100+ Easter pics - how about you?

No photos today. This didn't feel like a holiday.

I have this picture... You can tell kids are out of the house and no grandkids.  

@myboysandme-
I feel the same as you. Especially when my whole gang is here: I take tonsof pics, but bad angles, didn't get a pic of everyone, we are all just sitting around or .....( fill in the blank.)
What helps me most is to not view the pics for awhile & come back later. It seems like I can easily pick out the better photos. I may do that 3/4:times until I've culled them down to the best pics/ manageable lor.
I also try to remind myself to get down on my DGS &; DGD eye kevel...but then it's hard to get back up! Lol
BTW- that's an adorable picture. She looks intent on finding those eggs in her beautiful dress.

At the risk of sounding like Ali Edwards - sometimes you have to accept that the day was how it was. You captured what was in front of you and it’s true, real, natural and to be honest, your beautiful normal in what is a unprecedented time.

The photo that you posted, she looks like a determined little lady in her pretty Easter dress hunting for those eggs! A little girl on a mission.

I think if the angle is something that really concerns you, remind yourself next time to get a little lower. And focus on quality of photos rather than quantity. Rather than snapping away, take the time to look through the viewfinder or at the screen and achieve a composition you’re happy with.

I begged DDIL to take a few of the kids, even if it was just hanging out. She came through for me .

I wouldn't worry about the angle or the perfect smile, myboysnme. I find that kids, when they focus on the camera, tend to get physically goofy or give me that frozen phony toothy smile... I prefer to just point and shoot and take as many pic's as I can when they hardly know I am there. On my phone I take live photos and then select the clearest/best facial expression for printing. On my camera, I am like Dory in Finding Nemo, I "just keep snapping..."

When my kids were kids, living here, I was using a film slr camera, 12-24-36 photos per roll of film. I worked hard to get each shot framed, and most of my pic's of them are more formal, posed. I love that with a digital camera or phone, I can take hundreds of shots in a weekend, and hope I find that gem in there somewhere. If not, I am happy if I can get SOME photo that helps me tell the story I want to tell.

I didn't expect to have any Easter photos, but then things were arranged so that some of the family could safely come here for a couple of weeks, so now I have quite a few. Some are of Easter egg colouring and hunting/finding, but others are of group meal prep and card playing/ jigsaw puzzle constructing, outdoor activities. Then I threw out an Easter egg colouring contest to the other dgk's (sneaky scrapbooking Gramma), so now I have photos from two other households.

No idea when I will get them printed. My MO is to select on my phone (or extract my camera card), then go to a Wallmart kiosk and edit and print photos there for one hour printing. I print LOTS of photos and select which ones I plan to scrap when I have them physically in hand.

I only got about 4.  I missed the egg hunt.  I forgot to get a picture of the table before the meal so snapped a pic after.  




But I did get a picture of the Easter Bunny joining us before pie.

(Yes, we disinfected the table after he went home)   

I tend to take a lot of pictures and sometimes when I'm done I find there still aren't any that are terrific. Sometimes it's the circumstances - people in the way, being uncooperative, or maybe the lighting is sad (often). Sometimes I regret not taking more time to compose and take more pictures, other times I take way too many and can't narrow them down. I agree with patin about letting them stew for a while. Coming back with fresh eyes helps. And I'm story-driven, so if the story is "look how focused she is" or "what a weird Easter" then the best photos are going to be different than "look at the cute outfit." If you want to record the cute outfit and pretty smiles can you go back on a sunny day and do a fake Easter photoshoot?

Taking too many photos is not really a problem - we all have our comfort level with that. As long as you are happy taking them, being part of the celebrations not just the photog, and you can cope with editing and cataloguing them all, that's good. Trying to manage my own massive photo library and find what I want can be exhausting, so there's some value in moderation for me.