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Review: Questions and Assignments to Make Every Photo Shoot a Success

Friday 14 February 2025, 10:32 by | 5,537 views | 1 comment

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It is not always easy to take great photos of a family, for example. Children quickly get impatient, and you usually won't find anyone with much modelling experience. This booklet helps you make these shoots a success.

Book: Questions and Assignments


The booklet contains lots of short questions that you can ask your subject to get them in front of the camera in a relaxed way. The book also contains plenty of small assignments that you can give them.

This gives both children and adults something to do and talk about during the shoot, and stops them from sitting uncomfortably or bored, staring into your lens.

Questions and Assignments is based on the Moment Design technique. This technique is designed to help you take spontaneous photos that show the fun. Many family and wedding photographers use this technique.

This is also the field in which the authors, Peter and Corine Lammers, work.

The book is a handy, small A6 format. You can easily carry it in your camera bag during shoots. This means you can quickly look up an idea when needed.

The book also has a hardback cover and a ribbon marker, so you can quickly find that one assignment or question. The book is nicely finished.

The booklet also contains quite a few blank pages. You can use these to write down your own ideas and add your favourite questions and assignments, or jot down other notes, of course.

Book: Questions and Assignments


Price


The price of this booklet is striking. It costs 59.95 euros. That is quite expensive for a book about photography. This is not an ordinary photography book, though. It contains no camera settings and not even any photos.

The book is really only about the questions and assignments you can use during your shoots.

If you want to specialise in this kind of family shoot, I can imagine that the investment is more than worthwhile. For photographers who only occasionally take a photo of a family member, this booklet is probably less interesting.

» Order directly from Peter and Corine (Use the code PHOTOFACTS for free delivery)

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Peter also demonstrates the technique covered in this booklet in his course on Photofacts Academy. As a Photofacts Academy member, you have direct access to this course and more than 80 other photography courses. You can also take the course on its own.

» Spontaneous Portraits Without Posing


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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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1 comment

  1. Fred Noomen
    Fred Noomen wrote on Tuesday 13 April 2021 at 12:26  | reply

    I fear there will be little interest at this price, especially since there are no sample photos in it. And that is an absolute shame !

    Translated from Dutch.

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