Photographing Children
17·02·2006 | Permalink | Comments

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photographer
Eddy Chew
 
 
Eddy Chew aka LeoChimaera lives in Penang. He's a corporate advisor, and run his own advisory and training company firm based in Penang and Singapore.

He first experienced photography when he was 9 years old and fell in love with it ever since.

During his free time, he'll seek out new photo opportunities, whenever he is at home or abroad.

Presently, he's coaching his 7 years old daughter photography as she has shown interest in the field as well. She accompany him in his photographic outings when in Malaysia. 
loc.
Georgetown, Pulau Pinang
tags
girl, play, playground

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Picture was taken at the children playground at my neighbourhood. That’s my daughter having a good time… (I think)

Narrative:
As promised yesterday, I decided to take my daughter to the beach today. Before heading to the beach, she wanted us to swing by our neighbourhood children’s playground for her to “check-out the equipments” (as she put it), because she claimed she had not played there for a while! Since we have plenty of time, I obliged her and I was also thinking it would be a good opportunity for me to exercise my camera a bit.

As many photographers know, taking photographs of children is anything but easy. They normally don’t stay still enough, in one place long enough for us to photograph them “properly” and even when we ask them to pose, we can tell straight away that the picture is not going to turn out as we expect them to be. With that in mind, I just let my daughter play freely and I followed her around and tried to anticipate her next move or direction, shooting endless pictures hoping to get JUST ONE GOOD SHOT! The weather and lighting conditiondid not help much today as the usual sunny sky with bright sun was missing.

To my surprise when I checked the photographs upon downloading them into my computer, I found some good pictures. Pictures, which tell the story of how she felt at that moment, Just like the picture above… capturing her hesitation and perhaps a little fear as she crossed the “rope bridge” high above the ground, framed by the rope bridge itself.

Photography helps me in capturing moments like this and allow me to savour the moment over and over again in the future. It also allows my daughter to actually see the moment, which she’ll not be able to recall from memory alone. It’s a record of her childhood, a little treasure which I am able to leave behind for her…