Archive for the ‘Photographing Children’ Category
Lifephoto’s Day Planner Reviewed by Busy Mom
Keeping a Family Organized is Easier with a Day Planner Customized to Your Schedule
A working mom who runs a house and home-based businesses while tending to the children, their schoolwork and sports activities reviews the Lifephoto day planner she made. She wanted a daily planner that begins before the school year and takes her right through to the next August. Here’s what she has to say. Link to her full review.
Make a Coffee Table Book That Mom Will Treasure
Photo books don’t have to be about family. 
They can be about any topic that moves you — or Mom, in this case. What does she like? What would she appreciate? Make her a coffee table book that she’ll show to everyone.
Suggestions for Photo Book Subjects
Here are a few ideas to get you thinking about the possiblities:
- Favorite Dogs or Cats
- Grandchildren
- Cookbook or Recipe Book
- Travel Destinations — Vacations
- Family History
- Favorite Poems (today I have Haiku poems featured on photo book pages)
- Favorite quotations with photos
- Flower Gardens
- Mom & Child photo moments
Get started on a special coffee table book for this Mother’s Day. She’ll just love it!
Begin with Easter preparations — Baking, egg coloring, decorating your home
If you like to capture each family holiday in photos, 
begin taking your photos early as you get ready for the Easter holida. Include all your Easter activities:
- Decorating
- Baking
- Egg coloring
- Easter bonnet try-ons
- Easter egg hunt
- Easter dinner
- Family and friends
- Easter bunny treats
- Easter baskets
- Dressing up for church
Then you’ll have plenty of photos to make a terrific Easter 2010 Family Memory Book. Once your book is made on Lifephoto.com, send the link to your book to family and friends via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, your blog or Web site. They can order copies or just view it online for free. Photo memories can last forever and are so easily shared today!
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
Entry Categories: continue reading
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:
ImageWraps Canvas Photo Printing
Create an heirloom portrait in minutes from your digital photo on 
lifephoto.com. Make one for your home or to give as a gift to someone special. Your photo image takes on the look of a fine oil painting and actually wraps around the frame — viewable from the sides as well as the front of the frame. Here are a few ideas for photo subjects:
- Family portrait
- Children
- Grandchildren
- Beloved pet
- Once-in-a-lifetime car or motorcycle — a Harley? muscle car? vintage car?
- Family home or farmstead
- Your flowering garden? (Imagine the blossoms wrapping around the frame!)
- Wedding or engagement photo continue reading
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
