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This morning I received an email update that Clickin’ Moms registration for Shooting 301: Composition and Creativity Workshop was open for general registration. (Of course, now it is sold out.) I briefly considered registering as I would absolutely love to take one of their fabulous workshops, however the price is too steep. Instead of getting ( Read more... )

What makes a rock band or concert pianist great? Certainly passion and talent play a huge role, but this alone won’t yield a perfect performance nor will it improve the artist. Only practice allows an artist to become better and deliver consistent results.

The same is true of photography. Even if you know how to manually expose a shot, if you don ( Read more... )

I’m not sure if it’s fair to say that having kids turned my brain to mush, however I can tell you before having kids I used to read 5-8 books a week, usually two or three at a time. Now I’m really lucky if I read 5-8 books a year.
Understanding Exposure


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Earlier this week in Digital Photo Magazine, I read Experimenting with Shutter Speed with Bryan Peterson, author of amazing photography books such as Understanding Exposure and Understanding Shutter Speed. I have four books of his, including the two I just mentioned, and I love his writing style and enthusiasm for photography.

In the article, he ( Read more... )

On Monday, I opened an email from Digital Photography School informing me that they are having a self-portrait challenge this week hosted by self-portrait photographer, Anna Gay.

I feel like I’ve been in a bit of a photography slump lately, so I embraced the challenge and decided to participate!
Props

The first of three challenges was PROPS. The ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, I read Elena’s tips for jumping self-portraits in the Selfie Saturdays feature on her blog.

If you’ve been around here a while, you’ll know I continually link to Elena and whine about not participating in her self-portrait challenges due to lack of motivation being too busy an inability to be creative whatever reason.


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I was hopeful that by tackling a weekly photo project this year instead of a daily one I’d be able to keep up. Unfortunately around the time of my last project entry at the beginning of the month I was juggling too many things. My son being in the ER and then home for the rest of the week threw me behind immensely though obviously he is my first ( Read more... )

The other day, I experienced something really strange when using my macro extension tubes with my 50mm lens.

When I attached my 50mm lens to the 12mm extension tube on my camera, the first shot worked fine. The light meter registered as expected and all looked normal.

After the first shot, the view through the lens suddenly got dim. There’s a ( Read more... )