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Kids and balloons
by Lilian ·
(My future footballer)
Put a bunch of kids below 7 years old, a pile of balloon and a huge empty space like a stage and you can have so much fun capturing their excitement. However, I do not like the idea of people taking photos of children unless he or she is part of the parents from the group. Otherwise, I feel it is an invasion of privacy.
It is almost impossible to take any decent photos under normal, warm lighting because the kids move so fast and the slow shutter speed caused all the photos to be blur. In the end, I have to use the flash.
My point and shoot camera has a mode for taking kids photos which uses faster shutter speed to avoid motion blur. But if the place is dark, it is not possible to use. So, what I do is to place the camera, either a point and shoot camera or my DSLR on a stable place and keep shooting, with the hope of getting a few nice ones out of many.
