Friday, October 29, 2010

Baby Photography Plan

This is a great little process to use as part of creating your baby photo book - just follow the recipe and you will have tons of killer photos before you know it.

My baby photography plan is a great way to schedule in a series of photo shoots of you and your new baby. I have two children of my own and I know how much impact the new arrivals can have! Best intentions on getting regular photos go out of the window whilst you adjust to the new bundle of joy.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

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Just had to post this, it is the first time that I have seen babies described as small animals and laughed about it 


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Capturing the Right Moment

Taking Cute Baby Photos – Capturing the Right Moment

Babies are cute and cuddly and make their parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, god parents, aunts, uncles and even neighbors very proud. They manage to make even the grumpiest of people put a smile on their faces. What is the problem with babies? Well, just like small animals, they get older and for those that are around a baby every day the differences are not so noticeable but everything about them changes daily.

So how can you keep those cute images for ever? You can take the cutest baby photos that you can and have a permanent reminder. You can also enter baby photo contests with great shots and share the cuteness of your child with the world. But the problem is how do you take cute baby photos, and ones that are suitable for entering into a baby picture contest? The following gives you a few hints and tips for capturing the right moment.

The Baby:

- Make sure the baby is well rested and not hungry or in a bad mood otherwise your baby contest entries will be have to be for pictures of grumpy babies. Often the best time to catch a little one full of smiles and mischief is just after a meal or bath time.

- When you have trouble taking shots of the active child then perhaps consider sleeping shots. Many baby contest pictures are of sleeping babies. This avoids any requirement to “catch” them in a good mood specifically for picture taking. They are also less likely to move just at the exact moment you are ready to take the picture and this is a definite bonus to your picture taking.

- The age of your baby will impact on the type of shots you can take and even the type of camera. For those that are already crawling, you need to make sure that any movement shots are taken with high speed film for normal cameras. If you have access to a digital camera it must be adjusted to correct settings (read your manual). With a digital camera you can delete those imperfect pictures but with normal film you need to be much more diligent with your shots.

Angles & Formats:

- Make sure that you are on the baby’s level whenever possible. Try not to shoot too many shots from above.

- Make sure the photographs are much more of the baby than the background. The cutest baby photos have more baby than anything else in the photo.

- With digital cameras make sure the “focus” is centered on the child and not on any items in the background.

- Try to take your shots straight on to them, these pictures generally look more lifelike and the ability to zoom in is much improved.

Readiness:

- Every minute of every day can be the perfect moment for that prize wining cutest baby photograph. So make sure to have your camera batteries charged and at the ready as babies will be offering up perfect picture moments continually, it is your job to make sure you are ready as well.

Those perfect pictures will be the moments when you are generally not prepared. During the “awhhh” noise that people make when baby is looking particularly cute are the moments when you need to be pushing the camera button. This is very difficult to achieve without being constantly ready with the camera. These special moments are sad to miss, whether your intention is to have the pictures for yourself or for baby picture contests so you want to try to catch these “awhhh” moments forever if you can.

The Camera:

- As above, the type of camera offers up some restrictions with taking your picture perfect shots. The most economical option is of course a digital camera because you can easily look through all those cute baby pictures and decide which to keep or delete rather than having to print all of them. The digital option also means that should you have the prize winning shot for the baby photo contest you can immediately upload or email the photograph for entry.

- Digital cameras also give you the option to change the type of settings easily, as well as being able to simply adjust any settings of the photos themselves on your computer. Depending on the software program you have you can change your photos to black or white or give different special settings to make the shots perfect for yourself or others.

These are just a few hints of how to gain that picture perfect shot, the rest is easy. Just get that cute child of yours to do all the cute things that they normally do and the photographs are bound to follow. If you are interested in baby picture contests entry check out the internet for places to enter your cutest baby photos. Just remember, regardless of the results, your child is the cutest thing and those memories you are collecting with your photographs will be something to cherish forever.

Michiel Van Kets provides article services for Liz Murphy, webmaster of The Great American Photo Contest, one of the oldest and best baby photo contest websites on the internet. To win $2500, enter your favorite baby photos. Great American Photo Contest provides a safe environment where people can show off photographs of their children and win money just for participating.

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Capturing the Right Moment

Taking Cute Baby Photos – Capturing the Right Moment

Babies are cute and cuddly and make their parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, god parents, aunts, uncles and even neighbors very proud. They manage to make even the grumpiest of people put a smile on their faces. What is the problem with babies? Well, just like small animals, they get older and for those that are around a baby every day the differences are not so noticeable but everything about them changes daily.

So how can you keep those cute images for ever? You can take the cutest baby photos that you can and have a permanent reminder. You can also enter baby photo contests with great shots and share the cuteness of your child with the world. But the problem is how do you take cute baby photos, and ones that are suitable for entering into a baby picture contest? The following gives you a few hints and tips for capturing the right moment.

The Baby:

- Make sure the baby is well rested and not hungry or in a bad mood otherwise your baby contest entries will be have to be for pictures of grumpy babies. Often the best time to catch a little one full of smiles and mischief is just after a meal or bath time.

- When you have trouble taking shots of the active child then perhaps consider sleeping shots. Many baby contest pictures are of sleeping babies. This avoids any requirement to “catch” them in a good mood specifically for picture taking. They are also less likely to move just at the exact moment you are ready to take the picture and this is a definite bonus to your picture taking.

- The age of your baby will impact on the type of shots you can take and even the type of camera. For those that are already crawling, you need to make sure that any movement shots are taken with high speed film for normal cameras. If you have access to a digital camera it must be adjusted to correct settings (read your manual). With a digital camera you can delete those imperfect pictures but with normal film you need to be much more diligent with your shots.

Angles & Formats:

- Make sure that you are on the baby’s level whenever possible. Try not to shoot too many shots from above.

- Make sure the photographs are much more of the baby than the background. The cutest baby photos have more baby than anything else in the photo.

- With digital cameras make sure the “focus” is centered on the child and not on any items in the background.

- Try to take your shots straight on to them, these pictures generally look more lifelike and the ability to zoom in is much improved.

Readiness:

- Every minute of every day can be the perfect moment for that prize wining cutest baby photograph. So make sure to have your camera batteries charged and at the ready as babies will be offering up perfect picture moments continually, it is your job to make sure you are ready as well.

Those perfect pictures will be the moments when you are generally not prepared. During the “awhhh” noise that people make when baby is looking particularly cute are the moments when you need to be pushing the camera button. This is very difficult to achieve without being constantly ready with the camera. These special moments are sad to miss, whether your intention is to have the pictures for yourself or for baby picture contests so you want to try to catch these “awhhh” moments forever if you can.

The Camera:

- As above, the type of camera offers up some restrictions with taking your picture perfect shots. The most economical option is of course a digital camera because you can easily look through all those cute baby pictures and decide which to keep or delete rather than having to print all of them. The digital option also means that should you have the prize winning shot for the baby photo contest you can immediately upload or email the photograph for entry.

- Digital cameras also give you the option to change the type of settings easily, as well as being able to simply adjust any settings of the photos themselves on your computer. Depending on the software program you have you can change your photos to black or white or give different special settings to make the shots perfect for yourself or others.

These are just a few hints of how to gain that picture perfect shot, the rest is easy. Just get that cute child of yours to do all the cute things that they normally do and the photographs are bound to follow. If you are interested in baby picture contests entry check out the internet for places to enter your cutest baby photos. Just remember, regardless of the results, your child is the cutest thing and those memories you are collecting with your photographs will be something to cherish forever.

Michiel Van Kets provides article services for Liz Murphy, webmaster of The Great American Photo Contest, one of the oldest and best baby photo contest websites on the internet. To win $2500, enter your favorite baby photos. Great American Photo Contest provides a safe environment where people can show off photographs of their children and win money just for participating.

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Best 5 Photography Tips To Take Better Photos

5 Tips to Prepare For the Perfect Baby Photo Shoot
If you are looking to improve on your digital photos, then just follow these all important basic 5 photography tips. You will soon be taking perfect photography every time you snap away on your camera.
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Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Newbies Photography Tips

Another good article with a couple of nice tips for taking good photos

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This article explains a few things about photography, and if you’re interested, then this is worth reading, because you can never tell what you don’t know, especially when you want to join some of forums and discussions about this topics, then this article will be useful for you more or less, in order for you to get some of new ideas from the discussions you have joined.

As there are so many photography novices are very concerns about their techniques to get good quality photographs. As we all know that there is no one who can be called the photograph expert, who could come to us and give some tips and techniques for novices like us, unless you pay a bit of money to join photograph school. What we are doing when we take photo graph is to find the best quality camera, and believe that that magic functions of the camera (as advertised) will help us to get good quality pictures without having other specific technique of photography.

In fact, this is quite true but just some part of the whole truth. We take photograph by ourselves only when it is informal occasions, such as when you are traveling to other places with your friends or take photographs during family part. However, in our life time, there are still so many occasions that need formal picture and may need a photograph professional to take care of this stuff, the example of there occasions are weeding ceremony or wedding reception, graduation ceremony etc. That is precisely why at most important occasions people hire the services of a professional photographer.

Therefore, we may need a professional for these occasions but in the mean time, the cost for hiring a professional photographer is very high and very difficult for someone who has very limited budget. So for many photograph newbies, then try to find photography tips in order to help them to get good quality pictures without paying fortune for professional. Here is some tips for you, which I have gather some of them for professionals that I have known recently.

Firstly, try to get everyone into the picture frame. It is the fact that sometimes when novice taking photograph, they did not ask everyone who want to take a picture included in the picture frame, then when the film is developed there is someone is not included in the picture and this is really ashamed. For you, as a beginner this mistake is usually happened, Therefore you have to make sure that you guide everyone to include themselves in the frame before taking a shot because they will never know until the photographer tell them.

Secondly, when you shooting outdoor, many of beginners have trouble with sunlight direction which really effect to the quality of picture. You have to make sure that you will not shooting directly with the sunlight, which will create the dark shade on the picture. You can see that there’s practical value in learning more about photography. Can you think of ways to apply what’s been covered so far.

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Seven Ways to Get Pro Results From Your Compact Camera

Another excellent article from scotbourne - this one talks about how to get the best from your Compact Digitial camera, so as I think that most of your are using CDCs to create your baby photo book it probably a good share

-Take care, Andy

For some people, a serious compact is all the camera they will ever need. In some cases it’s all the camera they can afford. Lastly, some people just prefer not to drag all the heavy gear that seems to come with shooting a DSLR. In all of these cases, a good compact camera can indeed produce pro results. My final piece of advice is simple. If you want to get pro results from your compact camera – treat it like a pro camera

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

School photos you don’t want to miss

This article talks about slightly older children and the fun you can have with School photographs - maybe they would work in your baby photo book - sort of a "next phase" section

Once you’ve got your school photo collection, turn it into a beautiful photo book for you, your family, and close friends. You can even use the pictures for a class yearbook – perfect for parents, classmates, and teachers.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Clutter Be Gone

I just love Scott Bourne's work - this is a great article on de-cluttering your photos which is really useful for budding baby photographers - your kids probably have tons of toys and the temptation is to have them in your pictures - well sometimes it's a good idea and sometimes it's not

The beauty of a single simple object is that it provides a clear focal point for the eye. If you have one simple, single object filling the frame, then the viewer doesn’t have to guess what you want them to look at.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Photo Book Review – Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sisters Guide for Shooting from the Heart

I'd never heard of the Shutter Sisters before,but wow what a great concept and fabulous execution - they make a great point that any photo genuinely taken from the heart is going to be spectacular and is probably one of the things that will make your baby photos really stand out.

The Shutter Sisters are a group of women who operate a photography blog. Ten of the sisters have joined forces to create this book. Each of the sisters writes one chapter on a subject including such genres as Portraiture, Stillness, and Togetherness. Each chapter is illustrated with images taken by the writer and other sisters. There are also excerpts from the Shutter Sisters’ blog and sidebars telling us to “See It!” with shooting data and “Shoot It!” urging us to experiment with a certain type of photograph.

And here's their website - awesome!

Adorable Babies

Oh my god! can you image if your baby photo book was full of snaps like this