Photo Tip ~ Zoom with your Legs
You’re finally sitting down after getting your kids breakfast, doing a load of laundry, a load of dishes, picking up cheerios and if you’re lucky, eating breakfast yourself. You’re finally getting a little peace and maybe you’re even drinking coffee, but then your beautiful child does the cutest thing you’ve ever seen. You’re sitting down so you pull out your iPhone and snap a photo. But it looks awful.
The struggle is real.
You may think that using the zoom feature on your camera or phone is a great compromise in the sitting/getting up photo taking struggle, but it actually is a bad deal. Fixed point lenses are not able to physically change so it’s just the processor inside stretching out the image and reducing the quality. If however, you have a camera with a lens that moves then zooming could work out well for you (provided that you’re not still too far away).
So if you find yourself at the mercy of a fixed lens, you can take the photographic reigns back by zooming with your legs.
Filling the frame with your beautiful child is way better than a photo of mostly grass, and this is almost always true. We have a temptation to accept photos with little subjects in the camera only to look at the photo later and wish our subject filled the frame.
You can find some internal motivator to get you into photographic action. For me I think about the work of deleting bad photos, like “am I really going to show this to anyone?” If the answer is no, then I get up and take a better photo.
Taking photos of kids is work for sure, but it’s totally worth it to feel like a mom-photographer-rock-star.
