show, don’t tell

jenmielbrecht

begin tangent I realized that I'm way overdue for a shooting tips (for moms) post, so here is one for you. Keep an eye out, too, as I have a couple exciting announcements to put up soon, like yesterday, about an upcoming event and an exciting new look! end tangent You may not recognize this … [Read more...]

shooting modes

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Last week it rained, and then we left town.  I was going to be gone this week, too.  So instead of sharing fun pictures this week, I figured it was time to go back to talking about the scary numbers and controls on your camera.  Last time I did this, I tried to explain about the ISO/shutter … [Read more...]

the semi-holy trinity

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No worries, this isn't a religious post, unless you consider photography a religion, in which case we need to talk about other issues... some other time. No, I wanted to return to what I alluded to in my nifty fifty post--an exploration of scary words like aperture. I'll just say right up front … [Read more...]

one of my favorite lenses

All right, after my "ask me" post, one of the questions I was asked was about lenses. Because when you buy yourself an expensive camera, once you kind of get settled in with it, your thoughts turn to upgrading your lenses, which gets very expensive very quickly. Really good lenses will cost more … [Read more...]

now, get them on the computer

I promised you some more shooting tips, so here you go. Actually, today is not necessarily shooting tips, but it's just as important. Remember when I told you to take lots of pictures? What do you do next? If they stay in your camera or on the memory card, they're trapped and not doing anyone any … [Read more...]