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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

USING SPARE CAMERA, PARE TIME TO MAKE EXTRA CASH

MY EXPERIENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY MAKING MONEY

There are a lot of articles which are talking about how to make money from your photograph and camera. The reason I am writing here is to give out my true experience of using photograph to make money. I hope this article has some practical help to those people who have interests to use their spare time and spare resource to generate some extra income. This article is not a sort of advertisement or course to teach you to get quick money. It is only a practical guide to the people who like to try some different things, of course, if you have some photography background and art talent, I am sure you will be very interested in my experience. If you invest some serious energy and time on what I did ( I am a lazy person), maybe you can make a good living though this.

This journey started when I got my first digital camera. It is first time for me to have so much passion to take photo. My first digital camera is SONY Cyber Shot 5M pix compact digital camera. I took a lot of photos and stored them in my hard drive. One day, when I clean my hard drive, I ask myself, how I can deal with so many photos. Some of them are actually pretty good, like professional photograph. I used Photoshop (an image process software package) to process some of them and decide to sell them to make some money. And I found a stock photo web (I will introduce it later) and uploaded them. After several weeks, my photos start to generate income for me. Several months later, the photograph becomes my major hobby. I spent a lot of money to buy Canon EOS 350D digital camera to take more photos.

You must ask what can I do if I haven’t got any digital camera? Do not worry, just use your existing resource, I believe got 35mm film camera on hand. These days, a multi-functioner which includes scanning function doe not cost you over 100 dollars. You can get one scan your hard copy and digitalize them. Or, you just buy a digital camera. Digital camera get cheap and cheap today. It will save you a lot developing cost and you can make any amount of practice. You must say I have no confidence to make good photos. I will say, I can do it, you can do it, everyone can do it. Your photos do not have to be perfect as a professional photographer did. And there are lot of references can help you to start take photo. For example Digital Photography Beginners Guides is a really good 4-parts e-book to teach you step by step.

You must ask what I can shoot. You can shoot everything eg. people, static things, animals, pets, flowers, architectures, abstract things and so on. My experience is take my camera to everywhere, thus, I can take photo any time. If you are specialized in some realm, it could be even better. There also some resources you can make reference such asNew Pet Photography EBook

Now, I will introduce the stock photo web I used for sell photos. If you search on search engine, there are a lot of stock photo website now. I tried some of them. I think this is the best one, which is FOTOLIA

There some reasons I choose FOTOLIA

1. It is absolutely free to register. After register, you can use your account to buy some photos and you can also sell your photos.

2. It is very easy to register. There are a lot of stock photo web site require you to provide photo ID. FOTOLIA does not require your photo ID. So, you can get instant access to your account after register. This point actually attracts me to give up the others, because I am a person who does not like to give my photo ID to someone I don’t know over Internet.

3. The photograph approval is very fast comparing others. If you have tried other stock photo web you will find FOTOLIA is really fast.

4. And your photograph are very easy to get approval. This is really important to us. Because we are not professional. Only if our photograph to meet commercial requirement, FOTOLIA will accept.

5. FOTOLIA has good marketing, therefore, your photograph will be sell very fast. The speed level is much higher than the others.

6. There are millions photos in stock and millions user to use FOTOLIA

7. The payment method is flexible. You can choose FOTOLIA to pay check to you. But, what I like is FOTOLIA does accept PayPal. If you have a PayPal account, it is very convenient to receive your payment. Many other stock photo webs do not recognize PayPal.

8. FOTOLIA assigns a unique link to each photo you uploaded. It is very convenient to promote your work.

9. You do not have to do promotion, because FOTOLIA has very good marketing online. However, you can still do marketing by yourself to dramatically increase your sell.

Statistic shows, generally speaking, each photo can make one dollar profit per year. You must say: what, you got be joking, one dollar a year. Please do not ignore this one dollar. If you take, to say, 10 photos a day, ( I believe you can. Usually, if I go somewhere for travel, I usually take at least 3 roll films. After getting digital camera, the amount I take is much more than before during one trip. If you go somewhere average two weeks. You take, to say, 3 rolls: 24×3=72 or 36×3=108, or 140 digital photos) one year, your will take 3650 photos, they will generate at least 3650 dollars. FOTOLIA also allow you to sell extensive license of your photo. It will make much more profit for you. And the most important is that your sales will not stop there. Your photos will be sold again and again. So, if you continue to upload photos for several years, you can imagine that, what will happen? Assume you upload same amount of photos per year. This will not increase your workload. The profit of the first year is 3650 dollars. In second year, you will get 7300 dollars in cash. In third year you will get paid over 10,000 dollars extra income. And it will be over again and again, never stops. Go to FOTOLIA to register and get free account now and start sell your photos.

Photography is a vast field that many people are interested in getting into–whether for leisure purposes such as a hobby or for a serious job like most professional photographers get into. And why not, photography is the ultimate expression of oneself that can be taken as an art. Even more, it can be made into a profitable business and a rewarding career.

There are two types of photographs that can be captured in photography–one is a captured through film and the other and more recent development in photography is captured through a digital media such as a memory card. For the pictures that are captured through film, a good amount of skills is necessary because aside from point and shoot, the ability to produce prints from films is a very tedious process to do.

It is a good thing that digital photography has been introduced in the society. With digital photography, it is very easy to capture images and delete them in instances where one finds the shot unacceptable. One good thing about a digital camera is that you can easily manipulate how a photograph will look through the use of photo manipulation software.

Digital photography has been very popular in the current society because of the ease and flexibility that this type of work gives the photographer. For the ordinary, picture-admiring public, it gives them delight as the pictures are masterfully rendered and manipulated that a seemingly simple object or moment becomes extraordinary.

Because of the popularity, many people are becoming interested in finding digital photography jobs. However, it is not in an instant that one can take a job like this. For an individual to succeed as a photographer, he must learn some additional skills regarding the creative and technical aspects of photography.

Qualification wise, there are several trainings and programs that one can get into to further enhance his skills in photography. Having a unique style is something that will set one apart from the others, therefore exhibiting one will be very helpful when applying to digital photography jobs.

The field of photography will always have something for everyone, which is one major reason why it continues to be appealing to many people. In photography, one’s interest is taken into context and is developed through the many exposures that one can get on the job.

The rewards of digital photography jobs go beyond the usual advantage of getting paid for doing something you love since it can even make one earn a decent living. The salaries of being a professional and well-known photographer can reach up to six figures in many instances. If you come to think of it, it really does pay well to become a photographer. Indeed, it is very ideal to get paid for something you find your interest in since it makes the job all the more easier. Some will even consider it not as a job but as a commitment.

I am keen to start an evening course but i don’t want to spend thousands. Is there anything else i need?

I like taking pictures but I really want to learn photography. Should I take courses for it? What courses should I take just to learn basic stuff for photography?