Tag Archives: photography

Tuesday Tips- How to Photograph Fireworks

Image found here

In honor of the Independance Day Celebrations tommorow, todays tip is on how to get great pictures of fireworks. If you have a DSLR camera put it on a tripod. You need to use a cable release. Set your camera to manual, your shutter speed to the bulb setting, and your ISO to 100. Start with your aperature at around  f-11, then set your lens to the widest angle, ie. 16mm,24mm,28mm ect. When the fireworks shoot up press your shutter release, when the fireworks stop release your shutter release. If your images are too dark, try opening your lens more, and if they are too light shut your lens down more. And there you have it, an easy tip for getting beautiful shots at your local fireworks display show this July 4th!

Have a Happy and Safe 4th of July!

Posted in Tuesday Tips Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , |

My Life in Pictures- July 2nd

As many of you already know, our house is an animal house! We have two dogs, two indoor cat, an outdoor kitty, and 10 chickens. This week my favorite instagrams from my personal portfolio are of two of the fuzzy babies in the house. I happened to catch our Siamese kitty ,Titus, up on one of his favorite spots, the beam above the stairs in the studio. My other favorite pic from this week is of my little Italian greyhound, Sadie. She loves to sleep on top of the couch in the sun room. I love her sweet little expressions. But don’t let that cute face fool you, she’s a real hellion, and keeps us on our feet most of the time.  I’m sure you’ll be seeing a lot more of Sadie and Titus, as well as the rest of our clan soon….

Hope you all have a Happy Monday!

 

Posted in My Life in Pictures Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , |

Pin of the Week- June 28th

I fell in love with this structure while browsing through Pinterest this week! I would love to have one of these in my garden, it’s so beautiful! I am not sure of the source as it was uploaded straight to pinterest by a user, you can see it here. It looks to me like it was constructed with old windows, the stained glass window on the top really makes this little outdoor room so charming. Maybe one day I’ll have one to call my own in my garden. Until then, i’ll just have to swoon over this one.

Posted in Pin of the Week Also tagged , , , , , |

Wordless Wednesday

Posted in Wordless Wednesday Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , |

Tuesday Tips- Shoes Versus Bare Feet in Portraiture

Today’s tip is about most every girl’s favorite thing, shoes. Shoes as we all know can make an outfit, show off your personality, and make your legs look fantastic! However, they can also date a picture, and they can be really distracting. My style of portrait photography is always geared to be timeless, relaxed, and natural, and so in almost all of my portraits, my subjects have bare feet.  Most of the time I am photographing small children, and with kids especially I always prefer bare feet! If you sit a child, you are almost always going to see the soles of their shoes which isn’t pretty, but also takes your eye away from that precious little face. The sole of a shoe is never going to be attractive as the sole of a foot, and kids do the absolute cutest things with their little toes! That being said, if you just can’t live without donning your feet in your finest footwear for your portraits, make sure to use the most important rule of fashion icons; Keep it Classic Darling!

Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , |

My Life in Pictures- The State Farmers Market

Today we were able to go down to the State Farmers Market in Raleigh. This is always one of my favorite places to go, especially in the summertime when they have the best assortment of vegetabls and fruits! There is nothing quite like fresh summer tomatoes! And in our family at least, nothing better and sweeter than ripe summer watermelon(our chickens love it too!)

Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged , , , , , , , , , |