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My love of Instagram is not a new topic for me here at The Bad Moms Club, as you all know. On January 1st, as I was winding down for bed and surfing IG, I saw so many of my friends posting self-portraits with the hashtag #janphotoaday. I found the list of prompts and thought [...]
Being Canadian, my photography goes into hibernation in the winter. I love natural light, which makes it hard to take photos, especially when I’m working in an office during all of the daylight hours. But! The sun has emerged from her slumber and the snow is melting into little rivers and, oh. I find myself [...]
Being a photographer, I often read posts and articles on improving my craft, and one suggestion is to participate in a photo challenge. A lot of people to the 365 (or 366, in 2012) challenge, which is a photo a day for a year, and … no thanks. When I worked from home, I may [...]
My love for Photojojo is not a new topic here, and I even included their iPhone lenses in my photography gift guide. Well, guess what? I GOT THOSE LENSES FOR CHRISTMAS. (I’m not yelling. I’m just excited.) For the past five Christmases or so I’ve requested (and received) some pretty great camera gear. My 70D, [...]
My (new) sister-in-law is in her second year of acting school and has done modeling on the side. I did the wedding photos for her and my brother on their big day and she asked me to take some headshots for her before she heads back to the Big City. I could have used my [...]
You’ve probably figured this out by now, but taking photos in bright sunshine isn’t the best for portraits. Squinty eyes, harsh shadows and the wrong colour temperature mean that while you can most definitely capture moments, great portraits aren’t going to happen. Good ones, maybe, but not great ones. Light really is King when it [...]
I’m not sure if all of you reading this celebrate Easter, but my family and I do. It involves an egg hunt and a basket of chocolate treats (Aside: My daughter asked me where the Easter Bunny gets his chocolate. I DON’T KNOW. I told her he probably got it at Wal-Mart), and it involves [...]
I’ve been writing photography posts here at Club du Bad Mom since last July (!) and I’m at the point where (my brain is fried thanks to tax season – I’m an accountant), and I’m not sure what you want me to write/teach about. I’ve covered some technical stuff: Bad Moms Learn That Aperture Is [...]
I’m not sure about the rest of you guys, but sometimes my days (weeks, moths, LIFE) are so busy that I barely have time to take photos. Then when I do have the time, part of me hesitates. It’s not that I don’t want to take the photos, no, but that I don’t know when [...]
I’m not talking about hiding a video camera and playing tricks on your children, though now that I mention it, that could be a lot of fun. No, I’m talking about getting away from both the traditional poses and the artsy poses and simply catching candid moments. I’m as guilty as everyone else for telling [...]
I don’t know about you guys, but I can take 200 photos in a day. TWO HUNDRED PHOTOS IN ONE DAY. This doesn’t happen so much in the winter (how many sledding photos can one take?) and it doesn’t happen every day in the summer, either. But it happens. It’s not as though I’m shooting [...]
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 [...]
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