Photography Phriday: Photos That Evoke Emotion
Hi and Welcome to my very own edition of Photography Phriday!
I am so excited to host this blog entry because Photography is something VERY near and dear to my heart! I had bought a Canon Powershot S3-Is about two years a go and found that it was a nice balance between a dslr and a POS and once I started to feel comfortable with my photography capabilities I moved on up to the world of DSLR this past January. Soooo anyhow my love of photography runs more for candid photos. I am very much in love with Emotive (or what I feel is emotive) photography. I of course think taking photos on occasions are very important but I also really want to be able to look back in twenty years when my children are no longer at home with me and remember their emotion and thoughts from any particular day. I want to see a bit of their personality in their photos.
How do I do this? I literally follow them around the house ALL day. They are so comfortable with the camera now that they don’t even bother to look at me. Really though I just don’t mind because their is something very charming about finding them in their natural setting. So here’s a mini challenge. Try to find something in your every day routine that evokes emotion. Something that you just KNOW you will look back on in ten years and have that memory just flood on back to you. You don’t have to scrap it, just savor it.
I would love to share a couple of my photos as an example of what I mean if that’s alright.
Thank you so much for looking, hope you have a fabulous weekend!!
Sarah
May 9th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Your photos are so beautiful!
May 10th, 2008 at 2:39 am
wow sarah, these photos are just utterly amazing! I love the one of your son looking out the window and the one with your daughter and baby…these are just so beautiful. i, like yourself, love taking pics of the kids just being themselves and they’re the ones I tend to scrap rather than pics from the big events like christmas and birthdays. these evoke much more emotion in me than all the other major milestone shots in their life. i tend to take lots of portrait shots and just sit for hours and look at them. thanks for sharing yours!