When I began shooting, white balance was the last thing on my mind. But as my technical skills improved, so did my eye for color. It is really amazing how things seem to come together. During the second year of doing a Project 365, one of my goals for the year was white balance. I [...]
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When I began learning about photography, portraiture was just about the only type of photography on the brain. I wanted to take better pictures of my kids, so when I learned about metering, I learned to meter off of skin because in portraiture getting the correct exposure for skin is the most important. But, when [...]
I have heard some people say they wish they had known that most of the images you are seeing from photographers are edited. They were comparing their SOOC (straight out of the camera) images to the edited ones by the pros. Don’t do this! In fact, let’s just not compare our images to anyone else’s. [...]
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When Courtney first asked me to write a guest post for “Click it up a Notch” I was really excited and honored! That feeling quickly turned into a giant writers block as I wondered what I could possibly share with so many talented photographers! But there’s one thing I always come back to when picking [...]
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It’s so easy to get caught up in trying to capture the moment that we forget to take a few easy steps to click it up a notch from a snap shot to a fun and different photograph. We are so busy during Christmas creating memories that we don’t want to miss a moment. This [...]
