Cropping. It's a good thing.

Capturing Traditions

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

In the Mean Time…
Seriously, what is my problem?!? I’ve got all these ideas for posts but I can’t seem to get my act together and actually write them! I want to discuss learning to shoot in Manual Mode, Distracting Backgrounds, and a nifty little tip I just learned about how to make your portraits have a blurred background when you shoot with a point and shoot camera. Good stuff, huh? So why can’t I get it together?!? Well in the mean time, I want to leave you with some Senior portrait shots I took of my niece. The thing I really enjoyed was that she just started posing and having a fun time. I didn’t have to do a lot of directing and telling her wh

Mini-Clinic in SLC
This is super short notice. Sorry. TONIGHT at the SLC Library, there is a free mini-clinic called “What Makes a Great Photo”. This is presented by Photowalking Utah. I’m super excited to go and really, really, really hope that Ben can get home from work in time for me to leave. If you are in the area I hope you will come out. There’s lots of great info to learn and should be super fun! Here are the details: Date: Thursday August 27th, 2009 Time: