Cropping. It's a good thing.

Capturing Traditions

Lensbaby and Photowalk Plug
I got a chance to go up to Salt Lake City yesterday, and play with a Lensbaby optic. If you are unfamiliar with what this is, as I was, it is a manual lens that you screw onto your camera and it creates a really fun blurring action and sun flares. It is definitely a toy, and not a must have lens, in my opinion. But it sure was fun! I have a few more photography items that are higher up on my must hav

Avoiding Shadows
I love checking my email and finding a question from a reader. It really makes my day! This morning I received this wonderful question: I took an awesome picture of my daughter the other day while she was outside and when I got in the house I noticed there were big shadows on the side of her face. I don’t really mind in this particular picture, because it is so good, but my question is how do you not get shadow on a sunny day? Do they have to look straight into the direction of the sun or what? Thanks for your help!

Underwater in Mexico and other Musings…
So my friend Scott is in Mexico right now. He is an amazing photographer and just wrote up cool little post about using a point and shoot with underwater houseing while on his trip. I thought some of you might be interested in reading his post. He has some cool photos and some interesting points. Check out his post here. One another note… I have been feeling kind of sentimental lately about photography. This is October 2010 and that marks the two year anniversary since my initial decision to start to learn this crazy a

NICU Photography
Yoanna's beautiful daughter in the NICU. Photo courtesy Yoanna. I received an email last night from Yoanna, a new mother in London. This is what she said: My daughter was born July 24th, 2009 and she is still in the NICU here in London.. I have taken some photos of her but havent been able to take “good” ones because she is on so many tu