Photographing Families: Designing Custom Portraits with Character & Style

Photographing Families: Designing Custom Portraits with Character & Style by Elizabeth Homan and Trey Homan
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1608959295 | 128 pages | EPUB | 175 MB

Traditional portrait photographers, for centuries, have relied upon lighting and posing conventions that were largely based on the aesthetic ideals set forth by Master painters and sculptors. The results of their rigid approach to depicting the family resulted in a cookie-cutter look to portraiture. The subjects were beautifully lit, stiffly posed, and, well, proper. The resulting image presented a likeness of each family member but did not speak to the inner lives of the subjects.

Today, portraiture has changed along with the modern family. Families want portraits that make a statement—an image that tells viewers a story about the subjects who have gathered together in front of the camera. These portraits have a looser, “lifestyle” feel and are made, as they have traditionally been, inside of a photographic studio. Today, however, these portraits are also often captured in the family home, at an outdoor location—whether at the beach or in the heart of the city, or some other location that has personal meaning to the family.

In this book, Elizabeth and Trey present 60 of their favorite and most diverse family portraits, showing you the art and technique of creating highly salable portraits. With every captivating image, you’ll learn how the Homans masterfully orchestrated the technical and artistic aspects of the portrait, from the location or backdrop selection, to the overall compositional qualities, to the arrangement of the group in the scene, to the individual poses. You’ll also learn the strategies Elizabeth and Trey used to create natural poses that contribute to the feel of the portrait and will learn how the lighting (studio light, existing light, and natural light) was harnessed to create a polished, professional portrait.

Perhaps one of the big challenges of photographing families is that no family grouping or family dynamic is the same. This book will arm you with the tools you need to work with the smallest to largest groupings, including a wide range of subjects, from newborns to the elderly.

Contemporary Families: Translating Research Into Practice

Contemporary Families: Translating Research Into Practice (Family Therapy and Counseling) by Scott Browning and Kay Pasley
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0415711630, 0415711622 | 338 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB

Written for researchers, practitioners, and students in advanced courses, this book furthers our understanding of the complexity of contemporary families. Seven types of families are the focus of this book, based on the research available and the challenges they present for mental health professionals. The family forms discussed are

• Adoption

• Foster care

• Interracial families

• Family members with special needs (with a focus on autism)

• Families with LGBTQ members

• Grandparent-headed Families

• Family members with chronic medical conditions

The volume establishes an innovative format that fits the new age of evidence-based practice. Each chapter is written by a collaborative team of authors consisting of researchers and practitioners. The former address the prevalence and characteristics of the family form and then present the research findings most relevant to clinical practice; the latter use this as the foundation for their portion of the chapter, in which they discuss strategies for good therapeutic intervention, representing a true integration of science and practice. Readers learn about relevant research findings regarding each family described, as well as gain explicit instruction and case material for which to augment therapeutic efforts with these populations.

Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering and Adoption

Creating New Families: Therapeutic Approaches to Fostering and Adoption (The Tavistock Clinic Series) by Caroline Lindsey and Jenny Kendricks
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1855759357 | 250 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB

Written for a professional readership, Creating New Families will be of interest to those directly involved in the fields of fostering and adoption. It represents best practice from the multidisciplinary Fostering and Adoption Team at the Tavistock Clinic Children and Families Department. Contents include: Theoretical Considerations; Treatment which focuses on the Child; Treatment which focuses on Parents and Families; Consultation; Work in different settings; Last word from a parent.

Contributors: Professor Lionel Hersov, Rita Harris, Sally Hodges, Sara Barratt, Miriam Steele, Hamish Canham, Laverne Antrobus, Juliet Hopkins, Margaret Rustin, Julia Granville, Louise Emanuel, Graham Music.