This year I began playing around with a new type of film called moving portraits. A Moving Portrait Film is usually centered around one main subject, capturing details of that person and their environment. I love making these of children. It captures them and their entire personality in the developmental stage they are at. I spend about an hour filming and photographing them and then we do a sort of interview. The younger ones make these interviews really fun with their unpredictable answers.
My first moving portrait was earlier this year of Shepherd. This time, I captured a 2.5 year boy, named Maverick. It was so fun filming and photographing him playing and doing what he does best. We sat down for the interview – which is hard for me because I have to try to not laugh, while taking video and audio! But boy was he hilarious with his “NO, YOU!” answers.
When I arrived, Mav was cooking his own eggs. I love that about this family, they give so much room for toddler independence! Once he was done cooking, he went to eat with daddy. and then off he went to play!
The best part was after my put my camera away, he had to potty and off came the pants. I sure did whip it out and photograph the scene!
Maverick | June 2022 from Jennie Pyfferoen on Vimeo.
