Recent Posts Tagged With 'Photograph'

• Photo of the Week - Week ending 2-14-09 - Alana’s Valentines Card

  Posted on Monday February 16th, 2009 at 23:00 in children, love, happy, modern, card, cute, Photograph, classic, child, girl, holiday, portrait

  Congratulations goes out this week to Carina Olsen for her submission “Alana’s Valentines Card“. I just thought that it was a very cute idea. It reminded me of the cards we used to give out in grade school to all of our classmates a...

• Spotlight interview with Kara May

  Posted on Thursday February 5th, 2009 at 23:00 in children, kids, babies, Photograph, composition, portraits, portrait, bright, colorful, portraiture, natural light, beautiful light

  One of the things that I love so much about places like flickr is that you find such a vast variety of amazing photographers. Some of these photographers are known for their subject matter, others for their look, some for both. Kara May is here today...

• Ten ways to get your subjects to relax for you

  Posted on Saturday January 3rd, 2009 at 19:51 in lists, children, how to, Natural, babies, pets, customer service, teens, confidence, Photograph, portraits, picture

  Ever have problems getting your subjects to relax? Here’s a quick list of ten different groups and ways you can get all of them to loosen up a bit. After years of photographing each of these, I have learned what it takes to get each to relax for me...

• Fifteen things you need for a great senior portrait - #7 - Location - Part 1

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 23:00 in outdoors, Color, Photograph, beautiful, scenic, senior portraits, seniors, inside, Indoors, location, perfect, colorful

  In an earlier post, in this same series, I mentioned the scenario where you have a portrait of a senior leaning against a tree. Boring. Right? Yeah, it’s boring and it’s been done too many times. In this post, I will mainly discuss locati...

• Spotlight Interview with Nicole Civita

  Posted on Thursday December 18th, 2008 at 23:00 in love, interview, Photograph, new jersey, portrait, jersey, feelings, old, italian, senior citizens, Italian food, rose

  We do not remember days, we remember moments.- Cesare Pavese Recently while spending some time on flickr, I found this beautiful portrait of an elderly woman. The image itself I found very moving. This was before I even began to read the words that...

• How to photograph an infant on their belly

  Posted on Sunday December 7th, 2008 at 23:00 in children, how to, babies, infant, Photograph, portraits, belly, textures, infants, details, portraiture, posing

  When it comes to infants, what you can do with them in regards to portariture is limited due to their lack of muscle strenth and their ability to perform normal functions such as holding their heads up. Sure you can prop them in mommy or daddy’...

• What did you call me!?! - A tip for getting three and four year olds to smile

  Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 23:00 in tips, children, kids, toys, tricks, Photograph, toddlers, portraits, picture, portrait, smile, silly

  Recently, I spent some time with several children’s portrait photographers. As the time approached that I would be spending time with these portrait photographers, I felt like I knew what I was doing and that I could show them a thing or two. Howev...

• Spotlight interview with Alecia Silva from The Portrait Place

  Posted on Friday October 24th, 2008 at 00:00 in baby, photo, Photography, children, Color, love, black and white, happy, babies, Seattle, Photograph, child

  I have been spending some time on Flickr lately. In my time there, I have found some amazing photographers. One of these photographers I found recently was Alecia Silva who has a portrait photo business called “The Portrait Place”. Her ph...

• Quick tip for getting kids to look excited in their portraits

  Posted on Monday October 20th, 2008 at 14:39 in children, kids, babies, Photograph, pics, portraits, picture, studio, smile, lighting, purple, big

  Believe it or not, Barney, yes Barney, still works wonders. It’s a trick that a master children’s photographer showed me recently. His technique worked wonders on the three and four year olds he had in front of him. If you get any kid to ...

• The emotional power of music

  Posted on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 at 00:00 in baby, photo, children, kids, pictures, happy, babies, weddings, photographs, Photograph, child, picture

   Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.- William Congreve Don’t let the title fool you. Yes, this is photography related. In fact, it is very much photography related. My thought for today’s ...

• Quick tip for getting perfectly exposed images

  Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 00:00 in white, reading, Photograph, portraits, black, lighting, snow, hard, exposure, grey, difficult, high

   A quick tip for today’s Tuesday’s Technical Tip is use your gray card. If you don’t own one, you can pick one or a pack of three to five up at any camera store. The benefit to using a gray card is that while metering TTL (through ...