For this week’s Project 52, I have done one picture each of all the boys. Instead of capturing them busy playing or in a candid shot, I have asked them to stay still and look at the camera, but they still manage to show their personality in the photos. For three photos of three brothers all next to pretty much plain cream background they have all ended up with quite different photos.
The only one who actually stays still and looks at the camera is Mr Z. The reason I did ask them to do that is for this week’s task in the Love All Blogs Better Photo Project – to focus on the eyes.
I find this much easier with one who will stay still for more than 2 seconds, so Mr Z is great to practise with. I do think the final result would have been better if I kept all the previous points in mind and had better lighting too! Mr Z has very beautiful eyes. I may be biased as his mum, but he has been told this by lots of other people too so I like to think it’s true. He has great eyelashes, much longer and better than mine! Masha allah 🙂 Even when he’s sitting still and posing, his eyes still show a bit of his cheeky character.
Mr T struggles a little more with eye contact, although we don’t really notice this massively day to day I do notice when I’m trying to take photos. He will look at the camera some days, but that’s on his own terms and a lot of the time it’s if he wants to make a silly face so although sometimes I do get lucky and get a good shot looking at the camera, we also have a lot of pics of him looking down, looking sideways or looking at something else. That’s fine though, as that reflects him! I still tried my best to focus on the eyes despite that he wouldn’t look!
Mr R was also not that easy to focus because he is very active and he was moving too quick! I do find with him that every time I have the focus point lined up on the camera, he will move! This results in a lot of blurry pictures so my technique with him has to be to take lots and hope for the best!! This is the only non blurred photo I got on this occasion, and although it’s still not the sharpest I do like it because it shows his personality. You can tell he was on the move and about the run off again!
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What a lovely smile he has! Great photo’s!
What beautiful boys, Mr R has a cheeky grin #mysundayphoto
What a lovely idea, although I don’t think half of mine would sit still!
They are both gorgeous! It’s always hard to get pics of little ones, mine never stay still either 🙂 #MySundayPhoto
loving these pictures honey i am also loving the effects on them xx
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Three very lovely pictures
Oh what gorgeous kidlets. SO hard to get them to stay still, isn’t it? 🙂
Gorgeous photos. Mr R looks so cheeky!
Lovely photos! Very handsome boys.
They are very beautiful, great photos with lovely smiles
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these are fantastic pics hun! x
These are lovely photos and gorgeous boys who all have beautiful eyes, I think 🙂
He’s gorgeous!! My son has autism & getting him to make eye contact for photos is like mission impossible lol. Your photos made me smile 🙂
Really fab idea! Gorgeous kids, too. My 3 year old is the same as Mr R – won’t stay still for a photo.
Lovely pictures, handsome boys, I am sure they make you proud!
The boys are looking gorgeous as ever Anna x
Gorgeous photos! The soft focus on the edges of the pics really draws your attention to the boys faces. They are gorgeous boys anyway – you should be so proud x
Your boys are gorgeous 🙂
My 5 year old wouldn’t look at the camera at all, it drove me mad because he wanted me to take the photos! I realised and thought to tell him to look directly at the camera and not at me, and he’s much better now 🙂
Well done not capturing the backs of their heads – POD is always running off! I have to catch her unawares most of the time! Lovely photos, all gorgeous boys 🙂
they look so cute
Beautiful smiles and lovely eyes – so big and bright – perfect for photos!
Thanks for joining in again x
great photos of your gorgeous boys.
Great range of pictures. D isn’t very good at staying still either. I love the picture of Mr R – sometimes action shots are the best!
Thanks for linking up to Project 365.