3 things to help with the end of summer blues: – Spend as much time as you can outdoors enjoying the pool, beach, parks, and other outdoor activities – Throw an end of summer party and get your child involved – Create a giant calendar and mark off school and work holidays. Then choose dates...
Stop making this mistake! – skipping family photos. They are so crucial to your child’s self esteem. Placing a photo on our wall shows that we’re proud of our family and its members. It says they’re important. That they are enough just as they are and we couldn’t be happier with having them. (This goes...
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...
Did you know that Kara Powell Photography offers design services? We have had several of our clients call us and need things that weren’t necessarily taking photography related. They needed holiday cards created, a wedding album made from past digital images, wall images resized and reframed, or a baby album made ten years later. So...
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 know me and my crazy family. You know that we move a lot. And by a lot I mean every 5-8 years or so. We like to find new houses and upgrade. I wish that meant we didn’t have a lot of stuff to move. It doesn’t. We have a LOT. So we...
It is kinda like Oprah’s favorite things, but I am no where near Oprah. But I love to share some of my favorite finds from Amazon lately. Just in case you don’t know about them yet. I love to shop online. (Why put on clothes and go out!) Especially when I am swamped taking family...
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...
