Many of my clients are hoping to get the perfectly posed and executed images with perfect smiles and eyes looking directly in the camera. But are IDEAL photos really the ones where children are looking at the camera? I hope this blog post will be a nice read and food for thought for you. At the beginning of my photography journey I believed that I should always aim for perfect images with all models’ smiley faces directed exactly at my camera. It was the same for children and family photography. I always did my best to achieve this result, although as you may guess it was not always easy. However, whilst going through my own kids’ photographs, I realised I appreciated something else more tha
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