An adorable video is making the rounds today, showing a little boy who is absolutely thrilled by the sound of his dad's DSLR. Each time he presses the shutter button he giggles uncontrollably, and it's hard not to smile alongside him.
An Australian wedding videographer landed on the national news this week after it was discovered that he was just a high school kid who severely misrepresented his experience level, charging clients $1,300 for shaky, sub-par footage that was nowhere near the quality level on display on his website.
Looking for a digital camera to help a child fall in love with photography? Nikon has announced the new COOLPIX W150, an ultra-durable and waterproof camera that you may want to look into.
Anyone who has ever tried to take pictures of children knows how challenging it can be. They don’t have attention spans, they don’t listen, and they switch from happy to grumpy within seconds for seemingly no reason at all.
My 19-month-old son, Stanley, has learned how to use a camera and to shout out cheese as he presses the shutter. He has a few of my old crappy point-and-shoot film cameras in his toy box to play with, but today I gave him my old Canon G12.
Of all the photographers on the 2016 US presidential election campaign trail, Clive Earle may be the youngest. The 5-year-old boy, who loads and shoots his own film, has attended and documented the rallies of the leading candidates on both sides of the aisle.
When people say 9-year-old Regina Wyllie is a wedding photographer, they're not being loose with the word "photographer." The young photographer is already being requested by brides who hire her pro photographer dad.
Hawkeye Huey is a 5-year-old photographer who has already accomplished quite a bit in his young career. At the age of 4, Huey traveled across the American West and shot documentary photos of things he saw. Those photos gained him a following of over 100,000 followers on Instagram, and now those photos are on their way to being published as a photo book.
Qamar Hashim is an eight-year-old boy who works as a professional photographer in Iraq. He’s a local celebrity, and …
12-year-old Sam Kaye of Radlett, Hertfordshire, UK has become the youngest person ever to earn a distinguished membership to the Royal Photographic Society, the world's oldest photographic society. Kaye became a Licentiate of the RPS by submitting ten of his photographs anonymously to a panel of judges, who were shocked to learn of his age after awarding him with the distinction.
Here's a fun photo project you can do with any small kid (preferably not a stranger's): spinning shots. All you have to do is set the self timer on your camera to automatically take a shot while it's hanging around your neck. While it's counting down, grab the child by the arms and spin them around. If luck is on your side, the photograph will show a clear subject, happy face, and motion-blurred background.
If you want your kids to grow up with the same love of photography you have, you can try …
When American photographer Alex Soth arrived in the UK earlier this year to work on a commission for the city of Brighton's photo biennial, he was told by the customs officer at the airport that he couldn't do his photography work without a work visa, and that getting caught might result in two years of jail time.
Instead of going ahead with the project anyway or calling it off, Soth decided to hand his camera over to his 7-year-old daughter Carmen. The duo strolled around Brighton for a few hours each day, with Alex directing many of Carmen's photographs while Carmen looked to check off entries on the shooting list she made (shown above).
At just 3 years old, young photographer Ruby Ellenby captured the attention of her hometown last month …
The San Francisco Chronicle has a neat story about Ruby Ellenby, a 3-year-old …