While digital technology has made acceptable photos easy to achieve, this book is about taking exceptional photos that preserve the essence of childhood.You?ll learn to trust your instincts and your own unique vision and discover how to create beautiful photographs in a variety of lighting situations, all while sharpening your observation skills and learning how to involve your subjects. Plus, insightful tips on understanding what equipment is right for you will help you get great results when working with any age group.
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Learn To Capture The Image Of Childhood
Watching children forges a link to our own childhood memories, making us long to freeze the moment. While digital technology has made acceptable photos easy to achieve, this book is about taking exceptional ones — preserving the essence of childhood.
"I hope that in this book you find inspiration and encouragement to follow any urges you have had to make photographs that capture the spirit of a child."
— GINNY FELCH
Learn to trust your instincts and your own unique vision
Discover how to create beautiful photographs in a variety of lighting situations
Sharpen your observation skills and learn how to involve your subjects
Understand what equipment is right for you
Get great results when working with any age group
About the Author
Ginny Felch received a Brownie camera as a child, and her fascination with photography was born. She has earned acclaim for her children's portraits, several outstanding exhibitions, lectures, and magazine photos.
Allison Tyler Jones specializes in portraits of children and family relationships at her Arizona studio. She has co-authored two other photography books and is a respected lecturer on photography.
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As a child growing up in the fifties, I was given a Brownie camera by my father, a newspaper publisher in New England. I remember feeling encouraged by his kind compliments about my sensitivity and composition.
The beauty and nostalgia of New England as well as my mother's eclectic eye for beauty and her appreciation of art and design, were gifts which contributed to my developing eye. While I was an outwardly friendly and social young person, I cherished solitude and daydreaming and entertaining fantasies of motherhood. Perhaps these were the seeds of what would come forth in my imagery.
As a young mother, I was trained as a wedding photographer after years of studying black and white photography. Later, my love for children, spurred by my experiences with my son Zachary, led to an inspired career creating childrens' portraits.
Along this journey, as I exhibited and lectured my way to becoming a Master of Photography through Professional Photographers of America, I was fortunate enough to have been coached by some of the great photographers: Marie Cossindas, Morley Baer, Ruth Bernhard, Robert Farber, Sara Moon, and Josef Karsh.
What motivates me always is the moody and sculptural effect of natural light on a myriad of subjects, creating a sense of place or feeling of timelessness.
I have recently established a digital darkroom, always hoping to avoid what I consider Photoshop cliche, when the effects are obvious. Recently I have been experimenting with photographing appealing textures and surfaces and blending them with an original photograph.This is a spontaneous and intuitive process which has endless possibilities. Another great advantage of my darkroom is the ability to use textured fine art papers and archival inks.
Above all, I seek beauty.
"Beauty has a dignity and poise that takes us beyond our smallness and negativity; beauty brings us in to remembrance. Beauty is the bridge between the real and the ideal. Not everything is beautiful; yet when we develop a graceful and gracious eye, we can find beauty in the most unexpected places." - John O'Donohue
The beauty and nostalgia of New England as well as my mother's eclectic eye for beauty and her appreciation of art and design, were gifts which contributed to my developing eye. While I was an outwardly friendly and social young person, I cherished solitude and daydreaming and entertaining fantasies of motherhood. Perhaps these were the seeds of what would come forth in my imagery.
As a young mother, I was trained as a wedding photographer after years of studying black and white photography. Later, my love for children, spurred by my experiences with my son Zachary, led to an inspired career creating childrens' portraits.
Along this journey, as I exhibited and lectured my way to becoming a Master of Photography through Professional Photographers of America, I was fortunate enough to have been coached by some of the great photographers: Marie Cossindas, Morley Baer, Ruth Bernhard, Robert Farber, Sara Moon, and Josef Karsh.
What motivates me always is the moody and sculptural effect of natural light on a myriad of subjects, creating a sense of place or feeling of timelessness.
I have recently established a digital darkroom, always hoping to avoid what I consider Photoshop cliche, when the effects are obvious. Recently I have been experimenting with photographing appealing textures and surfaces and blending them with an original photograph.This is a spontaneous and intuitive process which has endless possibilities. Another great advantage of my darkroom is the ability to use textured fine art papers and archival inks.
Above all, I seek beauty.
"Beauty has a dignity and poise that takes us beyond our smallness and negativity; beauty brings us in to remembrance. Beauty is the bridge between the real and the ideal. Not everything is beautiful; yet when we develop a graceful and gracious eye, we can find beauty in the most unexpected places." - John O'Donohue
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Gives highlights, but I didn't like depth of field treatment,
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I thought this book was a good read. It covers a lot of issues in photography and gives highlights and good advice on many areas.I was disappointed with their treatment of depth of field, which is what is in focus. They claim that the aperture (f-stop) determines the depth of field, and discuss this for several pages. It is not until page 196 where they mention that focal length affects depth of field. The focal length discussion needs to be in the depth of field discussion. With a wide angle lens you are going to have a long depth of field, and with a telephoto, you are going to have a shallow depth of field. Many authors make this mistake and send amateurs on wild goose chases because they don't have the proper lens to get the depth of field they seek. Below are the notes I took for myself from this book. I hope you find them helpful. Shutter speed can either freeze movement, or cause blurring. The faster the shutter speed, the more likely to freeze motion. On the high end: * Toddler roaming 1/250 * Kids running 1/500 * Child swinging 1/1000 For noise free results use ISOs of 100-400. Common settings are: * Sun 100 * Porch light 200 * Overcast day 200-400 * Window light 400 * Indoor w/o flash 800 and up * Stage performance w/o flash 1600 * Indoor sports event w/o flash 1600 F stop (aperture) affects depth of field * f/8 to f/22 produce a long depth of field, meaning most things are in focus, this is referred to as shooting closed down. * For a short depth of field that makes the subject jump out and the background be more blurry use larger apertures. Most photos in this book were shot between f/1.4 and f/5.6. This is called shooting wide. "Photographs are not made by cameras, which are only tools." Program modes; * Portrait mode is a precursor to aperture priority, sports mode to shutter priority, * f/4 and f/5.6 give you pleasing depth of field for portraits. Larger f-stops, such as f/1.5 and f/1.2 make for very selective focus and make everything else blurry. In the chapter on natural light, called "seeing the light", the authors favor natural light, and sweet light with is the first hour of sunlight of the day and the last hour. High-key photos are light subjects against a light background. Contouring light is 3 times as much light on one side of your subject as on the other side. Specular light is the bright line dividing the highlight from the shadow. The flash in the eyes is called catch lights. There is also a chapter about manipulating light with flash, light modifiers, white balance, and studio lighting. Using your on camera flash as the main light is almost always a mistake. Cosmetic ads are shot with front or flat lighting because it creates a shadowless light that disguises imperfections. Rembrandt lighting is achieved by placing your subject at a 45-degree angle to your light source such as a window. With studio lights, the closer they are to the subject, the softer they appear. On composition, keep it simple, and do so by getting close. Watch for dark things in light spaces and vice versa. Negative space is empty space around your subject that works to emphasize. Never crop off hands and feet. Either zoom in to the head and shoulders, or zoom out to get the hands, or zoom out more and get the whole body including feet. Focal length * 12mm Wide angle - good for large groups * 50mm Standard - this is what the eye sees * 105 Telephoto - often considered ideal for portraits (finally!) * 200mm Telephoto - good for blurring out backgrounds and getting close to action
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Put this wonderful book in your shopping cart and hit "buy now" as soon as you can. I wish that I had had this wonderful tool twenty years ago when I was starting my children's portrait business. Each chapter really guides you through the tools that you will need to succeed in taking impressive images of children. If you take it seriously, and do the assignments, you just might start seeing things in a different light, so to speak. Whether you just want to capture whimsical images of your own child as he passes through the phases of childhood, or if you truly intend to make photography more than a passion, but a business, then this book will take you to your desired level.Every page will delight you with amazing images of children. The various contributing photographers offer individual treatments to their subjects showing you a variety of what is plesaing. Read it, work it, absorb it and find your place in this fascinating field. I can't get enough of the timeless beach portraits found in Chapter 7.
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Having three daughters, documenting their childhood with photographs is a real priority for me. But I really lacked knowledge on how to take good photographs - I always relied on the auto settings on my camera and the pictures seemed so ordinary. In the attempt to learn more about photography, I purchased this book along with a couple of others. This book, by far, was the most helpful for me. I had been having a hard time wrapping my mind around the concepts of aperture and ISO, but this book really helped me understand! Each picture listed the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO, which helped me see what those things were doing to affect how the picture looked. Also, the pictures were so inspiring and gave me tons of ideas on composition. The assignments at the end of each chapter were helpful in developing my skills. The book was very pleasent to read and it's definitely a book for parents aspiring to become better photographers! My only wish was that the pictures also listed what type of lens was used (so that I could buy it and have the lenses that the professionals used!).
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Tyler Jones, Rule of Thirds, Photoshop Elements, Seeing the Light, Wide Angle, Manipulating the Light, Melanie Sikma, Photographing Children Browse Sample Pages:
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aperture priority, composing photographs, shutter priority, other encouraging suggestions, share your favorite photo, enthusiastic photographers, photojournalistic style, prime lenses, short depth, clone tool Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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