Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
I wrote about how to take photos with a blurry background a few years ago on my personal site and I still get daily Google hits for people searching for how to do just that – take photos with a blurry background. I’ve been waiting for spring to arrive so that I could take new [...]
Anyone can pick up a camera and take pictures. To call yourself a Photographer, you need to take it one step further and put some thought into what you are doing. Then you get to call them photos. Or something. To cut to the chase, some people keep snapping photos with no thought to composition [...]
I don’t know about the rest of you photogs, especially those of you who are buried in winter from October until March of every year (Hi, Saskatchewan!)(And Alberta!)(And Manitoba!)(And…oh, heck. Most of Canada and half of the States), but I find that I don’t take many photos in the colder months. I have an external [...]
I am sure that you already know about Photojojo but in case you don’t, I am here to share the Photojojo mojo with you. What is Photojojo? LET ME TELL YOU. Photojojo is a website written by…wait. I have no idea who it’s written by. Let me go look. Aha! Photojojo is written by Amit [...]
Here is where I admit that I am not a big Valentine’s Day fan. I’m not sure if it stems from the memory of hoping that I would get a Valentine from certain boys in my class or from those years as a single girl in Vancouver wondering where my Prince Charming was or if [...]
Most of eastern Canada and the U.S. have been at the whim of a snow storm affectionately referred to as Snowpocalypse or Snowmaggedon or SNOMG or (fill in the blank). Schools and offices are closed and parents everywhere are going stir crazy trapped at home with their children and wondering WHAT TO DO NEXT? I [...]
I don’t know about you, but I happen to love macro photography. There’s something to be said about that closer perspective and how the rest of the world seems to fade away. I can get lost for way too much time taking macro photos but I can’t help it – it’s almost like being in [...]
One of the best things about writing photography topics for The Bad Moms Club (aside from the rock star cast of writers I am honoured to be a part of) is that it forces me to make time to try new things, photography-wise. There is so much that I want to do and to learn [...]
People often wonder how they can focus on a particular portion of the frame, like on the eyes of your child instead of, say, the tree in the background. When you are using the automatic settings on your camera, you might notice that when you push the shutter button halfway down, the focus would not [...]
The rush of Christmas is now over and you may find yourself in the possession of a new camera, or newly inspired to pick up your camera and do more with it. This is as good of a time as any to get back into the technical side of how to shoot manually. We’ve talked [...]
I realize that I’ve written two different posts on how to use your iPhone camera apps to do neat things with photos, but (gasp!) not everybody has an iPhone. Could there possibly be a way to use your computer to make your photos look old fashioned and/or like Polaroids, even if you don’t have fancy [...]
Yes, I know that I posted about my favorite iPhone camera apps months ago but (nobody wants a photo tutorial TWO DAYS before Christmas, and) I am completely smitten with the Instagram App. It reminds me of Flickr back when I joined five (!) years ago; it has brought back the community feel and there [...]
I’m sure that the majority of you know what bokeh is, but if not, I can tell you what “bokeh” means. Bokeh is the really blurry, kind of funky, background in a photo that may or may not include lights or shapes or random swirls. (If you want the official definition, may I offer up [...]
So…there’s this holiday coming up that is commonly referred to as “Christmas”. If you’re not one to partake in said holiday, you might celebrate Hanukkah or one of the other many celebrations that happen in December. And, if you’re Canadian, you might also be a lover of Boxing Day sales (the equivalent to American Black [...]
I don’t know about the rest of you photography lovers who also happen to be Moms, but there are very few photos of me with my husband or my kids or the whole gaggle of us together. It’s not that I am against getting my photograph taken, not at all, it’s just that I’m the [...]
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