Baby Lilly

Smile For The Camera Baby

by jonnyhitek

First smile, first yawn, going on her first trip to the doctor or wearing her first shoes. Nothing can give new moms and dads so much joy then having all these baby firsts captured in great photos.

And this new found hobby just doesn’t stop at baby’s first few months. It goes on and on to the first time baby crawls, the first steps, the first visit to grandma and grandpa and a host of other reasons to keep on clicking and clicking. This makes the digital camera a great gift for new parents. Furthermore, this makes us pop the question, is the camera a baby necessity? Should the digital camera be included in the new mom’s shopping list?

Well it certainly is not as necessary as hampers, feeding bottles or diapers, but for most parents, they just couldn’t do without a handy compact camera once the baby comes around. They’re just too cute!

The more affordable compact digital camera would be one good equipment for new moms and dads to start with. It operates with your basic point and shoot that comes with auto focus and zoom functions. It also allows neophyte parent-photographers to adjust the lighting from indoor to outdoor to night time photography. In other words the compact digital camera provides you with the basic photography needs.

The quality and size of photos you take and print would depend largely on the compact camera’s capabilities, from the very basic three or four or even up to ten mega pixels.

However, for new parents who would like to begin taking up baby photography as a serious hobby, the digital SLR camera may be a more appropriate choice. While it could come at a cost that is five or perhaps even ten times more expensive than the basic, the quality of photographs, its versatility and speed, and more importantly for documenting, baby’s firsts, and its capability to take action as it happens, easily explains why.

The compact camera’s auto focus and auto zoom functions are limited only to what has been electronically programmed. The digital SLR camera allows you to experiment and combine a wide range of options in terms of the choice of lens (such as whether for landscape or action photography) as well as its light sensitivity and shutter speed. It also allows you to choose the focal point of your photograph as you can manually adjust both the zoom and the focus separately, as much or as little as you want.

Of course, the digital SLR would require much careful handling compared to the compact camera, considering the sensitivity of its parts and the cost it entails when it comes to having them repaired or replaced. Chances of your digital SLR camera surviving as a toy– such as a teether or a ball–, should your baby accidentally get hold of it, are slim compared to the compact camera.

Having a digital camera handy, may it be the compact camera or the digital SLR camera during your baby’s first adventures is a sure fire way of making sure that happy baby memories are preserved and shared.

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Better Photos More Often

by Matt Brading

Most photographers getting into stock appreciate that you need a large volume of images to make it work consistently. The numbers involved can actually be quite intimidating when you first start but don’t let that put you off. Here’s a simple system that will increase your output exponentially and ensure the resulting images are highly marketable.

Most photographers never really get around to it, but the more time you put into identifying your markets and researching them, the more saleable your work will be. There’s no big secret there: the best marketers in any field are those who identify a market, research it and create a product that their new customers simply have to have.

The good news is it’s quite straightforward to apply that approach to your photography. The added bonus is that when you do take this approach your volume will increase significantly as well!

It’s a simple three-step process that you can start now and keep adding to for years to come. I’d suggest you get yourself a ring folder so you can add extra pages to various sections as required. Don’t let the simplicity fool you; this is very powerful. Here’s how it works:

1. Make a list of your main subjects … aim for about 10 for now. You wil ladd to this constantly, so for now just write down a few of the main subjects you like to shoot, those you shoot well and those you’d really like to shoot more often.

Write each one down at the top of a fresh page. If you are using a ring binder, make these the divider pages so you can insert additional pages between them.

2. Now make a list under each of those ‘Subjects’ of the kinds of photo buyers who might be interested in photos of that material. Write these under the ‘Subject’ heading and be as specific as possible.

3. Now set up a page for each of those Subject-Buyer combinations. You need to go looking for specific examples of that buyer type using an image of that subject. You need to find examples and really study the image to try and work out what was about each image that the buyer just had to have.

Make a note of any technical details of interest if you like, but your main focus should be on the content and composition. Your are researching your market, so some study of the competition is useful, but the real value here is in understanding what your potential customers are spending their money on.

In every published photo you see there will usually be one or two elements that the buyer simply had to have.

Even when the photo is a fairly ‘bland’ portrait; human, animal or object, there will usually be some specific trait or feature captured and conveyed that caused the buyer to select that particular image.

Other times it won’t be a physical element, but something less tangible: a mood or emotion or other message. They are the ones you need to study closely so you can see not just the message, but how the photographer used the physical elements of the image to convey it?

Has the photographer used props to add to the story? Are there more subtle symbols in play? How do all the elements fit together? How has the photographer used mood or emotion?

Until you start to recognise these kinds of elements in other images, it will be hit-and-miss whether you capture them in your own work. However, once you do start to look for these elements in other images, you’ll start to see them in your own photo opportunities, and then you can start include them in your own work.

When you do that I’d almost guarantee you’ll find yourself shooting much more marketable shots. You’ll also find you’re shooting a lot more prolifically as well!

Over time you might end up with notes on dozens of potential buyers for any subject you like to photograph, so when you’re faced with the opportunity to shoot a specific subject, you’ll have an extensive list of what buyer-types might be interested in images of this subject, and you’ll have specific information on the images they want.

Instead of getting one or two ‘photographer’ shots you could easily walk away with dozens of highly marketable images, each custom shot for a different specific market!

About the Author

Matt Brading is CEO and Founder of Ozimages Stock Photography Library. Get 4 of his free photography eBooks:

http://www.StockPhotographyProfits.com/

Get a detailed stock photography portfolio review at:

http://www.ozimages.com.au”

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