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Digital Portrait Photography - Get the Parents Involved

SUMMARY: Ask parents to help you take digital photos of children who don't want to cooperate.

If a child is afraid of your digital camera or just doesn't want their photo taken, don't be like photographers in many television commercials and work in vain trying to comfort the child while their parents sit back and watch.

Get them involved!

Have the parent sit in a chair and see if the child (if young enough) will sit on their lap. Take a sample picture, and then see if the child is willing to sit alone in a chair without their parent. This may add a little bit of time to your photography sessions, but it's well worth it; the ultimate goal is to get a great photo. Do so and parents may come back again and again as their child grows up.