This was going to be a post about practicing running jump photos to prep for a set of dance photo sessions I have coming up, but a certain toddler got in the way – literally. So, we rolled it into another evening photo session with bubbles. When working with toddlers, I suggest giving them something to do. In this case I had a bubble machine. I mean a legit professional grade bubble machine that fires out hundreds of bubbles a minute. They are cheaper than you would think.
Anyway, I got her running and jumping through the bubbles and she was having a blast. It is during this time I got some pretty good candid shots of her. And that’s the same lesson I am going to keep repeating over and over and over again – we humans look great doing things, and we look happy doing fun things so have your subject do both.
Thankfully, events like a party or a wedding there tend to be planned activities so this part is already covered you just have to figure out where you can and can’t be. When I am working with a toddler with bubble machine, I can be pretty much anywhere I want. When I am photographing a birthday party, I will get a lot of frowns if I get right up in the face of the birthday person when they are about to blow out the candles on their cake.