Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
Here’s something about me that will come as no surprise to anybody: I take a lot of photos. Mostly of my children, and also of other things, but mostly of my kids. I started accumulating photos of Emilia when she was about three seconds old – I didn’t actually take those first photos, mind you, [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
1. Use The Lowest ISO That You Can I know, I know. I haven’t explained ISO here yet. I explained it awhile ago on my personal site but the writing is old and cringe-worthy. I will keep this short and sweet for the purposes of this tutorial. The lower the ISO, the sharper your photo. [...]
1. Use Whiskey No, not the beverage; the word. Unless, of course, a shot of whiskey is your thing. If you try to make your kids smile by telling them to say “cheese” their smiles will look, well, cheesy. If you have them say “whiskey” (or “monkey” if you have an adverse reaction to whiskey), [...]
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