Category Archives: Taking Pictures

The Good Delusion

“Advice from friends is like the weather. Some of it’s good, some of it’s bad.” -Anonymous I get emails from folks saying things like “my friends say I’m really good – what do you think?” and I’m really not sure what they’re asking or how much criticism they’re able to take. Seems to me that...

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Does having your work critiqued sound scary? {video of two critiques}

When I posted recently to share the link to my Chic Critique, I got one response: “that scares me”. I agree. It scares me, too! I get emails quite a lot showing me photos and asking me what I think. I don’t usually answer them because I never know where the person is coming from,...

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How to photograph your Christmas tree {how to get twinkle bursts of light}

With Christmas upon us, it’s time to break out our cameras and try our darndest to get photos of our Christmas trees but it can be so hard to capture the real warmth and ambiance of all those beautiful little lights. If you twiddle with manual shooting, you may be trying to photograph your tree...

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Session Wrap-Up – 3 siblings in the forest {lots of luscious bokeh ahead!}

When I found out that these three gorgeous children were being brought from three hours away for their mini session with me, I was pretty honored. So here is the session round-up with a few shots worth mentioning. Camera: 5DmkII Lens: 50mm f/1.2 Weather: slightly cloudy, 3 hours before sundown Processed: Florabella Luxe II  ...

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Beloved

I’ve promised for a long time that I’m going to talk about Beloved. I mentioned it last week in this post about using the Beloved concept for the first time in a family session and it was very successful. I discovered Beloved by way of The Rock n Roll Bride blog when blogger Kat and...

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Session Wrap-Up – Family session using the Beloved concept

This session was so touching I just had to jump on the wrap-up over here on my blog ASAP because I wanted to share the way I approached the whole thing before I forget! I’ve been looking into Beloved a lot lately and will write more about it very soon. But in short, Beloved is...

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First and second curtain flash in plain english

The wonderful world of flash is truly never ending. If you’ve ever been to Strobist, you may have experienced the mind-boggling amount of information there about flash photography and not known where on earth to begin. One of the most important things to get to know if you want to use flash photography at events...

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Fun With Photography: Long Exposure

There are so many things I’ve always wanted to play with but haven’t had the chance. One of them is long exposure times, particularly with night scenes. The other night our youth group had a ‘light party’ and while they were outside I played inside and this was the result: {How I took it} Canon...

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