Photo ideas by month · month 8
8 months old: photos worth taking.
Month eight is the month the furniture becomes equipment. Coffee tables get grabbed, sofas get climbed at, and a laundry basket becomes a boat. Keep the camera low and slightly ahead of wherever the action is heading, and stop trying to get anybody to look at you.
Month 8
Things worth photographing this month.
Pulled up at the coffee table
If he is hauling himself up on the furniture, kneel on the far side of the table so the camera is level with his hands and face. Clear the table first — one mug in frame will date the photo in the wrong way. Shoot the moment the head comes up over the edge.
The low crawl, camera on the floor
Put the phone flat on the floor, lens forward, at the end of the hallway with daylight behind you, and let her come. This angle makes an ordinary corridor look enormous. Take a lot; most will miss, and one will be the photo of the month.
Laundry-basket sitting
An empty laundry basket with a folded towel in the bottom is a chair, a boat, and a frame all at once. Set it in the brightest spot in the room, sit him in it under supervision, and photograph from the front at rim height. The plastic weave gives the picture texture for nothing.
Window watching
When she stops to look out of the window at rain or a passing dog, stay behind her and expose for the face rather than the view. A silhouette is fine too, if you like it. This is a photo about attention, so let the room stay dark around it.
If there are teeth
If a tooth or two have turned up, you cannot make anybody show them, so wait for a laugh and take three fast frames from close and low. Do not pull the lip back for the camera. A grin with two little squares in it is worth the wait.
Dinner, hands only
Photograph the hands rather than the face for once: fingers full of soft food, the tray, the drop over the edge. Shoot straight down from over the high chair with the kitchen window to one side. It is a picture of a meal and a picture of two small hands at the same time.
Eight months in the chair
Same chair, same spot, though he may now be trying to get off it. One adult stands close by, out of frame, and you take the frame quickly. A blurred hand at the edge is honest and fine.
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