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

by Donna Smylie

Take extraordinary photos of ordinary life Every picture may be worth a thousand words - but what if your photos could be worth even more? Learning to take compelling portraits of your loved ones is a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581809093
• ISBN13: 9781581809091
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: North Light Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Photographers MUST have

WOW, I just purchased this book last night and I've only read to page 21. (because I have been mesmerized by the wonderful photography) I cannot say enough good things about what I had read thus far. I have many photography books however this will be the one that rarely stays on the shelf. It is a easy read while still giving definition to those important photography technical details. Like the introductions says if you are looking for photos of landscapes or hummingbirds you have the wrong book. If you are a mother or love children this book is for you. You do not need to be a serious photographer to purchase this book. And at the same time you can still learn things if you are a professional. (at least from the creative aspects) In closing if I could I would give this 10 stars! Way to go Donna and Allison!

This book is a TEN!

Congratulations to these two ladies for putting together one of the BEST books on heartfelt photography that I have seen. It's definitely centered on family life and children, so if you're looking to shoot landscapes you might want to go elsewhere. Their new take on the 5 S's of Compostion and 4 M's of lighting are well illustrated with images and precisely detailed with words. Easy to remember, too. The only way you could not benefit from this book would be not to read it! It's beautifully laid out, so scrapbookers will be inspired and equally well photographed so photographer will love it also. Thank you Donna and Allison! When is your next book coming out?

WONDERFUL!

I love, love, LOVE this book!! This is wonderfully inspirational! For me, it was the perfect balance of text (basic explanations and ideas) and photo examples by some extremely talented photographers. This book is all about photographing people (the author says as much right in the introductory paragraph), so you won't find photos of inanimate objects or sweeping landscapes, but aren't scrapper's mainly about people anyway. It gave me a ton of ideas for future photos of my daughter. I also love that that in the back of the book, it offered links to the websites of several of the photographers featured in the book - I checked them out - even MORE great inspiration! Did I mention that I LOVE this book?

Awesome Book and I've met Allison too!!!!!!!!!!!

What an inspiration! If you are looking for a book on how to get GapAd photos of your kiddos and family and friends...this is it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It rocks I love it, two thumbs up. Allison is a joy and this book is readable and EASY to understand for the novice photographer.

Awesome!

Great book! The information is very well written and the sample pictures are great inspiration!