Give your kids cameras

cur · Post by **cur** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:35 am

Since decent digital cameras have dropped in price and you can pick up clearance one for really good deals all the time there is no reason not to do this. When my kids were around 8 I started giving them my old digitals and then as gifts. So they have been messing with pictures for about 5 yrs now. They can also use my little pocket one whenever they want. So anyway, we throw their pics on the computer, we look at them. After a month I go back and throw away the junk without them knowing, but there are absolute jems in the mix all the time. You get cool pics of stuff you would never think of shooting and also lots of pic of people an places at cool angles and weird perspectives.

The reason for my rant is I took some pic off my camera of my project guitar and found this.

Thought it was cool. One of my middle school girls took it.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:51 pm

How cool is that? Nice composition and everything.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:57 pm

After he spent an entire weekend transfixed by my brother's boyfriend's iPhone camera, we bought my five year old son a camera for Xmas: ironically, entry level Fuji cameras are now cheaper than Fisher Price My First Cameras, so he's got some 12 megapixel thing. He takes such lush little pictures: sets up toys and things from round the house into little still lives, plus there are loads of pictures of people from his perspective (ie. very short). It's lovely. Hooray for digital photography.

cur · Post by **cur** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:52 pm

benecol wrote:After he spent an entire weekend transfixed by my brother's boyfriend's iPhone camera, we bought my five year old son a camera for Xmas: ironically, entry level Fuji cameras are now cheaper than Fisher Price My First Cameras, so he's got some 12 megapixel thing. He takes such lush little pictures: sets up toys and things from round the house into little still lives, plus there are loads of pictures of people from his perspective (ie. very short). It's lovely. Hooray for digital photography.

This is exactly what I am talking about. It amazes me the things that they take pictures of and how cool they are.

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:18 pm

Did the same with my daughter. Unfortunately she kinda stopped using it.

cur · Post by **cur** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:35 pm

Ankhanu wrote:Did the same with my daughter. Unfortunately she kinda stopped using it.

Well it goes in spurts. Mine are all into the Facebook and so they are doing more now a days and posting to their friends.

jesseetc · Post by **jesseetc** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:58 pm

Yeah, I've kinda procured the family camera and have been taking pictures lately. (I'm 17.) Digital photography is absolutely awesome, although I miss when everyone on MySpace had a photography album - Facebook isn't as art friendly of a medium by nature, but it's still really cool to see the armature photography on my feed.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:51 am

My daughter plays games on my iPhone while I am driving and when I plug my phone into the computer, I am always find pictures she takes in the car.

Lucamo · Post by **Lucamo** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:44 am

Cur upload moar

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:07 am

seriously, this is one of the best thread ideas ever. more parents need to step up!