A Giveaway | The Portrait Cookbook

Today I am giddy with excitement to announce a rock star giveaway by the fabulous Kelly Willette. Kelly is a successful children’s photographer in Norfolk, VA who has a classic, yet timeless style. On top of her fabulous photography, Kelly has designed a set of four portrait posing guides, The Portrait Cookbook – guaranteed to help the up & coming photographer, as well as the seasoned pro looking to change things up a bit. Best of all, she is giving all four away to one lucky reader! (a $200 value!)

According to Kelly…

As a photographer, you have enough to worry about.  You should not have to enter a home and THEN formulate how you will photograph.  Just as a builder has a blueprint, a writer has an outline and a football team has a playlist, the photographer should have a plan.  That plan is The Portrait Cookbook {recipes for success}.  This list of 28 tried and proven poses for children will take the guess work out of what works and what doesn’t.  It will further give your photography more variation in poses and ideas. And you will come into the session looking like the star quarterback.

This system provides 28 “recipe cards” with a photo example of the pose in action. It also contains a checklist for room-by-room and location-by-location ideas for how to pose a child and what to do in each setting.  Your portrait sessions will become more streamlined, and you will spend less time firing your shutter, and more time getting to know the child.  Isn’t our job more about creating memorable, positive portrait sessions for our clients, and less about bumbling around trying to figure out what to do next.  When you have a plan, you are more in control of the situation.  The kiddos will be more engaged with you as you confidently move from one photo scenario to the next.

Read more about her recipes for success on her website, The Portrait Cookbook.

How to win…

The giveaway will be chosen by random this Friday evening at 9pm PST. Shout out as much as possible for multiple entries to win. Just be sure to leave a separate comment for each shout out/entry for it to count.

• Comment letting Kelly know how awesome she is and how much you’d LOVE her Potrait Cookbook!

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There’s more…

Kelly has generously offered a discount code to the readers of TCM – enter CREATIVEMAMA at check out for $10 off! This code is good through November 7. Thanks so much Kelly!