focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/100
aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1600
flash: none
Sometimes the composition, angle or settings may not be ideal, but when you’re photographing children, special moments are hard to catch. Hopefully you’ll be able to fix things in post processing but things like composition aren’t as easy to correct unless you have room to crop. [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/250
aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1600
flash: none
Composition is important when you don’t have a lot of room for a crop. Using a prime lens (that has no zooming) can be restrictive when you don’t have a lot of leg room. I think this shot would have turned out better if it [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/250
aperture: f/1.8
ISO 1600
flash: none
Ah, what to do when you only have a few dim light bulbs and no natural light? Setting the white balance to ‘incandescent/tungsten’ (the light bulb icon) and shooting at a high ISO is an option. A noisy image (due to high ISO) is better [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/125
aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 1600
flash: none
This was taken in the evening with pretty much no available light. So I pumped up the ISO to the max, which is 1600 on my camera, and shot wide open at the largest aperture because my little child likes to move about. I could [...]

focal length: 50 mm
shutter speed: 1/250
aperture: f/1.8
ISO: 800
flash: none
This image is an example of using the foreground and background as a frame. It’s important to keep the horizontal lines straight, unless you deliberately tilt. To help you, some eyepieces have guide lines you can use to keep your ‘horizons’ straight. You can [...]