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Today was our second day photographing at a local preschool.

We love photographing at preschools, because you just never know what will happen. How silly do we have to be to get that good smile from the little one that is in front of our camera? Can we crack the rough exterior of the biggest frown on a little one – you bet. Photographing at a preschool gives a whole new challenge on what to do when children do not want to smile.

What do we do during a Preschool Photo Session? Check out this video, where we let the children use our self serve option. Just a gag by the way – we do not have enough insurance to cover our photography equipment that will be handled by the preschool children.

There is more then one way to capture the image of a shy child. Our way – make him work for us first. He sees that its SO easy to be in front of the camera that he jumps right in there after he takes the image of someone else.

Nicole and I will try almost anything to get a smile from children. Most of the time these children are in the front of a camera (and the stranger taking their picture) for the first time. Having a screaming child is something that we have to contend with every time we walk into a preschool. Does this stop us? Or get us upset? NO WAY. This is just a test of what we came up with to “trick” the little one into giving us a nice smile, that is sure to please his/her parents.

This video is just an example of what we do to capture a unique image of a child. As you can see the camera is triggered by a little boy that would not get his picture taken initially. After taking the picture of a fellow student, he could not wait to get his picture taken.

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Nicole and I just finished photographing a local preschool – Union Avenue United Methodist Preschool. We were there two days – yesterday and today.

The children ranged from 3-5 and boy did they keep us on our feet, well actually I was sitting down so that I could photograph them in the little chair that we used as a prop, and we did 2 great poses that parents will LOVE. Nicole loves trying to make the children smile, even at my expense. It doesn’t bother me at all, just as long as we can get some great expressions from the children that their parents will love.

We are photographing another preschool in town tomorrow and Friday. More fun with the little ones. It’s great to see familiar faces from last year, and getting recognized by the children that we photograph as we are shopping or just going around town is so great too.

Everybody smile!