After my family had a look at my macro shots of flowers, they decided to make me take pictures for my niece's first birthday. I'm pretty scared cause its my niece's first birthday and I really don't want to mess up. Any advice or tips on taking pictures of a baby at a birthday party? I'm using a Canon PowerShot SD400.
Advice or tips on taking pictures of an event?
First, don't be scared. If your family liked your macro shots of flowers, your picture taking skills are okay. I can help with a few tips that will make it easier to take good pictures at this event.
Stay close to the subjects and use your flesh if you can. Use the camera's optical viewfinder, not the LCD screen on the back. Use the optical zoom lens, but try to avoid using the digital zoom for your pictures. Concentrate on holding your camera steady (using the optical viewfinder instead of the LCD screen will make this a far easier). Make sure your camera batteries are charged and bring a spare charged battery if you have one and can do that. Set your camera on its highest quality image setting and make sure that you have an empty formatted flash card. If you have a spare card, bring it. And finally and most important, take your time, but take plenty of pictures.
You really should have no problems at all with this event. It will be far easier than doing macro pictures of flowers.
Good luck!
Reply:set it to speed shot? cuz babies move a lotta and fast so if you want like a good pic of someone moving you should set it to that motion effect. just take pics of w/e the baby is doing. most likely you will get a pretty natural shot of the baby. you'll do fine (:
Reply:As far as camera settings go, unless you know exactly what you're doing put the camera on Auto and leave it there.
Indoors, use flash. Don't get too close to your subject or you'll overexpose.
HTH
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