by Jennifer Borget posted in Life

Like life, my son is all over the place. It can be hard to get him to sit still ever, much less for a photo. Photographing active kids isn?t easy, but I?ve learned a few tricks along the way to help you learn how to photograph kids in motion and make your active-toddler moments this summer something you can cherish forever.

1. Take A LOT of photos. A huge perk of digital photography these days is the chance to keep snapping and delete the outtakes. Don?t feel like you need to take one perfect picture and be done with it. Set your shooting mode to continuous and hold that shutter button down to take a burst. Later you can go back and delete the blinking and blurry pictures, but you?re more likely to capture a good one amongst many. This photo of my kids playing in the water fountain is one of several I took in a burst. 2. Use aperture priority mode (could also be portrait mode): If you aren?t comfortable shooting in manual yet, or find it difficult to have to continuously change your settings as your toddler runs from shade to sun and all over the place, try using aperture priority or AV mode. This allows you to change your f-stop (the lower the number the more ?blur? you?ll achieve around your subject). My lenses go as low as 2.8 and 1.4. Don?t go too low and too close or their whole face won?t be in focus. You can set your lens to the f-stop your want, focus on your child, then let your camera do the rest. If this is all going over y...