Pregnancy Photo-Recipe in the Midst of Real Life!
August 17th, 2010
The Joy of Photographing Real Life!
August 13th, 2010
Three Examples when Shooting Senior Portraits w/a Guy!
On Monday, I posted the August Photography Assignment for our SOAR! ladies! It was all about using Textures to enhance Senior Portrait shoots. Have you checked out the results from our three SOAR! Recipients?! They are amazing! And to my surprise, they ALL ended up working with guys! Lots of photographers feel like working with [...]
August 2nd, 2010
Slowing Your Shutter Speed Down to Capture Romance!
How to Capture Blur Intentionally
Carey Schumacher, owner of Barefoot Memories, is our guest photographer today! She’s an AMAZING everything – mom, photographer, friend. You can read more about her from her interview a few months ago. Thank you Carey so much for stepping in with some on-the-spot coaching! __________________________________________ There I was on the morning of Father’s Day, waiting [...]
June 3rd, 2010
Part 3: Photo Tips for Family Portraits! (Seattle CONFIDENCE Photography Workshop for Women)
We had the most AMAZING Memorial Day weekend with our CONFIDENCE Workshop in NY! I can’t wait to post up some Behind the Scene photos for you! But first, I still need to show you Part 3 from the Seattle CONFIDENCE Workshop! Here are some QUICK FRESH PHOTO TIPS to working with families! I like [...]
Are you ready for Part 2?!! Happy Monday Friends! Let’s start the week off with one of my favorite populations to photograph! High School Seniors! But let’s start from the beginning of Day 2 of the CONFIDENCE Photography Workshop! We started the day with demystifying the whole concept of metering. For some reason, the photography [...]
May 10th, 2010
Photography Exercise! Less is More!
Today is the second Monday of the month which means there is a NEW Photography Exercise at the SOAR! blog this morning! Yeah!! I’m teaching on the concept of Less is More, and how to apply this to our images. I’m not talking about cropping your images on the computer. That works in the beginning, [...]
January 28th, 2010
A Main Ingredient to Successful Business!
You may not like me when I say it, but there is no way around it. One of the main ingredients to a Successful Business is Exercise! Have you made a New Year’s Resolution to be in better shape? It’s never to late! I’m not talking about Barbie Doll shape or those Size 6’s that [...]
October 27th, 2009
Photo Tips on Depth of Field: Answering Your “Unexpected Image” Questions!
Last week a number of you posted some great questions regarding the Unexpected Image. The biggest theme I noticed in the main questions from Kelly, Carrie and Alejandra was understanding Depth of Field. In essence, many of you asked, “How could I use a 1.7 fstop and have the dog in focus and the couple [...]
October 20th, 2009
The Unexpected Image!
Yeah! The blog is back up and working again. Thanks for shooting us emails or pinging us on Facebook and letting us know things weren’t working right! This weekend I had a wonderful reminder in how much joy the unexpected image can bring. It started with flying to a place I’ve never been, Charlottesville, Virginia. [...]
