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Title: Professional Children's Portrait Photography: Techniques and Images from Master Photographers (Pro Photo Workshop)
ISBN: 1584282053
Author:
Lou Jacobs
Publicate Date: 2007-06-01
Publish: 2007-06-01
List Price: $34.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: What a disappointment!
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!
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2: For Budding Photographers
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 :)
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3: 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.
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4: 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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5: Mostly fluff, no techniques, decent images, probably not what you are looking for...
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.
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