How to prepare your child for a photo shoot

Often we forget why we organize a photo session, and the most important thing is to preserve the history of the family. In pursuit of a beautiful picture, it is important to remember that the main thing is to get pleasure from the shooting, and the youngest participants need to be prepared for this process.

It often happens that the kids behave badly at the shooting, do not listen to the requests, cry and are outraged - each one is different because of his character. And this has a reason! Let's figure it out?

1. TELL YOUR CHILD ABOUT SHOT If you treat the child as a small, and not as an adult, he will behave accordingly.Logical, right?

2. "SHORT MEMORY" Suppose you go to the shooting to the same photographer, and rightly so: adults, too, hardly get used to new people, and when a person is already familiar, it is much easier.But kids do not always remember what happened six months or a year ago. More precisely, never remember. Therefore, do not count on it. A photographer may seem unfamiliar a year, at two, or even at three. It happens, and get used to it, it means that it is necessary again.

3. CHILDREN GROWING If your first photo session went well, then a year later everything could change! To me on the set now come the kids, who, being one-year-olds, behaved perfectly at the shooting. Now, at two, they give heat to everyone!

4. DO NOT PROMISE A CHILD TO ANYTHING IN ADVANCE Having prepared the child for the shooting of the moral, you already do most of the work. It will also protect you from promising something to a child for shooting. Children are very impatient, everyone knows that. It is useless to promise ice cream after shooting, the child wants it now! "Smile and give a sweetie!" ends with a smile for 2 seconds, which the photographer will never have time to catch, but it's done, and the child is waiting for an award.

5. PICK A CONVENIENT DETAIL 6. DO NOT GIVE A CHILD If your makeup is scheduled for 2 hours, do not bring the child in advance. Some part of the shooting can be done without a child: this applies, for example, if your family is waiting for the second baby, and you need to take time to shoot the mother too.