Michelle Perkins eBooks

Offering inspiration as well as guidance for portrait photographers to use during sessions with infants and toddlers-notoriously difficult subjects for posing-this guide takes a uniquely visual approach to instruction through its 500 stellar shots. With the challenges faced while working with children, it is easy to end up in a rut of go-to poses. The book counters the stock image effect with its broad variety of creative options, and incorporates experience-based knowledge on achieving successful results, such as creating a comforting zone for the child or the potential assistance of integrated props. The poses highlight what the parents love to see while considering what will work with even the most willful of young subjects....

Filled with images by accomplished portrait, fashion, and wedding photographers, thisis a resource for photographers seeking inspiration for their own work when capturing group images. Designed for ease of use, the sample portraits in this guidebook are grouped according to the number of subjects included-working from small groups of three up to larger groups including 10 or more people-and within each section, the portraits are further subdivided into how much the frame showsof the subjects, from close head-and-shoulders portraits to three-quarter-length imagesand full-length shots. The hundreds of samples provide inspiration and are easily replicated, allowing photographers to customize the source material to meet any type of need....

Containing numerous contemporary images by leading photographers, this indispensable manual concerning wedding portraits explains posing fundamentals as well as how to create a flattering, feature-specific photograph--one that focuses on the head, shoulders, arms, legs, or torso--in different levels of close-ups, from head-shots to full-lengths....