Elevate the Everyday: A Photographic Guide to Picturing Motherhood

by Tracey Clark

Turn the everyday into the extraordinary with Elevate the Everyday, renowned photographer and blogger Tracey Clark’s guide to documenting motherhood. Focusing on the beauty of ordinary moments, Tracey offers inspirational ideas that will jumpstart your photographic energies and enable you to see your children and yourself in a new way through the lens of your camera. Each day of a mother’s life is full of photographic potential, and Elevate the Everyday gives you the tools to take moments and situations that might be easily overlooked and turn them into memorable and lasting photographs. With a host of creative ideas, technical tips, poignant stories of motherhood, and inspirational images that go far beyond traditional posed shots, Tracey shows you how to unlock your creativity and document your everyday life. Accessible and encouraging, this book is for everyone who wants to document the special moments in their lives, camera in hand.

Inside Elevate the Everyday, you’ll • Nuts-and-bolts advice on camera settings, composition, and more, to help ensure that photographing your family is made easy • Creative and easy ways to turn your daily routine with your children into opportunities for beautiful, captivating images that will tell the unique story of your family • Tips on using photography to document the story of your own motherhood experience as you simultaneously capture the moments of your children’s lives • Inspirational stories and images from Tracey herself as well as from an exceptional community of mothers who are also photographers, writers, and bloggers-including Kelly Rae Roberts, Denise Andrade, Meredith Winn, Catherine Newman, Amy McMullen, Sheri Reed, Ali Edwards, Kristin Zecchinelli, Angie Warren, Andrea Coronna Jenkins, Xanthe Berkeley, Catherine Connors, Gabrielle Blair, and Stacy Julian.

160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 25, 2012

Reviews

[ياسمين يوسف · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good guide for a very starting family photographer. Nicely written