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    Top Ten Secrets for Perfect Baby & Child Portraits
    Top Ten Secrets for Perfect Baby & Child Portraits
    Top Ten Secrets for Perfect Baby & Child Portraits
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    Top Ten Secrets for Perfect Baby & Child Portraits

    By Clay Blackmore

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    Today’s cash-conscious families can’t afford to take professional portraits of their children each month. Top Ten Secrets for Perfect Baby & Child Portraits helps camera consumers get into the head of America’s master baby, child, and portrait photographer—and his step-by-step guidance will help anyone take better photographs. Clay Blackmore, a professional photographer and proud father of a young son, shows anyone how to shoot the top baby and child photos with any compact point-and-shoot or DSLR camera. Now parents can take professional-quality photos, preserving precious memories and milestones. 

    Blackmore provides insight, background, tips, and guidelines for his ten favorite types of baby and child photographs, all based on lighting situations ranging from window light to setting up a makeshift home studio with one or more lighting sources. Color photographs from his professional and personal portfolio illustrate each step and provide inspiration. Book Bonus: an exclusive password to a 20-minute online instructional how-to video with the author demonstrating each cluster of photo techniques.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAllworth
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9781621532347
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      Top Ten Secrets for Perfect Baby & Child Portraits - Clay Blackmore

      TOP TEN SECRETS FOR PERFECT

      BABY & CHILD PORTRAITS

      A QUIK-AND-EASY EVERDAY PHOTOGRAPY GUIDE™

      CLAY BLACKMORE

      This book is dedicated to Monte Zucker, Joe Zeltsman, Phillip Charis, and Paul Linwood Gittings—four great friends, great cameramen, and great teachers. I admire their work, and I work to rise to their levels of achievement.

      Photography copyright © Clay Blackmore 2012 Design, Layout, and text copyright © New York Institute of Photography 2012

      All rights reserved. Copyright under Berne Copyright Convention, Universal Copyright Convention, and Pan-American Copyright Convention. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher.

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      Published by Allworth Press

      An imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

      307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor

      New York, NY 10018

      www.skyhorsepublishing.com and www.allworth.com

      Copublished by New York Institute of Photography

      New York Institute of Photography is a registered

      trademark of Distance Education Co. LLC in the United

      States and/or other countries

      211 East 43rd Street, Suite 2402

      New York, NY 10017

      www.nyip.com, blog.nyip.com, and www.decnyc.com

      Cover and Interior Page Design by Keith Gallagher Editorial Writing by Sarah Van Arsdale NYIP Publisher: Jay Johnson NYIP Director: Chuck DeLaney

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for and is on file with the Publisher.

      ISBN: 978-1-58115-994-3

      Printed in China.

      CONTENTS

      Why You’re Here

      Photographing Children: The Long Tradition

      Secret 1: Be Bold—Attitude is Everything

      Secret 2 : Gearing Up—Get the Right Equipment

      Secret 3 : The Silly Dilly—Develop Relationship and Trust

      Secret 4 : Earn Your Chops with Props—Get and Use Props

      Secret 5 : Baby Bright Eyes—Get and Keep Your Child’s Attention

      Secret 6 : Poses Head to Toes-es—All About Posing

      Secret 7 : Garb That Grabs—Choose the Outfits

      Secret 8 : Clear the Clutter—Choose the Right Backgrounds

      Secret 9 : Shining Examples—Lighting Is Key

      Secret 10 : Everything’s Relative—Photograph Groups and Siblings

      Perfect Portrait Pointers—Beyond the Secrets

      Index

      WHY YOU’RE HERE

      This Everyday Photography Guide™ is all about my favorite saying, confidence is key. It certainly applies to photographing babies and children. By the time you’re finished reading and working with this book, and learning all the tips and secrets professionals use to produce jaw-dropping portraits, you’re going to feel more confident about creating great images—all by yourself.

      Confidence comes from success, and success comes from practice. Photography is like any other hobby or profession; to succeed requires practice and dedication. First, you’ll learn the basics of taking great baby and child photos. You’ll start to understand lighting and posing your young subjects, and practicing all the techniques that are essentially secrets to parents, grandparents, guardians, and other non-professional photographers.

      My mentor, Monte Zucker, went to his teacher once a week for ten years to learn how to properly pose and light his subjects. Monte became one of the best portrait photographers in the world,

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