A Three Year Old Child Takes Photos

[nico]

I think that encouraging kids to improve their artistic capabilities (even with music, paiting etc,,) is something helpful for their growth. Your daughter shows good attitude (the very first shot you posted is quite funny and it's also pretty the one with child+door) and your help will let her understand if she really likes photography.
Go on, Raid, go on.
Bye.
Nico

 

[raid]

I don't know if that is exactly how I would characterize the differences. But maybe. All I'm really sure of is that boys tend to potty train later... that's where I am now. 😉

Brian,

Men are basic in nature and so are boys .
Good luck with potty training. Often, the kids decide when things will happen.

Raid

 

[raid]

I think that encouraging kids to improve their artistic capabilities (even with music, paiting etc,,) is something helpful for their growth. Your daughter shows good attitude (the very first shot you posted is quite funny and it's also pretty the one with child+door) and your help will let her understand if she really likes photography.
Go on, Raid, go on.
Bye.
Nico

Thanks, Nico. We are placing both children into a better childcare system with better care for arts and languages.

Raid

 

[raid]

Great, Raid! I had my first camera when I was five. Shot my first photo when I was four (my father still has it; I still need to find a way to get a copy -- it's a photo of my mother, father and newborn sister).

Lost my camera when I was about 8, then nothing really much happened until about four years ago. Your daughter will thank you for encouraging her.

Five y.o. sounds about right. Keep 'em coming!

Gabriel,
I would love to see the photo(s) that you have taken when you were a child.

Raid

 

[Rodinal Addict]

Last spring in my photo class, our instructor brought in a speaker who had made a long term project of a "toddler with a camera". He started out giving a 1 1/2 year old an aout everything digital camera, and just let her roam around her own life taking photos of what ever struck her fancy. There were, of course many blank and blurry shots, but some were strikingly good, and were displayed in an exhibition that gets updated every year or so.
The ohotos had a definite and unique perspective, and were easy to recognize as objects in HER world; Moms bosom, a bottle, moms knees,
toys, etc.
I'm kicking myself now, i can't find the photographers name. If I can find it, I'll pass it along.

Robin

 

[raid]

Robin,

This is an interesting photo project. It reveals how a child sees her world around her. I willencourage my daughter to pick her own photo targets.
Maybe you can recall eventually the name of that photographer who
thought of the photo project with a child.


Raid

 

[Rodinal Addict]

The guys name is Douglas McCulloh. If you google it now, you'll find his latest project, the worlds largest pinhole photo, taken in an airplane hanger at El Toro airbase here in Southern California. I couldn't find anything about his toddler project, but will keep looking.

 

[ywenz]

I'm wondering if the basic instincts that is within us to recongnize good composition and colors in a photograph, is much more in tune in the brains of a young child? Could it be possible that a child is more capable of noticing well composed images while looking thru a camera's viewfinder?

 

[raid]

Maybe so. It is worthwhile investigating, isn't it. Children can often tell things that we do not expect them to be able to.
Raid

 

[captainslack]

She's got potential!!! That second one is nice and the one of your other child in the doorway is really good. Definitely a good idea to get her a camera. Keep on encouraging her!

 

[raid]

Captain: I will do so for sure. I take photos and my wife paints, so maybe our daughters got some genes in that direction.

Raid

 

[micromontenegro]

Congrats, Raid. My father did the same for me (only instamatic intead of digital) and I will never thank him enough. By the time I was 8, he actually lent me his (now mine) Contax IIIa quite often! No, I didn't get to be a great photog, but ended up with a lifetime hobby.

My own kids, kidding around:

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[raid]

How old are your kids and when did they start out in photography?
I gotmy dad's Zeiss Contina when I graduated from highschool. Before that, I had an Agfa Rapid. It gave small 4x4 prints from a cartridge type film.

Regards,
Raid

 

[Michael I.]

I will train my future children to do wet printing\CLA\bulk loading and they will be my photo-needs slaves buhahahahha 🙂

 

[raid]

I am not planning to have my kids "help out".

Raid

 

[doitashimash1te]

Raid, how is your (now 4 year old) daugther doing?
Still likes taking photographs?

 

[Kent]

Hi, Raid!

Your daughter seems to be really talented!

But a great idea and what a funny coincidence!
I just gave a camera to my little daughter (15 months) two weeks ago, a digital webcam (VGA) since this is so far the only cam where she can press the shutter button. 😉

I wanted to see some kind of subconscious photography. Of course a 15 months old cutie does not "know" that she takes a picture, she just likes the "beep" when she pushes the button. 🙂
You know, she really likes that: "beep...beep...beep!" What you regularly get is not a single photo but a series. 😉

Well, by chance, some of her photos were really nice:

#1 - sheep (behind our backgarden)
#2 - clouds
#3 - Here she turned around the camera to see what's on the other side. The pic shows me and my daughter.

She definitely will get her own camera when she turns 3!

 

[shadowfox]

My daughter can use my OM-1 with authority 😀
She knows where to find the shutter release and she can advance the film! ... and if I let her, she'll dry-fire the camera all day 😱

of course the motor-drive on the Nikon FM2 throws her off a bit as she kept trying to press the shutter release on the camera instead...

She'll be three in a few months.

Raid, the girl got talent! digital camera would be too limiting for her soon 😛

 

[raid]

My daughter just turned four, and I need to reintroduce to her the camera. I will see if she likes to use the camera this weekend.

Raid

 

[Xmas]

Ive done this to little people.

I think it is like learning a 2nd language they see differently.

Parents show me picture post card and say why did she take this, I ask what is wrong with it, it is a proper postcard, parents look at me strangely, It is ok she is normal now (a grow up) and cannot take photos to save her life.

Noel