Girl in red

[Mike McCarty]

Here are some recent photos I took of a little girl. These first few are square compositions that I think look pretty good.

These were shot with my Nikon D70 with the kit zoom lens. It was about 10:30 - 10:45 in the morning. The sun was a little higher than I wanted but we managed.

When I photograph hyper kids, like this little girl was on this day, I will put them as close to the light as I can and give them as much direction as I think they will tolerate. After that I just get myself in position and wait while looking through the view finder. For the first 10 seconds you won't see much that is worth taking because they are usually mugging, fidgeting and what not, but eventually their attention is drawn away from you and they begin to look natural again. This is when you have about a 10 second window before they completely loose it and you have to start all over again.