Design Aglow Posing for Family Portraits Photography

Dominique Book Review, Parenting and Kids Photography book

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The Design Aglow Posing Guide for Family Portrait Photography: 100 Modern Ideas for Photographing Newborns, Babies, Children, and Families by Lena Hyde is a book which aspiring family photographers should read.

In her book she gives lot of tips on how to photograph Newborns and babies, Children, Siblings and Families.

– Using of props to set the background for the photo shoot.

– Lighting and it’s effect on the shot.

– How to arrange subject and create the composition for the picture.

A photograph tells a thousand words. The moment that is captured is a precious memory which can be

constantly relived through looking at the visual print.

Lena shares many of her commercial secrets on how she carries out family photo shoots successfully.

Through reading her book I learned about adding in elements of comfort and color coordination of the different subjects are something which budding photographers like me often overlook during a photo taking session.

Making good use of the outdoors and framing your subjects properly to make a stunning photograph sees so effortless in Lena’s pictures. Her photographs have the “wow” factor and each photograph taken tells a story.

My thoughts

I am always interested to learn how to make my shots better and to really take advantage of the environment to bring my photography skills up a notch.

I learned many new tips from Lena’s book which I will be putting to good use photographing the kids during our next outing.

If you are interest do pick up your own copy of The Design Aglow Posing Guide for Family Portrait Photography: 100 Modern Ideas for Photographing Newborns, Babies, Children, and Families today.

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February 12, 2014

Writer’s Workshop: Much Loved

Dominique Parenting and Kids, Thoughts alpha thursday

Pink Bloom

This is the week to celebrate love with Valentines Day falling on Friday. . The malls are all decked out with hearts and other romantic decorations. Love songs are played more often on the radio and I hear lots of love dedications on the air during lunchtime.

There has been an overdose on Love Songs at home too. This year I’ve received my Valentines’ Day present early in the form of CNBlue’s Latest Album. The kids too have been humming and singing along to the tunes on the CD.

Love Girl sung by Jung Yong Hwa is the boys favourite track on that CD. I really wonder in years to come which girl will they be singing this song to.

Listening to the love songs by CNBlue at home made me recall the presents and flowers that I had received on Valentine’s Day.

I remember that one particular year R went off to work in the morning as usual. I wasn’t expecting any thing from him and was surprised to see a bouquet of blue roses delivered to me at work.

Blue roses are my personal favourite and had to be ordered in advance. It is one of the most expensive also. If blue roses are not available I wouldn’t mind getting roses in Peach or Pink too. (HINT HINT!!)

Another year he made a love dedication in print in our local newspapers. ( I still have the cut out in a folder with the rest of the love notes that I have received from him over the years)

R and I haven’t been celebrating Valentines Day on Valentine’s Day itself these few years . We believe that celebrating love should be restricted to just one day in a year but an ongoing process. Love is not something which can be quantified and certainly grows and matures through the ages.