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Children's Portrait Photography Handbook

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This book has outstanding photos and ideas. It really opens up the horizon on how to photograph children. We took some great shots of our 5 month old son after reading the book. However, the book assumes that you are a serious or professional photographer and neglects to explain some of the technical aspects in easy to understand terms for a novice wanting to merely learn how to take better pictures of children. Overall, though, definitely worth it for the photos and ideas.

I am not a professional photographer, just so we get that out of the way. I recently graduated from a point and shoot digital camera that, while better than any camera I had owned previously, was not the nice unit I have now. I also have three little girls who are photogenic. Now, I have a book that has turned me into a better photographer of children. It was so easy to understand, so inspirational and so filled with wonderful examples that it sucked me in and spit me out with the knowledge to photograph my children anywhere, anytime and enjoy beautiful results. The interviews with professionals gave me insights that I never would have obtained elsewhere.
Now I take the pictures for my sister and for a few friends. Amazing book.

This is not a good education book for beginners. It does show a lot of nice pictures. But no details of how these pictures taken. It gives many suggestions for better pictures as many other photography books do,but lacks the step-by-step instructions of how to apply those rules for nice pictures. It is more like a collection of the pictures of the author's friends. I found it is like most of other photograph books, no details on lighting (natural or studio) or composition or posing. For the most critical elements like lighting, posing and composition, it, like most other books, gives the principals only.
The book "Professional Secrets of Natural Light Portrait Photography " is much better because it tells you frankly the lighting and composition and posing of every pictures taken by the author.Douglas Allen Box 's book really offers something solid for improving photography.

The book has a lot of good pictures and examples but I was hoping for more step by step instructions on what equipment I need and how to pose babies and children.

This book is a helpful resource, although it seems to be a group of articles written separately, rather than cohesively for this book alone. I would have liked to see more overall organization.

For studio and outdoor portraits, this book has a lot of good information in a wide range of aspects in photographing children. From technical information and advice to how you can manage children during sessions to obtain good results. Note: everything sound very easy as it is written, but when you get hands-on, you will need to do your homework. Great portraits included as example. Author does a beautiful job in the portrait business.

This book is a great guide to help new photographers learning the world of portrait photography. I am just learning myself and found a lot of great advice, as well as a ton of tricks to use with small children. I use it all the time, it's a great buy!

This book was very informative for me and helpful for me in posing my subjects and making my own portraits better. I wanted to know how to keep a childs attention and this book gave me that information not all photos are always based on a subjects attention sometimes you get your best photos when you catch the subject off gaurd. This book is so informative and awesome I recomend it to anyone who is a serious photographer of childern.

Book is full of great and useful tips on how to photograph children of different ages and much more.

I am studying/practicing to become a professional children's photographer and I found this book to be very helpful, informative and insightful. The pictures in the book are just beautiful. There is little to no information about the camera details for each picture, as in shutter speed, aperature value, etc. However, the book is well written and is easy to read. I highly recommend this resource for aspiring portrait photographers.