Set Yourself Up For Success

By: Jennifer Little

Today is all about making your shoots at home as successful as possible. I hope to offer you some tips that will make your family shoots work for you so that you are happy with your photos for years to come.

Clear the Clutter

Keep the background and foreground simple and free of distractions. Let the focus of your photo be on your subjects. Remove miscellaneous toys, laundry, snacks and groceries from the photo. Feel free to keep large-scale architectural elements such as lamps, accessories and artwork in the photo as long as they don’t render all the attention. Clean photos will give you a fresh modern feel.

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Great Inspiring Family Photography Blogs

By: Jennifer Little

Because you can never have too much inspiration, I have posted a few blogs that are amazing at capturing family at home.

1. The Glow
2. You are my wild
3. Katie’s Pencil Box
4. Pink Pistachio
5. Little Household (our family blog)

And because you can never read too much on how your camera operates, I am sharing a few wonderful, easy to understand posts on how to use your camera.

1. Picture Taking by Katie’s Pencil Box
2. Here’s Marla… by Fly Through Our Window

If you are really looking to get serious with photography, you should hop over to CreativeLIVE and you can learn everything you ever wanted to know!

Shooting in Manual Mode: Are You Friends With Your Camera?

By: Jennifer Little

Are you friends with your camera?

In order to feel connected to your camera, you need to get to know it. Pull out your owner’s manual so that you can locate the camera settings we will discuss. Then set your camera to manual mode, and let’s discuss her strengths.

• Camera Meter: Measures how bright or dark your subject is
• Aperture: How large or small the opening of your lens is
• Shutter Speed: The speed in which your shutter opens and closes
• ISO: How sensitive your image sensor is to light

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Choosing Image File Formats for Your Blog

By guest contributor Mike Loveland.

The last step in preparing a photo for your blog is to save it in the right format. But which format should you choose?

The first thing you should remember is that any work you have done in high-resolution should be saved in high-resolution. To improve the contrast, composition, and perform any necessary retouching of an image, you need to keep all the work you have done saved at full-resolution. Simply save your file as it is! If you're being extra cautious, then you'll save your work separate from the original file. This way, if you've done something to your file that you regret, you haven't lost your original.

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Travel Blogging: Taking unique Photos

Post by Tina Fussell.

You've just checked into your hotel - now it's time to grab your map and start seeing a new place. With the camera slung around your neck, you set out and start snapping away. You want to take unique photos. This can be quite a challenge if the places you are visiting are frequented by many tourists. It can also be challenging if the place you are visiting is famous, because everyone has the postcard already.

How can you find your own photographic voice?

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