photography

Beginning Photographer? Check Out this Book

September 8, 2011

Photographing People, by Haje Jan Kamps, recently arrived on my desk for reviewing. The timing is great – this is the time of the year when moms want to document some fabulous firsts. The first day of school, first soccer game, first dance class. (We had our first dance class today and I have never [...]

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Posing Couples the Harlequin Way

September 6, 2011

Hear me out on this before you click away thinking the Texas heat has gone to my head… Posing for photography is hard, but so important, right? We want our images to celebrate that emotional connection that makes a photo so much more than a record of two people who stood together in a pretty [...]

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Makin It Work ~ In Tight Spaces

July 26, 2011

Today, wayoutnumbered is visiting Texas Chicks with another excellent post in her Makin It Work series. Thank you, wayoutnumbered! So if you’ve read the first two posts in my Makin It Work series, you may have sensed a theme here? As much as I would love for all my photo sessions to be filled with glorious [...]

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Tips for Getting the Most out of Window Light

July 1, 2011

Don’t you love shooting in homes that have perfect windows? The main window that I used in each of the following photos is on the right side of the photos. But the room essentially had 1.5 walls of windows, so there was an enviable amount of light. I had fun experimenting with the different looks [...]

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How Beth Jansen tells her clients to dress for shoots

June 24, 2011

Beth Jansen is an incredible photographer. I love the colors that show through in her photography. Both in the scenes that she sets and the way her clients dress. So I was thrilled when she appeared on the current version of Photovision 2011 (#86) looking through clothes that a client brought for a shoot. She [...]

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Photoshop Elements Workflow Order

May 27, 2011

Workflow order in Photoshop Elements causes many people stress. Too much stress, in my opinion. Last week, I wrote about Lightroom workflow and suggested that the order of your edits isn’t all that important. Lightroom works differently from Elements, and I wouldn’t go so far as to say that workflow is unimportant in Elements, but [...]

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What I Learned About Photography at the Royal Wedding

May 5, 2011

I am home from my trip to England and still coming down off cloud 9. None of the photos I got will make the cover of Newsweek, but they will always be treasures to me and reminders of a perfect vacation with a wonderful friend. The crowds made the shooting conditions less than ideal, but [...]

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How to Fit a Huge Family in One Image and More Tips from Photovision 85

May 3, 2011

Since I will be at the Royal Wedding for a few days, I have scheduled some posts to run in my absence. If you have questions for me while I’m gone, I will answer them when I return the first week of May. Photovision issue 85 arrived several weeks ago. I had watched most of [...]

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UK Photography Workshop

April 28, 2011

Since I will be at the Royal Wedding for a few days, I have scheduled some posts to run in my absence. If you have questions for me while I’m gone, I will answer them when I return the first week of May. Today I am running around in London scoping out my plan for [...]

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Makin’ It Work ~ Using 1 Studio Light

April 27, 2011

Since I will be at the Royal Wedding for a few days, I have scheduled some posts to run in my absence. If you have questions for me while I’m gone, I will answer them when I return the first week of May. Choose the answer that best describes why you don’t shoot with studio [...]

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New Free Action for Photoshop Elements

April 15, 2011

Patti Brown, from Kaleidoscope, recently released a free action for full Photoshop for her readers. You all know how much I love Patti Brown. Her textures are gorgeous, but her light overlays – oh, they are what truly rock my image editing. You can add sunbeams or bokeh to your images, and transform your image [...]

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Find the 2nd Catchlight, then Shoot

March 28, 2011

Catchlights, as we all know by now, are one of the most important elements in any portrait. And lighting your subject from the side is a common portrait technique in natural light photography, but one that can be a bit tricky. The problem, when shooting with side lighting, is that one side of your subject’s [...]

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Instant Creativity Boost: Expressive Photography by the Shutter Sisters

March 9, 2011

I love the Shutter Sisters style of photography. It’s contemplative, peaceful, emotional, meaningful. Their book, Expressive Photography, is a relaxing meditation on how to introduce this style into your own photographic life. No complicated theory, just suggestions, ideas and encouragements leading you to realize that you have these photos in you already. The book is [...]

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Clickin’ Moms Sale Ends Monday

January 28, 2011

For those of you who haven’t joined Clickin’ Moms yet, the 20% sale ends Monday. Use discount code FRIEND if you’d like to save 20% on any membership. What’s going on there lately? The current conversation at the top of the threads is about getting great portraits out of kids. There are some hilarious ideas [...]

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