Carmen is four…  she’ll be five in December.  I’ve been passing my Canon xSi to her since she was three, and letting her capture whatever catches her eye.  It’s fun for her, and an interesting exercise for me in patience, trust, and a new eye in composition.

I usually set the camera to a shutter speed, aperture, white balance and ISO that will work with the area that we’re hanging out in, then pass it over to her.  She’s been amazingly careful and respectful with it, and loves to take photos of people and things that she enjoys looking at and wants remember later.  I will cull photos if they are very similar or very fuzzy, but I’ve kept about 90% of the photos that she’s taken.  I run them through a very simple photoshop contrast balance and I don’t crop them at all.

She loves to look at the photos she’s taken, and can almost always remember where and when it was.  

Here is a link to her flickr set, and then some of my personal favorites: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elizebeth_joy/sets/72157625550359310/

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