Tuesday’s Tip – Mini Assignments
With being back to the blog on a regular basis, I also thought it was time that we returned to some of our “regular” blog items, including Tuesday’s Tips! I often find that when I’m busy it’s hard to...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – Oh What to Do?
One of the questions I ask my clients most often when they are inquiring about portraits is, “What do you plan to do with them?” Often, people decide to have professional portraits taken out of a sense...
View ArticleTuesday Tip – Getting Techy about Photography
A couple of weeks ago, Craig asked us about photographing kids in low light. I started writing this post and discovered that there are so many technical details to the answer that I needed to write a...
View ArticleTuesday’s tip – Aperture
Here is part one of the technical stuff from last week’s tip about photographing kids in low light. In order to properly answer any question in photography you have to know about aperture, shutter...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – Shutter Speed
Last week I talked about aperture: the size of the opening in your lens that light can come through. This week is all about the amount of time that light comes through the aperture. If you’ve got lots...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – ISO or Sensitivity
This week’s tutorial is about ISO or film speed or sensitivity or ASA… There’s lots of names for “how sensitive your camera’s sensor is to light.” Most cameras have a sensitivity of either 100 or 200...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – Add More Light
We’ve had three weeks of specific lessons on basic camera principles. Aperture, the size of the opening that light comes through. Shutter Speed, the amount of time that light goes through the aperture....
View ArticleTuesday’s tip – Food Photography
Two years ago, Katrina made Cinnamon Buns. She told me that before I ate them, I had to photograph them. On that occasion, it was a quick shot with window light and a reflector. Saturday night, when it...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – Use a Filter
Last week, there was an article in our local paper about Len McGregor. He’s 82 and has had his photography business for over 60 years. 60 YEARS. That is simply amazing and I can only imagine the...
View ArticleTuesday’s tip – How Dirty is your Sensor?
I borrowed a camera last week so that I could shoot some video. This is how dirty the sensor was: That’s a shot of the blue sky, with nothing in it. The black bits are dust, hair and I don’t even want...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – Getting Creative
As some of you may know, Eric and I met at a photography “conference”. Really it’s a professional development school for photographers called Image Explorations, or IE as we like to call it It’s a...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – The Canon/Nikon Debate
I got a text message from a friend the other day asking advice about a camera she was getting her husband for his birthday. She was asking, which is better, Canon or Nikon? My answer – it doesn’t...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – That Time of Year
The “end” of summer is upon us and it’s back to school today for many people. Eric’s back to teaching, so life here will become a little different, as he’s had a lot of time at home this summer. I have...
View ArticleTueday’s Tip – Why Invest in Professional Portraits?
I think this is about my 15th try at getting this post “right”… let’s hope this one sticks! On Friday, my dad was helping my mom get some stuff down from the attic. He was on the last rung of a ladder,...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – Working with Kids
The other day, Eric met with another photographer to buy a new camera bag for us. (In my ever so humble opinion, we didn’t need one, but it is nice!) As they were chatting back and forth about the type...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – Taking Photos at the Pumpkin Patch
On Sunday, we took the girls to the pumpkin patch at Laity Farms. There are several places throughout the farm that are setup for cute photo opportunities. At each of these stations, I saw long lines,...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – Put a Camera in Their Hands
Sorry it’s been so long since our last tips post. I have lots of ideas of things that I want to share… but then I think, “Do people really want to know that?”, so I begin to doubt myself and then the...
View ArticleTuesday’s Tip – What Matters Most in a Photograph
There are probably a million and one technical things that I could write in this post. It would be about camera settings, exposure, light etc., and while I know how to control all those things, I don’t...
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