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Summary: Will help you take amazing photos of more than just babies..
Review: I flipped through this book at a store and was so amazed. Full-color, great presentation of deceptively simple ideas. His premise is this - - Amatuers take medicore photos because they:
**Don't shoot enough film. (Take more pictures!)
**Don't get close-enough to the subject (use your zoom! get close!)
**Use flash (turn your flash off!)This is a great, easy book with real tips and you will amaze yourself at how much you improve your photos after reading this. The only shortfall, as I recall, is that he doesn't include tips on photo-finishing. A good picture is dimished with a bad print. Some advice on how to deal with your photo lab, how to find a good one, and how to request different types of boarders and papers would be excellent.
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Summary: Just terrific
Review: I got this book as a gift and loved it so much, I've given it myself twice.
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Summary: Excellent book for the "point and shoot" type photographer.
Review: I had been disappointed with my efforts in photographing my grandchildren. After reading and using some of the techniques described in this book I saw an immediate improvement. It is easy to read and results are well worth a try.
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Summary: Beautiful Books
Review: I read this book during my maternity period and I love it. There are a lot of beautiful baby pictures for your viewing and simple ideas for your learning.
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Summary: Like a professional only better!
Review: I recieved this book as a gift when my baby was 2 months old. It took 10 minutes to read (which is all the time I had). Now I am taking pictures of my baby that are winning amateur photo contests. You will find your pictures are better than a professionals because YOU can capture the spirit of your baby better than anyone else! I hope you will be so pleasantly surprised by your new found "gift" of photography that you will want to share your pictures with everyone!
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Summary: QUICK to read GREAT book
Review: I'm a person who buys a lot of books but doesn't always get around to reading them. It is impossible NOT to read this book. The length and especially the format make it irresistable to read it straight through (in less than an hour). And I had a NEWBORN at the time! The ideas are simple but very helpful and the illustrations completely get the point across. Some of the photos are beautiful enough to justify buying the book and there are plenty of shots which you could replicate before you get in the swing of thinking up your own ideas. Even with the first roll of film, I positively amazed myself with the quality of the photos I took of my new daughter and as I really got the hang of it, I was surprised I could be so creative. I emailed some photos to a friend and her coworkers thought they must have been taken by a professional (or one person thought I must have used a "bluescreen!"). People are asking me to photograph their kids! This is a very basic book written in plain (and sometimes funny) language and the ideas are completely EASY for anyone to follow. There is also an advanced section (which is also easy to read) for when you really get into it -- which is easy with this book. In addition, there are some great suggestions for ways to display your photos. I bought a few other books about photographing children and portrait photography at the same time and while I picked up a few brief ideas, the other books are mostly still lying around, largely unread. This is the only book which I have ever bothered to review (when I went online to buy it for a friend who is pregnant). Whatever the age of your child (or even just to improve your photographs of anyone or anything if you are an amateur) -- I HIGHLY recommend that you buy this book.
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Summary: Wow! What a wonderful, useful, easy-to-follow book!
Review: I've been a [semi-]professional photographer for about 15 years, but I've mostly done forensic photography, insurance work, accident scenes, etc. Not a whole lot there to help a soon-to-be dad take a decent picture of a kid. Nick Kelsh gives us three big secrets (one of which will improve all your photos immediately, even if you do nothing else), and a bunch of littler tips which combine into a solid introduction to taking really good photos. Some of these are so simple you will be amazed you never thought of them yourself! I've liked the work of Nick Kelsh in "Naked Babies" and "Siblings," and I was very excited to see that he's sharing some of his vast experience with us. In addition to being a great "how to" book, the photos themselves are also very nice in and of themselves. Kelsh does all this while not overwhelming the reader with technical terminology, and in a format that busy (and tired!) parents can read in one sitting -- yet go back to over and over to improve technique. If you have a kid and you have a camera, you really should have this book!
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Summary: Great baby shower gift!
Review: I've purchased this book twice for baby showers, and it's always been a huge hit! I don't have kids myself, but reviewing the book provided me with a lot of ideas for photographing people in general. A great gift for new parents/grandparents!
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Summary: SMILE BABY
Review: If you are a brand new parant and you just bought that brand new camera, this is the book for you. Some of the tips that are given are pretty simple, but it is usally the simple things that the amatures don't do. You are able to read the entire book in about a 1/2 hour. The tips that you recieve will last a lifetime. The text is very simple and well written, but with the photos that are given you immediately understand what he is trying to accomplish in each section. My photos of my new son have been greatly inhanced. I now have memories and treasures instead of snap shots. If this is your first child or your tenth don't miss this book
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Summary: WONDERFUL book....can't say it loud enough!
Review: If you're discouraged because you're getting OK pictures of your kids, but they're not "special," read this book! It has beautiful, inspiring photographs taken by real parents who have followed the simple tips outlined in the book. If you're fed up because your camera isn't producing the beautiful images you expect it to, read this book before you go buy another camera. I recommend this book to all my friends who have children and to those expecting children. It is fantastic. (The one about taking pictures of your family is great too....same basic tips, but applied a little differently.)
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