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Food Photography Tips

January 5, 2011

Food photography tips were, ummm, flowing in abundance here last week. I have more for you today. Smart Flour Foods hired to to work up some product shots for their website. I shot these images outside, to maximize light. I also used my Speedlight as a fill flash for some shots. I’m just getting to [...]

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Photography for Scrapbooks: My December Daily

December 30, 2010

Photography of our daily lives really shines in December and it’s the perfect time to put those photos in a scrapbook. This year I followed Ali Edwards’ December Daily. I didn’t post about it here because I honestly wasn’t confident that I’d follow through with it. But I just finished! The point of December Daily [...]

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The Most Enjoyable Photo Shoot Ever (Hiccup)

December 16, 2010

Food photography has a sub-genre that I had never thought about before. Cocktail photography. I think I could become a specialist. My friend Janis has written a book called Take a Shot. It involves a woman trying to find balance in her life after introducing marriage and children to a successful career. Sounds familiar, right? [...]

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Photography Workshops: Raul Touzon

December 8, 2010

Photography workshops come in as many flavors as there are cookies floating around this holiday season. Some classes are in person, others are online. They encompass many different types of photography. Some teachers present loads of education and practice in a warm and encouraging workshop environment. Others concentrate on identifying and improving areas of weakness [...]

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Photography Video Tutorials and Business Card Recommendations

October 9, 2010

Photography video tutorials rock! Don’t you agree? These PhotoVision videos have been keeping me up too late! On the advice of Kendra, the founder of Clickin’ Moms, I bought Photovision’s 2010 Series. It’s normally $149 but is currently selling for $39 with discount code PVFAN. I have to admit that I was expecting cheesy videos [...]

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TTV Photography (Through the Viewfinder)

September 9, 2010

TtV Photography experiments have been keeping me busy since the kids went back to school. My latest toy is an old camera that I bought mostly to work on Through the Viewfinder photography. TtV, as it’s called, is defined an an image taken by one camera through the lens of another. You can get great [...]

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Photo Editing – Can this image be saved?

August 29, 2010

Photo editing can work miracles, but some pictures come out of the camera so bad that not even Photoshop can help them. I was worried that this image would be one of them. Before is on the left, after on the right. What do you think? Was I able to salvage it? Is it worthy [...]

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Photography at Night – Tips & Tricks For Photographing Your Family in Low Light

August 26, 2010

The photography class I’ve been taking (Bring on the Night by Austin Photography Workshops) is wrapping up tonight. I will miss the class, and the 3 hours a week dedicated to practicing with my camera. There is simply nothing like an in person class for improving skills. The subject matter was way out of the [...]

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Create Photos with Heart Shaped Bokeh

August 7, 2010

Nighttime Photography is the latest class hosted by Austin Photography Workshops that I’ve participated in. I love it and have learned lots of juicy tidbits about getting great shots at night, some of which I’ll share next week. The lights at night have so far been my favorite subject for photographing, and this past week [...]

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Fireworks Photography Recap

July 26, 2010

Remember my fireworks photography checklist from the 4th of July? It worked really well and I am happy with my fireworks photos. In addition to my family, we were with a group of friends, two of whom are photographers also. We had a competition where we asked our other friends to judge whose photos were [...]

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Photography Tips for Fireworks

July 2, 2010

Is photography on your agenda for those of you in the states this holiday weekend? Last year was the first time I put serious effort into photographing fireworks. This year, I’m going to incorporate everything I learned into the my photo workflow: Use a tripod. This is the key to crisp photos at night. Using [...]

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Photography Inspiration

June 30, 2010

Without photographic inspiration, I sometimes get bored with my images. It usually only takes a quick internet surf to get me back in the mood with new goals and ideas for my photographic journey. Kelly Willette’s Finding the Joy workshop, which I’m taking right now, is also a great source of inspiration. You can read [...]

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I Heart Faces Photo Walk

June 13, 2010

The Photo Walk sponsored by I Heart Faces last weekend was a blast! How many of you participated in your local walk? So many nice women attended this walk, and we had 4 awesome models. Not to mention Steve, a friendly street musician. And I learned something about myself as a photographer too. I will [...]

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The Light Workshop – Final Review

June 6, 2010

Detra’s Light Workshop went on for most of the spring, and it’s time for my final reflections on it. You can read my first posts about it here and here. I have received several emails and seen detailed discussion at Clickin’ Moms about this workshop. Here is my two cents worth. Disclosure before we go [...]

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