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Professional Children's Portrait Photography: Techniques and Images from Master Photographers (Pro Photo Workshop)

Professional Children's Portrait Photography: Techniques and Images from Master Photographers (Pro Photo Workshop)
By Lou Jacobs

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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.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #47102 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-06-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 128 pages

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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

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

What a disappointment!2
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!

For Budding Photographers5
This product is a Question and Answer style book where photographer will give there insights, methods, techniques and equipments used in shooting children/baby portrait. Nice book :)

You need this book!5
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.