Children's Portrait Photography Handbook

Children’s Portrait PHOTOGRAPHY HANDBOOK Amherst Media BILL HURTER ® PUBLISHEROFPHOTOGRAPHYBOOKS ...

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Copyright © 2007 by Bill Hurter. All rights reserved. Front cover photograph by Stacy Bratton. Back cover photographs by Jeff Ha ...

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4 CHILDREN’S PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY HANDBOOK PHOTOGRAPHBYSTACYBRATTON. ...

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6 CHILDREN’S PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY HANDBOOK INTRODUCTION.. The Challenges. The Rewards. CAMERA TECHNIQUE. Lenses. The Normal ...

and you are suddenly dealing with an uncooperative sub- ject or, in the worst case scenario, a screaming out-of- control subject ...

pictures, then, they sometimes don’t emotionally relate to the child in the photograph. What they see in their minds’ eye is the ...

The Rewards. George Eastman, the great grandfather of the Eastman Kodak Company, once said that there are about 160 things that ...

Lenses. The rule of thumb for selecting an adequate portrait focal length is to choose one that is twice the diagonal of the for ...

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Fortunately, camera manufacturers who have commit- ted to smaller chip sizes have started to introduce lens lines specifically d ...

quires that you work much closer to the subject than you would for an adult’s portrait. This “normal” lens will pro- vide an und ...

sharp. When working at wide lens apertures where depth of field is reduced, you must focus carefully to hold the eyes, ears, and ...

the image frame, making precision focusing much faster and more accurate. These AF zones are user-selectable or can all be activ ...

is most often seen in the studio, where background dis- tance can be controlled, thus limiting the sharpness only to the subject ...

to be brought into Photoshop for retouching or special effects and subsequent proofing and printing. The instan- taneous nature ...

the image. Both features are highly useful, especially when specific detail is needed in the final image, like the highlight det ...

keep it on the low side at capture, because it is much eas- ier to increase contrast after the shoot than to reduce it. Black &a ...