Archive for the ‘Photographing Children’ Category
Submit Digital Photos by March 15 — Extended Deadline April 5
You’ve got to have a few terrific digital photos on your hard drive or in your camera that you could enter in the PDN Faces Portrait photo contest.
Who is PDN:
Photo District News (PDN), the award-winning monthly magazine for the professional photographer, has been covering the professional photographic industry for over two decades.
Who Can Enter: Amateur and professional photographers
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Remember the Birthday Fun
Do you have tons of pictures you took at your child’s last birthday party?
Gather them up to put into a birthday photo book. Just upload them to lifephoto.com — you can set up your own birthday book photo folder there at no cost.
At $6.95 for a 20-page softcover 6″ x 4″ photo book, it’s easy to make one for each child’s birthday. And these books will be a memory that will last forever. Here are some of the options:
- 7 books sizes
- Hardcover or softcover
- 4 paper stock choices
- Lots of birthday backgrounds to use (or not)
- 2-4 photos will easily fit on a page
- Many photo arrangement choices
- Full flexibility for photo placement, captions and text
Fast, Easy and Inexpensive Photo Books for Every Birthday
Get started now and surprise your child. Better yet, send one to Grandma and Grandpa, too.
PHOTO SHARING NOTE: Don’t forget — you can share your birthday photo book and your digital photo album by e-mail, on Facebook, Twitter or a blog.
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One Teacher + One Class = Unforgettable 5th Grade Memory Book
The title of this photo book tells it all — 5th Grade Rocks! The kids and the teacher just “clicked” and everyone had a good time throughout the year. That’s why the class honored her with an extraordinary photo book depicting all the best of a year that flew by all too quickly. (See the Photo Sharing Preview of the whole book.)
Photos and Notes from the Students
The mom who put this book together used a wide range of photos from throughout the year:
Tips to Get Creative Photos of Kids
Some pro photographers snap very creative shots of kids. 
They know how and when to capture the poses, the looks, the emotions. But typically it costs a lot of money for that kind of photo shoot. You can pick up a few tips to help you achieve some of those results yourself. Read this post from the blog at Photography Bay. It’s full of simple, useful tips to help you capture those unique moments. continue reading
Since Halloween is almost here, I’d like to share yet another viewpoint on how 
to capture the lights, colors and action shots of the season. These come from a professional photo blog called The Lab by Apollo.
How to Take Great Halloween Photos
Posted by TJ Dinsmoor on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 @ 12:11 PM
Pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating, costume parties, haunted houses – yup, Halloween is pretty neat. Now that Halloween is just around the corner, Apollo put together some pointers to help you take great Halloween photos. continue reading
This is no ordinary baby announcement! It’s a creation that you can easily make online — capturing all the beauty and snuggly cuteness of your new baby.
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Plan a first-day-of-school memory book for the class.
Be all-inclusive in the photos you take at school and you can be the class hero.
Besides snapping photos of your child, the teacher, the classroom and the playground, take digital photos of all the kids in your child’s class — together as a group, in small groups or clusters and individually. Get a couple of shots of every child to ensure each child will be in the book. Then make up a photo memory book that can be distributed by e-mail (using the free online flipping-book version) to the teacher and all parents in your child’s class. Parents who can’t be there for the first day of school will be extremely appreciative. continue reading
