{"id":279013,"date":"2020-10-06T20:41:03","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T00:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=279013"},"modified":"2020-10-06T20:51:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T00:51:17","slug":"encourage-kids-to-shoot-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/06\/encourage-kids-to-shoot-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Encourage Kids to Shoot Photos!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My (now) 5 year old niece Amelia is now great at making photos. I encouraged her from a young age (around 2-3) and the secret is this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just give them a camera, teach them how to hit the shutter, how to view photos, and let them go crazy!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Watching kids shoot photos has re-sparked my creative intuition and approach to photography <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Photos below by Amelia. Note how epic her low angle is, and how curious she is about shooting everything. No rules, no limits. She shoots anything and everything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re scared your kid is gonna break or drop your camera, buy them a rugged RICOH camera (the ones they use on job sites, etc). Or just give your kid your smartphone camera with a rugged case attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Why kids prefer cameras with physical buttons <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Funny thing I noted with Amelia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    She prefers shooting with my RICOH GR II \/ RICOH GR III when compared to an iPhone. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    Why? The physical feedback when the shutter clicks. And ability to turn on and off the camera. And the Ricoh also fits better in her hands … the phone is too thin and slippery, and lack of haptic buttons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    So surprisingly, RICOH GR II\/III as a really good camera for kids to shoot with! And kids like to use the LCD screen. And generally speaking, kids have zero interest in shooting film cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My (now) 5 year old niece Amelia is now great at making photos. I encouraged her from a young age (around 2-3) and the secret is this: Just give them a camera, teach them \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-wide.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ggv4-283-of-303-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279013"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279021,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279013\/revisions\/279021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}