Tag Archives: about your camera

shooting modes

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...

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the semi-holy trinity

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 that although...

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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 than your...

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check out this cool resource

Are you interested in not just taking better pictures, but in taking more evocative pictures? Moms are the same everywhere, aren’t we? There is a sweet verse about Mary, who “treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.” We all do that. We see our babies differently than anyone else, with a...

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take more, they’re free

I’ve been having these visions lately of sharing photography and photography related tips with… well, honestly, with anyone who will listen. Since I don’t have a classroom (and am not likely to have one other than our little red table here at home), for a while I thought my pearls of wisdom would simply languish...

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