500 Poses for Photographing Children: A Visual Sourcebook for Digital Portrait Photographers Paperback – Illustrated, August 1, 2012

If you are a beginning photographer - this is a must have!Ideas for poses is sometimes hard to come by, however this book will get the gears of your creativity cranking.I would also suggest this for any photographer to have on their shelf- for a just in case session.

Some cute ideas and photos overall. Many of the photos I would describe as snapshots versus being taken by a professional photographer.

Most of the kids in these images are either young or older teens. I don't see too many that relate to my own children's ages and so I wasn't inspired to race out and practice posing techniques from this book with my kids. There are some group shots of kids, but the kids are all very close in age...what do you do when they aren't? That or there's quite a bit of age between the kids...like a little kid and a baby for instance, or a teen and a little kid. Additionally, poses of groups of kids tend to feature the same way. Either that or if the kids appear similar in age to my own, they are all very different in height so getting a dynamic image with varying head heights is easy. What do you do when your subjects are both close in age and height?!?!? I own all of the 500 poses series and this is my least favorite.

Just the thing for boosting creativity in poses when you get in a rut. Beautiful images to get the ideas flowing. If you are looking for a how to book this isn't it. This is for photographers who know lighting and camera settings.

Not impressed at all by the poses presented in the book. A few great photos but most of them were just ok. I am not a professional photographer, I just love taking pictures of my kids so I got this to find more useful poses for my pictures. After looking through the entire book, I have founded it totally useless. There is not a single pose in there I haven't tried or done with my kids before. I would not waste money on this.

I loved this book! There are tons of great poses for all age ranges. I would recommend this book to anyone getting into the photography business.

I was hoping for well illustrated tutorials. The book is a picture book of decent to excellent examples with a modicum of teaching. It could have been a much better book with more inside secrets and tips.

This book also gives some good ideas that one may never think of. Certainly sparks my memory banks of something new that a Photographer can do.I highly recommend these books.