Holiday Family Photography

We are a large family, 2 adults and 5 children, and we are taking family photos. We are planning to do take the photos outdoors at a park location. I want to find some creative ideas for taking standard family photos as well as photos for our Holiday Cards.

Where can I look for poses for taking family photos? I would also like to look at some other examples. Thanks!

Think about what describes your family, or your personalities. If you are an athletic family, maybe you want to add some soccer balls or basketballs. If you are a musical family, perhaps bringing some instruments into the photo would be fun? Hamming it up could be fun too, or picking a clothing theme. See if there are any other props you could use. Have fun!

2008-11-19 05:20:10 by MO

Hi,
I just finished a graphic design program. I also own a petcare business.

I would like to start a side business offering my petcare clients design work. Specifically, I would like to offer to design clients' holidays cards for friends and family.

What is the best way to go about this?

I am a decent photographer. I also am a decent designer.

So, should I buy blank car stock and design and print out 3-4 templates of designs, each with an attached photograph taped in the middle? If I use a printing shop, they will charge me an arm and a leg to print only 4 samples. But I can't print a full bleed with printer at home, not to mention the quality wouldn't be great.

Or do I just find cute pre-designed Christmas cards with a photo spot and only worry about taking the photograph? But I would assume that most clients would want a personalized message inside. And how much money could I really make if I didn't design it? But the outside printing would already be done, so that would save some money, maybe?

So , what do you suggest?

Has anyone done this on a small scale? I have 15 clients and I would guess that 7-8 of them will take me up on the holiday card design. I am assuming that each client will order 50-60 cards, at least.

What do I charge? What is the most cost efficient way to do this?

Check out cafepress.com
you can upload your work onto their site, put your designs on their products & they sell it for you, they have cards, apparel, posters, a lot of other things. They're really great to work with. I don't make a fortune from them, but I do sell quite a bit. Have fun.

2008-10-06 00:19:12 by victoria

It's easy to use
Fun to use and exciting
High quality-archival

I would like to take a picture of my children or my family and make Holiday cards out of them. I would like some interesting pose ideas. I have a couple places I can do this, 1. A window with a snow scene in the background or 2. A Christmas tree. That's all I have for ideas so far, so any other ideas I would love to hear! :)

Thanks

in front of the house

2006-11-26 20:57:14 by darcyd26

Price: $3.49

Hi there!

Well, I've decided that I would like to take up photography as a hobby and not just use my 5MP Canon SD400 for family, girlfriend, and holiday pictures. I really wonder why photographers carry those nice big cameras around, i thought i might give a try.

I want to create photos that will create memories that last forever.

I've looked round the net, but there is so much to consider, I really don't know where to start or even how to start. I just want to be able to take really nice pictures of people, landscapes and objects,; and have the option of being a bit creative.

What I am looking for is a SLR camera which has a good range of manual settings, takes great photos and is relatively easy for a complete beginner to use. Could anyone please recommend a good camera which can take RAW photos, including lenses? Because from what I have seen, there is so much available and I really don't have a clue as to what lenses are good or not, or what they do. I've seen a Nikon D40, but not really to sure what I'd want, or if these are suitable. What about lens? I heard there are swappable lens.

Also, if you take high quality photos, what options do you have for printing? Do you photoshop them? Do you take them to a print shop?

I hope this was detailed enough;


Thanks for any help!!!!

Whoa you have just opened a huge can of worms!! I would suggest you look up the Nikon D70s or D80 bc they have manual controls but still some auto controls as well. Something like the D200 or D300 is a pro camera, with nothing but manual controls so you would have to have some experience already. I think the D80 is a very good beginner camera, although you might still feel daunted. If you dont know what ISO is or white balance, then be prepared to take a class or read several books on digital photography. Also the D80 has the RAW option.

As for lenses, I would suggest you visit amazon or digicombos.com, they offer packages at really good prices with camera bodies and lenses included. I would suggest you try to find something in the 28-150mm range, that would cover your wide angle shots and portraiture, but for now stay away from 70-300mm unless you plan to do a lot of shooting from great distances. I would also suggest you stay away from third party lenses, stick with nikon lenses if you get a nikon, cannon lenses with canon, etc. Third party lenses that say they work on nikons or whatever dont always fit as well as a nikkor lens.

As for priting, that is a whole 'nother issue. You have tons of options for printing, some people use professional labs, others use places like costco, bc they do a dencent job and are cheap. If you plan on printing yourself, be prepared to learn about color calibration software, color profiles, dye ink vs pigment ink, etc. There are tons of options out there, look into the epsons and cannons, they are excelent printers. I would also suggest that if you are doing any sort of shooting, obtaining a copy of adobe cs3 is absolutely necessary.

I hope this helps a little, and if you dont feel overwhelemed yet, then welcome to the world of digital photography.

P.S. check out my sources, they are VITAL!

2008-08-13 23:36:15 by Asdfkj A

He is 34 and I bought the 3 other girls that I work w/ a gift box with choices of magazine subscriptions here's the list of magazines:

Allure, Cosmopolitan, Details, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Essence,Glamour,Good Housekeeping,In Style,Oprah,People, People en Español, Real Simple, Women's Day,Cooking Light, Family Circle, Family Fun, Fitness, Food & Wine, Health, Men's Health, Parenting, Reader's Digest,Architectural Digest, Coastal Living, Cottage Living, Southern Living, Sunset, This Old House,
Business 2.0, Fortune, Money, Smithsonian,The New Yorker, Time, Wired,Car and Driver, Field & Stream, Golf, Outdoor Life, PC Magazine, Photography, Popular Science, Runner's World Scrapbooks etc., Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, and Travel + Leisure Golf.

It seems to me like most of the magazines are for women. Do you think this is a good gift for a guy or what else should I get for him? I don't wanna give all the girls I work with one and then him wish he had gotten one.

Yes I think so, just because they are women's magazine doesn't mean that there might be some good reading in them for him. Happy Holidays.

2006-12-20 09:03:39 by brownie12866