Blending advice with example images, this guidebook marshals the wisdom and experience of 15 seasoned professionals to present a comprehensive resource on one of the most challenging subfields in the portrait-photography genre. Chapters feature the varied approaches and practices of each photographer while covering topics such as helping children warm up to the camera, choosing clothes for subjects to wear, and how to deal with kids who simply will not cooperate. Each professional also discusses the business techniques that have helped make his or her studio successful—including tips for pricing, hiring assistants, and effective marketing strategies to reach a target audience.
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"The guide includes a variety of strategies for helping children warm up to the camera, building the lighting setup and portrait concepts." —Studio Photography
This guide promises to help you improve your photography business by taking your images to the next level. —Shutterbug
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Lou Jacobs, Jr., is a professional photographer and a regular contributor to Rangefinder. He is the author of 30 photography books, including How to Start and Operate a Digital Portrait Photography Studio, Photographer’s Lighting Handbook, and Studio Lighting. He lives in Cathedral City, California.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this book because one of the photographers is a favorite of mine, and I quickly found a couple others that I love. The book brings together different styles of photography, so there is something for most of us who work with infants/kids. Each chapter highlights a different photographer, so if you find you don't care for someones images, you can easily find someone you do like. They are all asked a series of the questions, but the answers vary. Some are pretty detailed where others are vague.
The images on the cover do not represent the photographers well enough. There are some AMAZING images in this book.
I gave this four stars because it's not at all technical. It does address what equipment everyone uses, with a brief discussion on lighting (some were more detailed in their answers than others,) but since the author is covering such a wide area, "Children's Portraiture", you find out a little about a lot of things. Some ideas on marketing, studio set up, working with infants/kids, etc...
Again, great overall book. Pointed me in the right direction and now I feel like I can push forward and learn more about what I found interesting and further my professional career. For that reason alone it deserves 5 stars, but since "techniques" is in the title, I think it fell a bit short. I really did love this book and would buy it again.
The images on the cover do not represent the photographers well enough. There are some AMAZING images in this book.
I gave this four stars because it's not at all technical. It does address what equipment everyone uses, with a brief discussion on lighting (some were more detailed in their answers than others,) but since the author is covering such a wide area, "Children's Portraiture", you find out a little about a lot of things. Some ideas on marketing, studio set up, working with infants/kids, etc...
Again, great overall book. Pointed me in the right direction and now I feel like I can push forward and learn more about what I found interesting and further my professional career. For that reason alone it deserves 5 stars, but since "techniques" is in the title, I think it fell a bit short. I really did love this book and would buy it again.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Mostly fluff, no techniques, decent images, probably not what you are looking for...
January 9, 2008
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The subtitle of this book is a bit misleading: Techniques and Images from Master Protographers. There are a lot of interesting images in the book, but no discussion of how to achieve the look and feel of those images in your own studio. The book reads like a scripted interview of 15 different working pros on various topics: Their background, their studio, their equipment, whether they shoot digital or film, some useless naritive on lighting, how they book sessions, etc. It makes the text read like an interview of Scott Baio in Teen Beat magazine. (I feel like the interviewer is next going to ask the photographer what their favorite color is). All of the responses are too broad, vague, and undeveloped to be of much value.
There also doesn't seem to be a lot of variety in the type of work the photographers that were selected do. They all see themselves as 'mid to high end' and seem to see themselves as 'fine art' or 'photojournalistic'.
When you get down to it, this book is mostly fluff. If you are looking for posing ideas, lighting ideas, concrete ideas on running or promoting your studio, you won't find them in this book. If you are looking for a general narrative on how children's photographers feel about being a photographer, I guess you might get something out of this book.
There also doesn't seem to be a lot of variety in the type of work the photographers that were selected do. They all see themselves as 'mid to high end' and seem to see themselves as 'fine art' or 'photojournalistic'.
When you get down to it, this book is mostly fluff. If you are looking for posing ideas, lighting ideas, concrete ideas on running or promoting your studio, you won't find them in this book. If you are looking for a general narrative on how children's photographers feel about being a photographer, I guess you might get something out of this book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I was really looking forward to this book and bought it without reading the reviews first. I wish I had read all of them before making this purchase.
Well, another reviewer had it right: mostly fluff, little substance. I have to second that opinion of this book. The images are fantastic and there is some decent advice to photographers but the book doesn't promise what it implies in the title: Techniques. You get a few tiny tidbits here and there but nowhere near what I would have liked or would have expected considering the full title.
You can think of this book as basically a 14 chapter interview of 14 different photographers. That's all it is. A question is asked and answered in much the same fashion as a magazine article of a celebrity. The question is written out, which is then followed by the answer and not all the answers are as in depth as you might like.
It didn't meet my expectations to the point that I'm going to return the book and I got it only an hour ago!
Well, another reviewer had it right: mostly fluff, little substance. I have to second that opinion of this book. The images are fantastic and there is some decent advice to photographers but the book doesn't promise what it implies in the title: Techniques. You get a few tiny tidbits here and there but nowhere near what I would have liked or would have expected considering the full title.
You can think of this book as basically a 14 chapter interview of 14 different photographers. That's all it is. A question is asked and answered in much the same fashion as a magazine article of a celebrity. The question is written out, which is then followed by the answer and not all the answers are as in depth as you might like.
It didn't meet my expectations to the point that I'm going to return the book and I got it only an hour ago!
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For Budding Photographers
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Published on May 25, 2008 by Adrian Estoquia
You need this book!
If you want to be inspired then you need this book. The photographers stories are great!! It's one that I will read over and over for the Techniques.
Published on March 4, 2008 by Stephani L. Foster
Very well done!
After reading several books on children photography this last year, THIS is the one that I was most satisfied with.
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Great book, awesome advice!
I bought this book as a guide for my new photography business and it has proven to be a superb resource for me. Read more
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