Fall is a great time to photograph kids playing outdoors!  Let them do what they want – that includes jumping into piles of leaves, throwing them around, or just plain showing them the camera!

© George Simian

You′ll need to be quick on the shutter, and willing to shoot way too many frames, allowing for quite a few to be out-of-focus or motion-blurred, in order to have some great choice to pick from… Keep the camera is aperture-priority, with the lens set at its widest (smallest number), in order to get the highest shutter speed – kids don′t hold still!!! Shoot RAW, to allow yourself the luxury to fix exposure and white balance later, on your monitor.

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