Let’s go over a few tips to make your fall session the best yet!
Category Archives: Photo Tips
Today we are finishing up our series to help you get better images when you are taking photographs. Here are the only 5 things you need to know to get better images… Today we’re talking about Composition. What is composition? Composition is the layout of your image and how the people and objects are placed...
We are continuing our series to help you get better images when you are taking photographs. Here are the only 5 things you need to know to get better images… Today we’re talking about focus. What is focus? In photography, it’s practically married to sharpness. An image that is completely sharp at the point in...
We are continuing our series to help you get better images when you are taking photographs. Here are the only 5 things you need to know to get better images… Today we’re talking about perspective. Perspective is the spatial connection between objects in a photo. This can mean a subject and a building, or just...
We are continuing our series to help you get better images when you are taking photographs. Here are the only 5 things you need to know to get better images… Today we’re talking about Lighting. First, the golden hour. We have talked about this in the past, but it truly is one of the number...
We are going to start a new series to help you get better images when you are taking photographs. Here are the only 5 things you need to know to get better images… In each of the next five tips blog posts we will go into more depth about one of them. So let’s get...
If you are anything like me, you have a ton of digital images and don’t know what to do with them. One of the very best purchase I have ever made from Amazon was a Nixplay digital frame. I have now bought 3 of them. And I absolutely love them. The larger the better, because...
This month we’re going to chat about the best places to do a summertime photo session. There are lots of options when it comes to looking for session ideas and locations in the summer. A great place to start is your own back yard! That way you can come and go from the cool inside...
Lately we have had a lot of questions about having hair and makeup done for sessions. We have worked with many makeup artists over the years, so we have plenty of recommendations if you would like one. All of the hair and makeup artists we recommend have experience with how photography affects makeup. It is...
Let’s talk about how to get that beautiful blur in the background of a photo. That blur is called bokeh. Bokeh is the byproduct of a lens’ various properties, including aperture, and focal length. Good bokeh is important for large aperture lenses, macro lenses, and long telephoto lenses. These lenses all need to obtain shallow...