Feex’s Photography

Nothing comes ahead of digital photography. This is the recent revolution that has taken place in the modern photography. Are you enjoying its benefits? Of course, there is no any exception that you are using the full benefits of photo processing. Look at your surrounding and you will see the gifts of digital photography as well as photo process work. The advertisements on the street towers are the finest example of digital photo processing. It has really changed our expectations for clear and lovely photos.

Photo processing has been in full use for personal and commercial purpose. Taking out photo prints is a day to day activity. But continuing with the old procedure for taking out photo prints means wasting your money. The local photographers would charge you high amount of money for a single photo processing work, whereas with the same amount of money you can get multiple photo prints from various websites that deal in online photo process work. So, will you still continue with the local photographers for your future photo processing work? Hope you would no continue this.

The photo processing websites let you enjoy many facilities than your local photographers cannot meet these expectations. If there are a few bucks in your wallet, than you need not to worry about it. Check out the price that is charged by most of the photo processing websites. There is no slightest exception that you will be surprised at the affordable price tag. Just with these few bucks you can get a good number of websites.

Do you have a desire in your mind to become a photo designer? If you have it in your mind, then get it bloomed by visiting a well-known photo processing website. These websites are uploaded with unique software that help people to take out photo prints with their favorite designs. Hurry up and log on to such websites and share your beautiful photos with many of your friends.



Written exclusively for FeexFoto.com by Thomas Jack

Do you have a digital camera? Have you taken loads of digital photos? If so, sooner or later you will probably want to print your photos. Did you know that online photo printing is one of the best, most economical ways to print your photos? Its’ really easy to do, and the results are outstanding. Here’s how. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.

1. Take Good Pictures

The results of digital photo printing will only be as good as the pictures you take. If your pictures are poorly framed, or blurry, they won’t look good no matter how good your online photo printing service is. These days, simple point and shoot cameras can produce outstanding images with a minimum of fuss. All you have to do is understand a little bit of how the autofocus and auto exposure work-and when they won’t work. Auto focus has a hard time with moving targets; it sends a beam of light to the object you want to photograph and adjusts the lens, then checks again; this can cause it to adjust focus again and thus be blurry or wrong. The key thing you need to know about auto focus is where the actual focus will be. Generally you will have to consult your camera’s manual for that, but usually there’s some sort of indicator in the viewfinder screen. Those two basic technical considerations will help you get your pictures technically correct, but the aesthetics are up to your talent and imagination.

2. Put Your Pictures Online, Perform Any Necessary Editing

The next step is to choose an online photo gallery. Make sure your choice of online photo galleries offers the features you need. The most important ones are unlimited storage for your photos, and, of course, online photo printing. Storage is important because photo files are very large, and they will quickly fill up even a quota that seems far more than adequate. These days many sites offer free unlimited online storage so there is no excuse for not having enough storage.

Many online photo galleries offer photo-editing tools in their online galleries, so you can get the best out of your image before online photo printing. Generally the tools will be quite simple-cropping, some simple color correction, etc. for most hobbyists, this will be quite adequate. If it is adequate for you, you will be able to use it for free on sites that offer this and you won’t have to learn a complicated and expensive photo editing software suite like Adobe Photoshop in order to improve your images for online photo printing.

3. Order Your Prints

The next step is the easiest. Use the online form to order prints. Decide the size, and decide whether you want glossy or matte finish, make sure you can afford the price of the prints, give them your credit card number over their secure websites and click go. The prints will be near-photo quality on photo quality paper, considerably better and in the long run, cheaper than you could print at home using an unreliable inkjet printer.



Written exclusively for FeexFoto.com by MJ Johnston

Digital photo printing services are being offered by flooding number of websites on the Internet. Anyone can find an online store rendering such instant and affordable online photo developing services. Those sites boast off and hype to provide assured quality services and deliver seamless prints of photos. But, the question is are all of these websites stick to their value for quality, customer satisfaction and moreover those promises they make while alluring customers? Digital or online photo printing is nothing but the process in which pictures are uploaded to the website offering photo printing solutions. And thereafter, those online photo photo developers’ solution providers use advanced photo printers to get the print outs of selected images and finally, email those photos to customers.

Digital photo printing services are known to be affordable and of high quality too due to online processing of printing.

So, if you have gone out and by chance brought printing ink and paper, then chances are that you will not be able to lay your hands on cost effective digital photo printing. You had better search a website that can help with some high-end quality photo prints. Searching online can help you know where you can get the best digital photo printing. There are various websites that cater to the demands of those who like high quality digital photo printing.

These websites give you the facility of uploading and editing your photos from anywhere – whether home, cafe, office, or restaurants- provided you get an internet connection. You can also have them home delivered.Some of the facilities that these websites can provide you may include contrast and brightness adjustment, colour saturation manipulation, image resizing, and red eye reduction.

While selecting an online digital photo printing website, you must do some homework and research work. One way to go about it is to look for review articles on these websites. If you stumble upon some, it means you have chosen the right website that has reputation in the market. Also check if they can print on shirts or trousers. If they provide this service, you can use it later on when you may like gifting your near and dear ones with some printed clothes.

You may be happy that you managed a very lucrative deal on your camera, but does the same applies to online printing costs. You also need to compare different online digital photo printing costs.



Written exclusively for FeexFoto.com by Thomas Jack

Photo Developing- Don’t be ignorant about the ways that can truly change your current life. Photography is important in our life and at present people are enjoying it more than they used to enjoy in the past. Cost-effective is the bull’s eye for all people. These days photo developing has become very easy and you should enjoy these in the best possible way. It is quite bad to put your ears at the people who say that photo developing is very costly. Speaking something which is not true. Do self verification properly and decide whether photo developing is costly or inexpensive.

Thanks to the digital technology that has changed the methodologies of taking photos. These days people find many websites that are helping them in getting the fine photo prints that even the local photo shops are not able to provide such classic photos. Visit a couple of websites that are branded in products and services related to photo developing. In the end, you will find that you have come to the right place.

The cost factor decides everything. So, you should know the cost factor of photo developing as well. You will be surprised to know that within a few bucks in your wallet you can get excellent photo developing services. Check out the ads on photo developing on various websites or search for a while in the search engines. Finally, you will have the kind of photo prints that you have been always expecting for.

If you own a company and has something to do with photos or ads, then you can get in touch with photo developing websites. These websites offer you many online free services like free online sharing of photos, self-designing photos etc. apart from just photo developing services. Get the techniques out of these well-known sites and capture the fast moving times in wonderful memories.



Written exclusively for FeexFoto.com by Thomas Jack

Selling digital photos (stock photos) can be a great way to make an additional income, and is as easy as listing your available digital photos on a stock agency’s website. It needn’t take too much of your time, and could make some money from some pictures you may have thought about just deleting. So to get you started here are 5 quick and easy tips to sell digital photos online.

1) Find a stock photo agency willing to display your digital photos for sale. Search Google (or your favourite search engine) for a term such as “selling your photo”, “stock photo agency” or “sell digital photo”. If you open links in a new window, you will be able to compare the agencies terms, fees, and requirements.

2) Select the agency you wish to use to sell digital photos with, and then sign up. You will probably need to confirm your email address, and may have to wait to confirm other details to protect the digital photo agency from potential copyright infringements, and to ensure your own privacy isn’t being infringed upon by someone falsely using your details.

3) Review your available stock digital photo’s to sell, (stock photos simply means those that you have sitting around your hard drive in stock) . Pick out some of the best in terms of subject, clarity and eye catching quality, as you don’t want to put up poor samples which have no chance of selling.

4) Upload the best of your digital pictures to your chosen agencies site, this will vary from site to site, but most will be as easy as following the online instructions, and browsing to your digital photo folder, and to the photo you wish to sell online. Click the upload button and you will then have your digital photo in your online portfolio.

5) Be Patient, once you have some digital photos listed to sell, listed in appropriate categories, you need to sit back and wait for someone who is looking for a photo in your category. Provided you have gone to an agency site which is popular with publishers looking for stock photos, you should soon be able to sell your digital photos online.

There is much more to being able to successfully sell digital photos online, but these 5 basic steps will help you to get started. Once you have sold the first of your digital photos, you will see how easy it can be, and then you may want to look for further information, but for now just get started with the above steps, and see if selling digital photos online can work for you.



Written exclusively for FeexFoto.com by Douglas Titchmarsh

Managing the challenge of narrow depth of field in highly reflective surface environment

By Avi Roth

In the field of commercial photography, be it in motion or static, every category presents a challenge of its own. With jewelry photography, an object of highly reflective surface (HRS), the challenge is amplified due to its relatively small size captured mostly in close-up environment with shallow depth of field, surface complexity (specular), and limited ways of lighting due to space restriction between the lens and the object. Jewelry photography demands knowledge and experience to overcome the compounded difficulty of controlling reflections and limited depth-of-field (perceived sharpness) in close-up jewelry photography.

In addition to the problems mentioned above, the success of reproducing and obtaining a high quality digital image of jewelry will depend on the equipment used in the reproduction process. There are basically three types of camera systems one can employ:

a. Digital SLRs like Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Sigma with good sensor resolution (6-14 MP)

b. Medium format cameras like Hassleblad, Rollei or Mamiya with a larger sensor digital back (11-39 MP)

c. Large format view cameras like Sinar or Toyo with live video studio solution (11-39 MP)

The purpose of this article is to discuss some of the principal challenges posed by the complexities of reflective surface reproduction, particularly in digital close-up photography. Below I will present some solution to these challenges from the lessons learned and experienced in my daily practice and from my own research as to what is the best, fastest, and simplest solution to an otherwise complex assignment of jewelry photography.

Jewelry surface (HRS)

The most difficult task of all HRS digital captures is jewelry. In essence all jewelry objects are built with reflective qualities of various degrees and can be compared to mirrors. Mirrors are objects with good specular or diffused reflection; that is, image forming qualities. Imagine pointing your lens towards a mirror at a close distance. What will you see? Exactly, yourself holding a camera and your surrounding area. Jewelry objects in essence embody three kinds of mirrors: flat, convex and concave determined at random by the jewelry’s very shape. Curved mirrors magnify or shrink images therefore distort the reflected image. Most jewelry objects typify spherical mirrors structured in an interesting relationship of concave and convex surfaces.

Solutions:

Understanding the basic reflective properties of mirrors can be helpful in solving some basic problems related to jewelry photography because of their common reflective properties.

a. Jewelry reflection has no physical existence. Conceal the camera or choose a shooting angle for the jewelry to reflect a controlled surface such as a white board or soft box.

b. The location of the camera/lens matters in terms of how and what will the jewelry reflect. Use longer lenses to extend the working space between object and lens.

c. When light strikes the jewelry surface the angle of reflection equals the angle of in incidence. Place your light source indirectly to the angle of reflectance.

d. The reflection on the jewelry is half the size of the reflected image - the jewelry is always halfway between the reflected image and the reflection. Creating and placing the jewelry inside a large soft tent enables the application of various light sources to minimize and control unwanted reflections.

e. If the jewelry surface is flat and perfectly shiny, specular reflection will result. If the surface is rough, diffused or distorted reflection will result (bending) Place the jewelry in a light zone of several loosely arranged large white panels, and by modifying their position relevant to the object will enable the control of light source there by controlling unwanted reflection.

Overall Sharpness:

A narrow depth-of-field (DOF) can create spectacular effects when photographing insects, flowers, etc., but in jewelry photography if the entire image does not appear in full focus, the image becomes an unusable one. Unusable in the sense that some parts of a ring or bracelet needed to provide useful data for the purpose of presentation will be unacceptably less sharp than other parts. For example, the front part of a bracelet (focal plane of the lens) is in sharp focus; but as we move towards the back region the loss of sharpness becomes unacceptable (blurred). DOF and image sharpness changes with sensor size. Smaller digital sensors obtain maximum sharpness at wider apertures (f:8-f:11) while larger ones at (f:11-f:22). Capturing small objects like jewelry via close-up photography presents a problem since only a very narrow portion of the object relative to the focal plane will be acceptably in focus. One way to extend depth of field would be to take images using a narrow lens aperture. This solution has a serious disadvantage. Small apertures bring more light diffraction, degrading the image resolution. This is one reason why many consumer digital cameras (with very small sensors) won’t let you stop down past f:8, while studio solution sensors are often stopped down to f:32 and beyond.

Solution:

The application of double exposure solution or photo stitching in jewelry photography partially solves the limitations of shallow depth-of-field. The technique known as “focus stacking” is another. Using double exposure when limited depth-of-field is available is a powerful technique to help photograph and present jewelry.

Depth-of-field determines what part of the jewelry has the sharpest focus and its amount. Unfortunately, at larger apertures depth of field limits attention to a particular focal points i.e. the top of a ring, while minimizing details at the shank. A greater depth-of-field would presents all the elements of a ring sharp at once, relatively equally. Depth-of-field is determined by the following: lens aperture (ƒ-stop), lens focal length and your distance from the focal point. In jewelry photography, of these three the aperture has the most influence and the least modifiable. Therefore to increase depth-of-field and achieve total sharpness over the entire image, move farther away from the jewelry by using a longer lens.

1. Capture two images, first focus slightly below the ring top, then a second focused lower at the center.

2. Bring both images into two separate layers in Photoshop to combine the two into one sharp image.

There are of course other solutions such as the Helicon Focus. This program is designed to manage the shallow depth-of-field problem in close-up imaging. It also aligns the images that change their size and position from shot to shot. This function is especially important with close–up jewelry photography.

However, the most pragmatic answer to the depth-of-field challenge is the large format studio camera. These cameras such as Arca Swiss, Linhof, Sinar, Fuji, Calumet or Toyo have expandable bellows, tilt and swing capabilities, and are allowing the capture of high-quality images with extended depth-of-field beyond the optical limitations of the lens.



Written exclusively for FeexFoto.com by Avi Roth

Many people like to collect fashion photos of famous people, quite often from the past. Sometimes this fashion photography involves black and white prints instead of color prints as we know today. That doesn’t mean that only vintage photography is in black and white because there are some people who prefer black and white prints for certain shots. Although color prints make a photograph appear more realistic, sometimes black and white photography captures an image or a scene in a way that makes it look more professional or more captivating.

 

One of the areas in which we see black and white photography frequently is in black and white art prints. You may also find them in Audrey Hepburn photos or Charlie Chaplin photos because during the time those photos were taken, color photography was not even developed. In fact, color television was not yet available, at least to the average person. Movies were still shown in black and white and many television shows did not show up in color until the late 60s or early 70s. Black and white photography often has more image clarity than color because you don’t have the distractions from the light that often occur with color.

 

In fashion photography black and white prints are used frequently especially when a model is trying to build a portfolio. That doesn’t mean that professional photos are always black and white photography, but there are some situations that call for some black and white prints. In fact, fashion photos will sometimes have both black and white prints and color prints. This method may be less common with digital photography since one no longer has to buy the film to produce photographs and digital photography offers much of the clarity that was missing in color photographs processed from a film camera. Condenastore.com can provide information about different types and photographs and the best place to find them.



Written exclusively for FeexFoto.com by Jordan Travis

There are many ordinary buildings and interior designs in the world, but there are also some elegant architectural designs that should be shared with others. Digital architectural photography services produce images of these beautiful places and structures for many to appreciate. Many people travel to see great skyscrapers, but many other people do not have the means to see these structures in person. Digital architectural photography services capture the images of these beautiful sights for all to see. A massive building during the day and at night can be awe inspiring so the world is more interesting because of digital architectural photography services.

Digital architectural photography services provide images of many of the skyscrapers in New York City so people in China view these great buildings. On the other hand, there are many magnificent structures in China that most people in New York City do not get to see except for digital architectural photography services. The Taj Mahal in India is one of the most exquisite buildings in the world. Many people around the world visit, but these people are a small percentage of the world population. Digital architectural photography services have provided images of this wonderful structure for people around the world.

Digital Architectural Photography Services Display Interiors

Digital architectural photography services take many people into the interiors of beautiful buildings. Everyone loves to decorate their homes in special ways. They also like to see how others decorated their homes. Since people cannot get around to see all of the beautiful homes, digital architectural photography services provide them with pictures. There are many magazines and newspapers that use these images in their publications. They show the homes of stars and the rich people. Usually they show the most magnificent interiors available. The readers can enjoy an elegant lifestyle vicariously for a few moments.

Digital architectural photography services give people ideas to improve their own homes. Some of the digital pictures are too extravagant and expensive for the average person, but others are within their budget. People can view these places that are usually the work of experts to get some great ideas. There are many of these publications available so people can get many different ideas. Some of the ideas will also provide information where similar materials can be obtained. Photography has been used for hundreds of years for education, and digital photography has made education even easier than ever before.



Written exclusively for FeexFoto.com by Roland Jefferson

One thing that I discovered during my experience with digital photography, after 20 years of shooting film, and I teach at this point all the numerous seminars that have been in hundreds of other professional full-time, digital photography is that it is very well suited to the portrait photographer. So why are we the last to jump on the band wagon? Many commercial shooters have known and mastered the use of its digital activity for much longer than the portrait photographer.

My guess is that we are afraid. Fear of the learning curve and I fear that the quality is just not there unless they spend an ungodly amount of our hard earned cash in some scary looking gigantic series of confusing and impractical, not to mention “how will I learn Things to use this “team.

Truth is, you can get away with as little as a 3.5 megapixel camera. I know, I used my Canon D30 for the first eight months of my trip digitally. This camera created more memories, more sales and more wall portraits that I never imaginable.

Whoa, wait a minute that you say, carpets? There can be! When I seminars routinely show many large samples wall in full view of everyone, with some of the biggest signs that he created with the 3.5 megapixel camera, and the reaction I get is usually disbelief.

Listen. The quality is there. I tried over and over again and I know that anyone can reproduce the same results. Yes, even with a 3.5 megapixel camera.

You have an open and close to beware, that’s all. We have a collection of images in our study, even large tapestries caught with our dinky little D30, and who are “drop-jaw” impressive. I know of other photographers who have had amazing results as well. I know that it works and the file size is secondary.

There are many reasons, but I work with the master list. Here are:

* Quality. The quality of the captured images with a high optical quality, well exposed and well-raised is more than enough, even if you strip JPEGS. Yes, JPEGS. Over 90% of the more than exhibitions 30-40000 put my camera through all the years is the way to shooting in JPEG. Why? Why anyone in their right mind shoot in this kind of “low quality” mode? The answer is simple: it works.

I like to compare the shooting of JPEG picture film. It was slightly softer (but not even noticeable to the human eye) and silent, ideal for skin tones, right? Furthermore, the slap “softar” filters in front of these outrageously expensive lenses and further degrade the image. Do not bother. Shoot with a good lens, in JPEG mode, display properly, raise and create as usual, and we all come together. Add any effect later.

See what else portrait photographers have been doing with regard to their finishes in addition to the degrading images of the image “softars.” We tweak the surface of the print, sometimes heavily. We mounted canvas. Add texture sprays.Oils. Linen rolled … And continues.

My point is simple. Portrait photographers do not need to create the very acute, the highest resolution images available. If they have in the past, it always has degraded the image through these other means. Which is rather ironic, no? You can still shoot in RAW, if you wish, but it is not really necessary.

If you need the absolute highest quality image capture would have been shooting with Kodachrome 64 or Velvia by 4 “x5 camera. But no. JPEGs work. Many I have 30″ prints, and even a 70 “print, Que was captured in JPEG format. And they are incredible. You can too.

* Control. People want their photos quickly. We live in a world in unity-and minutes count. In our study we can create a slide show for our meetings and we show to customers within 20 minutes of each branch. Customers love it. They get to see the results instantly. If this struggle is essential in the fight against human nature. We want, want, want, and what we want to see sooner than later. Sales go up, the client is already in the studio ready to see the images, and willing to spend. Its abundant evidence that when displaying images before, and to create large images projected, which is a bread with digital sales rise. Digital gives the portrait photographer more control over the sales process, and ultimately, that means more profits.

* Retouche. Let’s be realistic, people want to look good. What once took hours and a lot of aggravation with spray booths, smelly and dangerous lacquers, it is now possible with ease. Even when I decided to farm all my editor because I had had enough, it still took weeks or months, and large bills retouching.

Not to mention the loss of control he had over aspects of retouching. It is up to the subjective interpretation of the artist retouched to enhance the images of the way I wanted to retouch. Now, with some basic knowledge, and all the years of experience of retouching all transferred to the new darkroom, my computer, I can easily tweak to any degree that I like. In just minutes. With all surprising results. This ultimately leads to the satisfaction of a basic need that must satisfy our customers, their vanity. They want to look good, and they want quickly.

* Innovation. I could go on for days when it comes to what the new products, ideas, services, sales processes, packages, etc., etc. .. I have been able to create, because of digital photography.

Suffice it to say for now that I am excited and live with my passion for photography and on the possibilities. When you apply the power of digital technology, and get a handle on it in your workflow, you can create new and exciting products like never before.

What I have seen and experienced every week in our busy little town study. The ultimate test is reduced to the net profit, right?

After all, we are in business first, the creators and, secondly, right? Right? Are you with me on this? We are in business to make money and survive. We need new and exciting angles, ways to stay afloat, so we can pay our bills, keep bankers happy and provide for our families. Nobody can predict how it will be total precision digital photography, ultimately evolve, but my bet is in dollars with it all the way. I am not taking any chances.

I remember when nobody color film and paper was presented as a major commodity? I do not, I was just a wee lad, but I have heard many stories about the study of the owners to close their doors and on the packaging because they did not want to keep up with demand and the latest film fashionable color and color Added paper has. Dinosaurs. Every one of them. His loss, all because of a thick head and badly guided egos. Not being a dinosaur.

My most important discovery: Who is the real expert!

Ultimately, the real expert in our business is not ourselves, or our fellow men. The customer is the real expert. They open their hearts and their wallets and fork over hard cash earned by the memories we create for them. Would you mind if it is shot in the JPEG? In RAW? Will Care if we use the bigger, better, stronger, faster and the software of computers?

Of course not. Upon reaching their clients in the head and listen to the conversation that follows these things are totally irrelevant.

Much more important to her and to us, is the basics of good photography. In a whirlwind of technological change nothing seems to be never the same. Truth is, the basics of good photography will never change. That’s where everything starts.

Maestro and you have 99% of their challenges mastering digital photography.

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Written exclusively for FeexFoto.com by ebet sanders

The field of child photography is challenging but also both enjoyable and profitable - if you like children. Don’t bother pretending, if you really don’t. You may fool a parent - but not the little one.

Tips to help are:

The techniques used in most other fields of photography do not always apply in child photography. The phrase “hold it” or “freeze” carry very little weight with children. They typically do as they please and if they please. Your assignment is to anticipate what a child may be about to do and capture it.

YOU can turn this into your advantage: Since children don’t always do what you want them to do, or what you expect them to do (actually they rarely do!). A solution often is: don’t expect them to become a cooperative little adult merely because you want to take their picture. Trick them - expect them to act like children. Don’t expect anything in particular. DO this and you can enter the fun and profitable field of child photography.

Know your stuff -

Before you start booking sessions with children you must know exactly what you are capable of doing - what your camera is capable of doing - what all your equipment is capable of doing. Operating your camera and equipment must be second nature. Have your style of photography down pat, so when you start a session your mind is on the child(ren). This takes your complete focus. This is not the time to be fiddling with you camera, or trying to figure out your light setup. Children take 100% of your concentration. For some children the entire shoot may only last 10 minutes - though you feel you have just run a marathon - so you have to be able to get in position , get the most cooperation from the child, get great shots. At times, this has to be done very quickly, BUT you cannot make the child feel they are being rushed.

Know your subjects -

With children, you must expect the unexpected. At different ages children are capable of doing different things. The more you know what they typically do during some of these stages, the better images you are going to capture. And the happier you make your clients - which, in turn, makes you financially happy.

During a session photographing children you can get a variety of poses, expressions and antics. In no other field of photography are you liable to get such variety. The more you learn about little ones the better child photographer you will be. Children are not just children until they become adults -they come in all sizes. Between four months and four years you can place them into quite a few categories: 4-6 mos, 6-12 mos, 12-18 mos, 18-24 mos, and then you can lengthen out the age span. Awareness of these ages are needed to help you - the photographer - be aware of the limitations children (especially little ones) have.

Listening to the parent can help toward a successful session.

You can learn specific things about their child that will make it or break it:

Are they afraid of certain things or sounds?

What are their special likes?

Do they like books?

How comfortable are they with a stranger approaching them? You do NOT want to spook a little one; the scheduled time may not allow for you to win their confidence.

Be ready with that camera when you first introduce something new -you do not get a second chance to get first reactions!

In most areas of photography a tripod is great for sharp photos. However with child photography you do not always have such a luxury. Once they reach the moving around stage, a tripod limits your ability to capture expressions and poses. Be mindful of your camera settings - keep that shutter speed fast enough to prevent blurring - and be ready to move quickly!

Child photography allows for close-up portraits as well as the child engaged in some activity - taking their socks off - in a box / tub with toys - climbing on or out of something. There is really no limit. As you continue to gain experience in working with children of various ages you will become more adept at learning what typically works with different age groups.

Child photography is a challenge - but don’t worry sometime it turns into children photography. Mom has twins - big brother / little sister - maybe three little cousins. The list goes on! Imagine two sister and they both have triplets! Other than the obvious difficulty of getting multiple little subjects in any semblance of position, conducive to a memorable photo you need to bring everyone’s eyes to a central focal point. Tricky, but not impossible. Adding something NEW to catch their attention, at the moment you press the shutter, can work. Use this sparingly, because when child photography turns into children photography getting all their attention on the same thing is quite a feat. The beauty of digital is no limits to the exposures you take and you can take a quick peek on the spot.

Parents can be quite helpful during the photo session. Children often are more confident with a parent nearby. Also, do not overlook the value of older brother and sisters. They have a relationship with the little one like no one else! Often they can get their little brother or sister to giggle, make faces, hold things and a host of other things that may be exactly what you need. Plus, you have the opportunity of including more subjects in the photos, which translates into a larger photo package for the customer!

As you advance in child photography you will want a lighting setup and a backdrop. A three light setup - consisting of a main light fill light and a background light - is ideal. However if you are just beginning you can do great photography with a lot less. Experiment, and add as needed. If you are using a backdrop keep the child at least four feet from the backdrop (if possible). This eliminates shadows and prevents the backdrop from competing with your subject.

Take your act on the road -

You can do child photography at the park - on the beach - in the backyard, just as easily as in a studio or home - maybe more so - and nature will take care of the lighting for you, as long as you select open shade.

Items to have on hand:

Depending on the ages and whether you are shooting indoors or outdoors you need a supply of items to catch and keep their interest and that look great in a photo:

rattles

feather dusters

soft toys

dolls

hats

mirrors

a telephone (the bigger the better)

a big whistle

duplicate toys (for twins & overly competitive little ones)

treats & snacks

There is much more to be written on child photography. For more information on this, and other related subjects, you may want to read the article

http://www.you-can-do-great-photography.com/child-photography.html

This article authored by: You-Can-Do-Great-Photography.com



Written exclusively for FeexFoto.com by David