Fashion photography for adults and teenagers are so common these days as the number of photographers and models are rising every time. How many amazing fashion photographs, how many images are used for advertisements surround us at every place. But what if we say that adult fashion photography will soon have a large and powerful rival? Sounds awkward right? but nowadays children fashion photography is becoming more and more in supply. What is the reason for such demand and what does the future hold for this recently appeared genre?

About Children Fashion Photography

Surprisingly, but children fashion photography is not a new genre in the fashion photography industry. These days, children are as serious chic as adults with the growing number of social media pages of children as you will notice. Also modern parents have zero issues with the taste of children’s clothing. Shops and online stores are full of fashionable clothes that make children look quite modern and fascinating. Almost all modern parents try to follow all trends with their children. And modern clothing market has already understood this drift and engages children into fashion advertisements. That is the how this genre is growing a great demand in industry.

The majority of children fashion photography has been made due to the work of fashion designers. Modern world creates fortunate and pleasing conditions for creating clothing collections not only for adults, but for kids too. They know that a lot of fashion models, who have kids now, are not eager to give up the current trend and they try to engage their children in it. The most fastest mode to buy clothing is on online stores, but the only difficulty with online stores is that we only have access to images and nothing else. Believe us that it is easier to choose clothes with images of children models rather than with adult models. And here again we come to a great demand of kids fashion photography.

Before learning about children fashion industry, let us learn out what does it mean to be involved in fashion industry. What is it and what mystery does it hold? So, fashion photography as a special genre of photography entered the market in the 90’s. At this time, this genre manages to win a great part of the market due to a unvarying interest of customers. From the start of 20’s fashion photos began to beat graphics in printing editions of that time. And at the same time, the idea of a fashion photojournalist made an appearance in industry, and since then they work together like a pair that cannot be divided. Hence now there are very less advertisement without photos done in fashion style.

Fashion Photography of present days majorly means images of clothes and accessories of different fashion houses, capturing images during fashion week shows and much more. Due to a huge mixture of required pictures, adult fashion photographs cannot fulfill the whole market needs. And that is how children fashion photography is highly competitive now.

For sure, the demand of fashion images has changed over years and is still changing. A lot of things has changed, and today the picture shot by the photographer is of bigger value than just capturing particular details such as clothes, hairstyle, accessories and make-up.

Tips to shoot Children Fashion Photography

1. Have Patience

   When capturing children you need to be highly patient. This is because that sometimes you may get a amazing bunch of images and sometimes you will get nothing for a while. This is because of the different behavior of the child and this might cause an break in your photography session. So, this is the basic rule that you need to follow while capturing images of children. Don’t hurry up or force them to do a pose, just hang out with chill mind, play and talk with them and finally, they will make an effort to pose for your camera.
   
   
   
   

2. Let the children run the show

   It’s true that you won’t be able to run each and every facet of the shoot according to yourself so why not let the child to run the whole show? This will be easy and work on it with positive impacts.

   For this, follow these tips:

• Don’t try to command the child, it can spoil the whole shoot.

• Don’t feel that the whole shoot is unsuccessful if the child is not doing what you want. Keep on trying different ideas and concepts.

• Don’t be rude to the child. They will be smiling naturally for your session only if they are happy. You have to keep them homely and also, let them know that the camera is their friend.

• Talk with them about their favourites and keep them energetic.

• Let the session go with the flow. Shoot every moment that a jolly child is doing.

• Be alert to capture every facial expression of the child.

• Have fun with the child and you will be able to shoot the best moments.
  
  
  
  

2. Take a lot of images

   The facial expression of children changes in seconds which can result in loosing a good moment to capture. Hence, try to be fast, speedy and capture bunch of images in the same pose. If you have two or more children to capture in a frame, pay close attention to each kid and make sure while capturing bunch of photographs, so that you get everyone’s expression proper. You can always choose your best photographs from the bunch afterwards.
   
   
   
   

3. Shoot from their perspective

   When you capture little children images, you should not capture it normally from an adult perspective. This makes them look tiny in photographs. Getting low to their eye level so you can equalise the perspective and shoot. With that, enter their zone where they are playing instead of standing far from them. Crawl and play with the child to keep them happy. Note that you should also keep your camera safe in such scenarios to prevent it from any damages.

5. Focus on Focus

   When you are composing subjects that are in motion, it requires the perfect settings, training, and tests. All the cameras have various Focus Modes, so to learn this properly, read your manual once and practice it on daily basis to learn it properly. Choose the setting in your camera for tracking the focus of moving subject. That means the camera will not lock the focus when you click the shutter halfway. What it does is that it only tracks the selected moving object in the frame. Now at next step, if you press the shutter more down and keep on focusing a moving object, then the camera tracks the speed and try to focus the object so that when you click the shutter full down, then the camera will capture a sharp picture. It is difficult to exactly explain that what is the perfect option to capture is, this is because there are various camera brands and different models and each one of them is different with its features.
   
   
   
   

6. Burst Mode

   It is important to capture in burst or high-speed continuous mode so as to take bunch of photographs and not miss any moment. After you set your focus then all you have to do is click the shutter to its end and then hold it for sometime. This lets the camera to capture bunch of pictures. Many DSLR or mirrorless cameras have the property of burst or high-speed continuous mode but it may be different in the frames per second rate they are capable of shooting.

What Is Fashion Photography And Where Did It All Begin?

It all begin in the late 1800s that the Parisian Fashion Houses started fashion photography as a proper professional career. However, it was known as a best industry, and the their decision went on for over a few period of time.

In the last one decade, due to the arrival of social media and various photo-sharing application, fashion photography made its way into the different part of the society. Fashion photography, as a job, is still a great choice.

Today, places like Mumbai, New York, Paris, Montreal, Milan, and Los Angeles are known as the best fashion center in the world.

How Can One Get Started In Fashion Photography?

Here are some points one should consider before entering your fashion photography career

1. Learn photography skills –Photography is a art which needs practical knowledge of the equipment and lots of experience. So, it is highly suggested to get a professional diploma in fashion photography to boost your career.
   
   

2. Build your portfolio –Select and hire some good stylists and models, prepare a theme & mood board for your concept, and start capturing pictures. Choose your best images and display it creatively with a good website and portfolio catalog.
   
   

3. Network – Widenyour contact and hire professional stylists and models. Also, talk and assist with professional photographers who have a good base in the industry. Social media platforms are the easiest and best mode to link with makeup artists, designers, hairstylists, photographers, editors and magazines.
   
   
   
   

4. Start sending your work– Be active and send your best images to editors of magazines and media houses. But, before you send your images, learn about their publishing way and send the best photographs that will suit their needs to minimise the chances of rejection.
   
   

5. Create your style – Onceyou start capturing, you will be tend to get influenced by the professionals. While it’s not bad to re-create when you are starting your career but once you learn the art properly, start creating your own style, and after a while, you will be successful.
   
   

What Are The Various Types Of Fashion Photography Work?

Before we start unfold the various photography projects that you can go for, please remember as a general rule that payment vastly changes when it comes to media groups, magazines and top fashion houses.

Fashion/Beauty Editorials

These are the kind of work everyone usually refer to when they describe about fashion photography. It includes models with striking poses, aesthetics, and make-up. It sounds interesting, but for a amateur, it gives more value to their portfolio than the money in the wallet.

Spec Shoot

This needs to be planned to the end beforehand. The photographer must set up a team of stylist, models, and plan on a theme and mood board before capturing. If the results are proper, then the concept is pitched to various publications with a hope to get featured. If you are good at your work, you can get a great prize.

Commercial Photography

This type of photography is generally done to sell a product. Since this shoot brings gives a great income to the company, they keep a profitable budget for the commercial photography. To get selected, you should either have a beautiful test shoot or great portfolio.

A test shoot is a activity where the team, including the designer, stylist, model and photographer, work as a team to do a normal shoot. This is done to check whether they can work together as a team in future.

What Is The Scope Of Fashion Photography?

The fashion photography industry has observed a good increase in its rate from 15% to 20% in the last few years before the pandemic. Yes the pandemic has affected the industry a bit but with the improving conditions everything will be on track in coming time. And with the growth of digitalisation, everything around is moving to visual, which means there will be high chances and more opportunities for the right talent!

Payments

• Catalog photographers normally get paid on month basis, and the income is relatively much less than the fashion and magazine photographers

• In India, if you work as an assistant for a professional photographers, the starting salary usually ranges from Rs. 50,000 – Rs. 1,00,00 per year

• Once you enter the professional level and start your own firm, the salary depends upon your skills and work and your income can range between Rs. 1,00,000– Rs. 5,00,000 per project.
  
  

Please note the above wage is a estimate figure. Fashion photographers can earn less or high depending upon their work.

Perks

• A opportunity to travel to beautiful locations and have a luxurious lifestyle.

• Opportunity to shoot supermodels, and work with best makeup artists, fashion designers, magazines and media houses, creative directors.

• Different opportunities in terms of experience.
  
  

Career Path

As a fashion photographer, you can work however you like:

• Freelancer

• Start your own fashion photography firm

• Full-time job with the media house, clothing and accessories brands, magazine.
  
  

If you have a primary style, and you can work independently, have a great sense of creativity, and good management skills, you can do super well in this photography career.