Books &Blogs: The Photographer’s Bag O’ Tricks

Every other Friday I review a book or blog related to scrapbooking.



Kelly Willette is a photographer and blogger. She has created these neat little downloadable photography posing guides. Today, I’m reviewing The Photographer’s Bag O’ Tricks: Games to Play to Encourage Smiles. The guide contains 20 tips labeled with the age that the tip works best. The tips are geared towards photographing kids aged 8 and under, with most of the tips for kids under 5.

What I Like:

• I like the compact size. I can easily keep this in my camera bag without weighing my bag down too much.
• I think the tips are especially useful for professional photographers who might not have much experience either photographing kids or being around kids.
• Even if you already are experienced around kids, these tips will be useful for when your kid is more disagreeable with the camera. My kid used to always love to be photographed, but now–shocking I know–she has developed a mind of her own and is not always so agreeable.

What I Don’t Like:

• Each tip is organized by age, but the ages are inconsistent. An idea might be for ages 2-4, 2-5, 2-6, or 2-7. Ok, I can organize all of these starting with age 2. But then, where do I place the idea for ages 3-5? I opted to organize based on the first age listed on each idea. I’m not really sure there is a better way to do this and it might not really be an issue when you are actually using the prompts, but it would have made organizing the prompts in the first place easier.

Overall, I like this posing guide. I think it is a good value for the money.

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Stephanie