While photographing children is important and quite rewarding I find it difficult as their attention span and interest tends to diminish after several seconds. I was once told by a photographer proper that for every year of their life, children will grant a photographer 10 seconds of their attention!!! This is a picture of my daughter aged 10 months taken at home. There was no way she would look at the camera for me despite repeated bribes and promises. It was almost a deliberate avoidance of her beleagured fathers attempts to capture her image. However once I placed the camera on a nearby table she looked straight at me and engaged for several seconds, once I picked the camera back up it was stone walls again....Conclusion; Shoot candidly rather than waiting for that portrait!
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