Stroll Teaching your kids to take pics?

KillRamsey

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Name
Kyle
Anyone else do this? I figure...

1. It's a fun thing for us to do together
2. It gets us outside
3. She uses her brain
4. She creates beauty and gets to see the results later

A few times now we've gone for photo walks, usually to the gigantic old cemetery across the street. She takes my old Nikon Coolpix superzoom compact on a shortened strap. We stroll, she carefully arranges and shoots pictures. Later, she gets to see them on my computer. And then, of course, I get to make an album for relatives on facebook. So we did this yesterday afternoon, slowly, as she had a cold. Some of her shots:

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Unbeknownst to me, while we were way up in the stone tower there, she found my work building / zoomed in / took a shot of it. I had no idea.
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And my shots, often of her taking a shot (meta, baby)... I also tried hard to make wide crops, just to be different. I go to this place SO much:
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Love your adventures and images you both get!

To answer your question - of course, for the very same reasons. Although sometimes we even do it "oldschool" - manual focusing and manual exposure :)

The results can get all over the place, but it's all about fun and exploring. And even sometimes they lend themselves to different processing.

Or am I just watching too many documentaries about autochromes? :)

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Very cool to hear - all of you, even the ones that didn't take. I'm working hard to keep it fun, and not be about me. And I don't push it too often, just something to go do when the light is nice, or we have time to kill.

I've been playing good music for her since she was born, but I fear she's going to go running for sugary pop garbage the first second she's able. It's inevitable. I just tell myself that one day when she's 22, she'll suddenly hear a Graham Parsons / Byrds / Beatles / whatever song on the radio and think "....yeah ok, maybe that's not so bad."
 
No ankle-biters of my own, but I have bought my neighbors' 5 grandkids a camera for Christmas a couple years ago. They've also had the opportunity to watch me work in the darkroom.
 
Very cool to hear - all of you, even the ones that didn't take. I'm working hard to keep it fun, and not be about me. And I don't push it too often, just something to go do when the light is nice, or we have time to kill.

I've been playing good music for her since she was born, but I fear she's going to go running for sugary pop garbage the first second she's able. It's inevitable. I just tell myself that one day when she's 22, she'll suddenly hear a Graham Parsons / Byrds / Beatles / whatever song on the radio and think "....yeah ok, maybe that's not so bad."

Don't give up! My dad played Deep Purple's 'Made in Japan' record on vinyl for me when I was 16. I like to think that saved me ;)

The difference in white balance between you and your daughter is striking. I'm curious, are you using daylight setting for WB?
 
The difference in white balance between you and your daughter is striking. I'm curious, are you using daylight setting for WB?

The Nikon is, of course, on auto - fairly sure there's no choice on that old thing. I set mine manually to be fairly warm, using the Kelvin temp scale and eyeballing it. That's where it looked "right" to me, again acknowledging that it was warmer than real life.
 
Very cool to hear - all of you, even the ones that didn't take. I'm working hard to keep it fun, and not be about me. And I don't push it too often, just something to go do when the light is nice, or we have time to kill.

I've been playing good music for her since she was born, but I fear she's going to go running for sugary pop garbage the first second she's able. It's inevitable. I just tell myself that one day when she's 22, she'll suddenly hear a Graham Parsons / Byrds / Beatles / whatever song on the radio and think "....yeah ok, maybe that's not so bad."

My daughter did the photography thing with me for a bit, but it did not grab her. She'll still pick up one of my cams and take some shots of her room and things sometimes, but it is very casual. At ten she is doing OK on the music side though, and hearing what her friends listen to I think maybe that is a much bigger deal. She goes for Bob Marley (or Ziggy) when in calm mode around the house, then some Green Day or RHCP when in more active mode.
 
Occasionally I can get both of my daughters to enjoy shooting pics. Unfortunately one can not push them too much, then they loose their interest. But I always have big grin when I see them to pick up their cameras. Ages 11 and 13, and I've told them some basics in shooting and they usually don't shoot in Auto-mode, but Aperture mode mostly. If I just could get their iPhones away, then they might use real cameras more ;)
I also have grown up boys, and they aren't interested in photography at all :(

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