Expressions: Your Behind the Camera Guide to Taking Extraordinary Photos of Ordinary Life

by Donna Smylie

Photography instruction for scrapbooking and memory artFocuses on creative new ways to capture the most popular photograph subjects, family and everyday life

Offers additional tips and suggestions for designing unique, expressive scrapbook pages and memory art

Great-looking and memorable photographs are the centerpiece of any scrapbook. Now, scrapbooking and memory art enthusiasts have a photography instruction book written just for them. Expressions reveals how to create extraordinary photos that will make any scrapbook or display project a vivid record of special events and everyday life. Focusing on portraiture, the book follows the family life cycle, from babies to grandparents, with each subject explored from a fresh perspective.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2007

Reviews

[Addie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the photography & tips in this book!

[Jodi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a really great photography book. It's not very technical, so anyone who knows anything at all about photography could benefit from the tips and ideas in this book. It is full of beautiful photography and helps you learn how to get the same stunning results yourself. This is a book you can read from cover to cover in about 30 minutes, but is also a great reference on how to use light and compose your shots. However, if you're looking for something more technical or if you already have some fairly basic photography knowledge, this book will just be a review.

[Amy Brown (amylikestoreadalot) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoying this so far! not too technical, more about seeing and feeling the photos, and I'm getting so good ideas! Definitely worth picking up if you are trying to improve your photography skills.
Finished it and really enjoyed it....will be one I refer to quite a bit! Has a bunch of great ideas of what to take! Get it! :-)

[Eileen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent book about photographing people.

Some take away lessons to remember:
use fill flash to prevent facial shadows in harsh mid-day sun
photos w/ a bad color cast can be "saved" by converting to b and w.

[Cydnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked it up to learn more about how to take great people photos. It helped me better understand equipment and lighting and how it impacts my photo.

[Mishqueen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very concise, beautiful book. The authors got right to the point and didn't waste a minute of your time. I loved it! It will be on my purchase list, if I can only find it for cheap...

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book. I liked that it wasn't overly technical. It was more about technique and challenges.

[Imene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good inspirational books but not much in the technical aspect of the craft.
I loved the pictures and the inspiration it gave me

[Kristi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recommended by some great photographers on their blogs. I want to get this book.