were looking whitish or weird-ish!
For
their backdrop I made a star garland. I
cut out stars in different shapes out of silver matte, metallic gold, and shiny gold
gift wrapping papers. I used a
transparent nylon thread and glued the same sized stars on both sides of the
thread. This backdrop took me half a day
to make, just because I wanted to hide the clear thread between the stars. There are star garlands on Amazon that would
have been worth it! Or after clicking
pictures I realized this looked as good as just gluing the stars on the
wall---so much effort could have been saved.
Or I could have bought a large star shaped punch and saved a ton of time that
was wasted cutting each star manually.
Anyway!
For the text: It's the chalkboard side of their magnetic puzzle (standing with the support of a box behind it) and I added text on it during editing. It was blank during the shoot.
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Phew. 9 down, 8 to go!
