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scene — taken by one of the authors, by the way — who overlooked the fact that when taking close shots feet and knees should not be allowed to stick out toward the camera.
Making pictures of little children, and the making of pictures by younger boys and girls themselves, will take on especial enjoyment when the pictures are a record of games or sports or definite action rather than just posed groups. One of the earliest and best sports which children of a certain age have1 ever found is "dressing up/' whether it is in the clothing of their elders or as Indians or cowboys. It is times like these which ought to be pictured rather than all pictures of the young members of the family in their school or "Sunday" clothes. Besides, the mere excuse of dressing up makes it handy to invent action to photograph. And the dressing up will not stop with the youngsters themselves. No little girl ever had a cat, or no little boy a dog, that wasn't subject at some time or other to submitting to a togging out in at least a funny hat and jacket,
If it is an elder taking children rather than the children taking pictures themselves, the elders, even if they are the parents of the subjects, will still have to remember to take plenty of time to establish confidence and naturalness in the minds of the children, in order to be able to get the best pictures of them. I have seen a parent get terribly exasperated when its child didn't fall into the spirit of being photographed the minute Dad had the camera out of its case and ready to shoot.
The first thing babies and real small children will want to do is to play with the camera itself, so you might as well give them the carrying case to chew, or throw down on the lawn a few times and get that subject of interest exhausted before starting to photograph. Then when the baby or the small child has found its center of interest somewhere else that's the time to begin taking the pictures.
If the pictures are being made by a grown-up, recording the activities of his children, or the children of his neighbors
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