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Russ Berrie Bless This Child Photo Frame, Blue

List Price: $16.00 Price: $16.00

Product Details Holds 4"x6" photo 9.25"x7" Porcelain with sculpted borders metallic silver accents

Photographing Children Photo Workshop: Develop Your Digital Photography Talent

List Price: $29.99 Price: $19.79 You Save: $10.20 (34%)

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Customer Reviews

Excellent book!
This is a GREAT book about photographing children. I have read many photography books in the past few months and this one is by far the best. It has made such a difference already in how I photograph my daughter.

2010-02-28 (Yorktown, VA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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The Perfect Baby Gift
This is an excellent primer on photography in general. But what better way to inform and bless all the precious moments that lie ahead for the new mom and dad? This book is easy to read and drives home the points with excellent examples. In my opinion it's one of the ultimate baby blessings. Since I discovered this book this year, I've given three copies to new parents and it has been a tremendous hit.

2010-01-01 | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5

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Fantastic Find!
I received this book last Christmas from my husband as an accompaniment to my new camera. Although I had read several books on photography the previous year, none inspired me quite as much as this one! I read the book quickly because it was well written in simple terms that just made sense. Later I went back and read each chapter more in depth to try to solidify the principles in my mind. And while I did want to learn how to take better photographs of children, Ginny's book taught me much more than that. It taught me timeless photography "rules" that help me constantly when photographing anything. The greatest lesson I've learned is "seeing the light" which has changed the way I photograph.

In addition to the fantastic book, I've had the privilege to be a part of a Facebook group by the same name. Ginny, as well and many other photographers, contribute to make it a great forum for gaining helpful feedback on photographs of children. It has allowed me to directly see the principles outlined in "Photographing Children" in action both in my own work and in others. Why don't you join us!

2009-12-20 (Scotland, UK) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Gives highlights, but I didn't like depth of field treatment
I thought this book was a good read. It covers a lot of issues in photography and gives highlights and good advice on many areas.

I was disappointed with their treatment of depth of field, which is what is in focus. They claim that the aperture (f-stop) determines the depth of field, and discuss this for several pages. It is not until page 196 where they mention that focal length affects depth of field. The focal length discussion needs to be in the depth of field discussion. With a wide angle lens you are going to have a long depth of field, and with a telephoto, you are going to have a shallow depth of field. Many authors make this mistake and send amateurs on wild goose chases because they don't have the proper lens to get the depth of field they seek.

Below are the notes I took for myself from this book. I hope you find them helpful.

Shutter speed can either freeze movement, or cause blurring. The faster the shutter speed, the more likely to freeze motion. On the high end:
* Toddler roaming 1/250
* Kids running 1/500
* Child swinging 1/1000
For noise free results use ISOs of 100-400. Common settings are:
* Sun 100
* Porch light 200
* Overcast day 200-400
* Window light 400
* Indoor w/o flash 800 and up
* Stage performance w/o flash 1600
* Indoor sports event w/o flash 1600
F stop (aperture) affects depth of field
* f/8 to f/22 produce a long depth of field, meaning most things are in focus, this is referred to as shooting closed down.
* For a short depth of field that makes the subject jump out and the background be more blurry use larger apertures. Most photos in this book were shot between f/1.4 and f/5.6. This is called shooting wide.
"Photographs are not made by cameras, which are only tools."
Program modes;
* Portrait mode is a precursor to aperture priority, sports mode to shutter priority,
* f/4 and f/5.6 give you pleasing depth of field for portraits. Larger f-stops, such as f/1.5 and f/1.2 make for very selective focus and make everything else blurry.

In the chapter on natural light, called "seeing the light", the authors favor natural light, and sweet light with is the first hour of sunlight of the day and the last hour. High-key photos are light subjects against a light background. Contouring light is 3 times as much light on one side of your subject as on the other side. Specular light is the bright line dividing the highlight from the shadow. The flash in the eyes is called catch lights.

There is also a chapter about manipulating light with flash, light modifiers, white balance, and studio lighting. Using your on camera flash as the main light is almost always a mistake. Cosmetic ads are shot with front or flat lighting because it creates a shadowless light that disguises imperfections. Rembrandt lighting is achieved by placing your subject at a 45-degree angle to your light source such as a window. With studio lights, the closer they are to the subject, the softer they appear.

On composition, keep it simple, and do so by getting close. Watch for dark things in light spaces and vice versa. Negative space is empty space around your subject that works to emphasize. Never crop off hands and feet. Either zoom in to the head and shoulders, or zoom out to get the hands, or zoom out more and get the whole body including feet.
Focal length
* 12mm Wide angle - good for large groups
* 50mm Standard - this is what the eye sees
* 105 Telephoto - often considered ideal for portraits (finally!)
* 200mm Telephoto - good for blurring out backgrounds and getting close to action

2009-11-10 (Noblesville, IN USA) | Helpful Votes: 26 | Rating: 4

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Wonderful for amatuers
This book is wonderful. I am by no means a professional photographer, I did take a photography class in high school and have always enjoyed photography and taking pictures. After having children, I wanted to improve my skills. I bought a new SLR camera to improve the quality of my pictures. This book has helped me understand a lot of the functions of my camera, what differnt setting to use to get the look that I want out of a pictures. It has great assignments at the end of each chapter to help comfirm what you have read. I have run around the house after my kids using the techniques I learned in this book. While I still have along way to go, I already can see a difference in my pictures. I bought a couple of other books with this one and this is by far the best. I think anyone wanting to improve their knowledge on their camera and on the skill of photography would benefit from this.

2009-10-19 | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 5

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Mommy I'm Here cl-305 Child Locator with New Alert Feature, Blue

List Price: $34.99 Price: $29.68 You Save: $5.31 (15%)

Product Details Wireless youngster location Works from over 150-Feet away Ditch-water resistant

Customer Reviews

WORKS GREAT
Works great! just dont forget to turn it OFF or the batteries will go fast.

2009-10-31 | MommyinCT (ct) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5

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Blue bear baby
I found this product to work exaclty as promised. It was ideal for my smallest child and alerted my as soon as she was beyond the range. Even though the range seemed to vary a little it was nice to know she could never get too far. With my older son I got the brown bear since it works more like a locator device. So he can roam a little further and if I notice he is out of sight I can press the button and hear him. I love them both and think I have found the right mix of products for my kids.

2009-06-30 | Proud Dad (New York) | Helpful Votes: 13 | Rating: 5

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Great idea - too many false alarms...
Disappointed, we returned this unit for a refund. We bought this unit hoping it would alert us if our toddler strayed too far. While it does so effectively we received numerous false alarms even when our child was only a few feet away. On one outing the false alarms became so frequent that we turned the unit off.

This product is a great idea that with some tweaking could be very useful. We're hoping to see an improved version.

2009-05-14 (Hampton, VA) | Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 2

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Very pleased warts and all
I liked this enough to return for more. Yes, metal objects can interfere with radio signals at some locations but it errs on the side of caution. The antenna helps somewhat in these instances. There may be places that cause false triggers but I accept that. I now have one for all my grandchildren. Love it!

2009-05-01 (Miami, FL) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5

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not what we thought
We have a very active 2 1/2 year old who loves to run. We have a few trips planned that will involve being in large, crowded spaces and obviously my husband and I were both concerned about her safety (even with both of us watching her closely). Those of you with active toddlers know how fast they can hide! we tried it once and quickly realized the "alert feature" was annoying. 25 feet sounds pretty far. It's not. Have your child stand in front of you and measure it. We were walking through an outdoor event with her in front of us and it kept going off. And the alarm is very high pitched...and yes, very loud. It will work great when you want it to. But it was annoying us and everyone around us. A couple of times she was standing only 2-3 feet in front of us but with objects in between and the alarm would still sound. Finally I just turned it off. The actual company (My Precious Kid) the product is shipped from was very helpful when I e-mailed them about my disappointment with the product. I asked if I could return it and instead get the brown locator (without the alert feature)and they sent it right out. So far we haven't had to use it, but it is peace of mind knowing we can just press the button to hear her. Obviously this product isn't meant to be "instead of" watching your child. But it is so easy for a todddler to get ahead of you and be one aisle over in a department store out of your sight. I've kept it on her shoe even with trips to the local mall. So while the "alert feature" didn't work for our needs, the original product has.

2009-04-26 (Ca) | Helpful Votes: 48 | Rating: 1

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Photo Pearls® Pixel Art Set

List Price: $69.99 Price: $69.99

Product Details Contains 15,000 beads in 30 extraordinary colors Fun and Easygoing Includes software CD

Razor Multi-Sport Protective Pad Set (Child)

List Price: $21.99 Price: $11.57 You Save: $10.42 (47%)

Product Details Full resilient sleeve to align pads with joints Oppressive plastic slideable caps to deflect impact Vindicated and loop fastened straps to secure and heavy stitching and riveted caps for durability

Customer Reviews

Not a very durable product
After a few uses, 2 problems emerged: (1) the elastic stretched very easily so it no longer ensures a proper fit; and (2) one of the kneepads broke (i.e. the plastic protective cover separated from the rest of the kneepad). The inexpensive cost is not worth it so I would recommend that you pay the extra money and invest in a better set of protective gear.

2008-11-26 (California) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 1

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NO HELEMET
Yeah It does not come as shown. Too bad I already ordered before the other review.

2008-01-08 | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 2

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Not what was pictured
I ordered this product for my son's birthday and was expecting what was pictured (knee and elbow pads and helmet). To my surprise when I opened the box today there was no helmet. I emailed customer service so we'll see what happened. The pads look great, but Amazon failed to meet my expectations.
1/12/08 Amazon re-shipped another set at no cost. I received it today and again there was no helmet. Just the pads. Very disappointing.

2008-01-07 (USA) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 2

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