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Composing Your Baby Part Shots
Baby parts shots are clearly not traditional photography. In order to be successful as art, they must be composed in an artful manner. Simply shooting a picture of your baby’s hand, without much...
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More Puppy Love
Before I had kids, my Airedale Terrier “Butch” was officially my “kid”. He traveled on vacation with my husband and me, had a spot on our bed, and ate better than most humans. When our first child...
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More on Furry Friends
If you are taking your dog to a professional studio for shots with your kids, or if you are taking them somewhere else which is unfamiliar to them, be sure to give the dog plenty of time to walk around...
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Mug Shots
My lovely subject enjoying the stage! Wow, I just finished with a tough shoot! The little girl was adorable, and boy did she know it! She was a blast to play with and was really into the shoot, it...
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Let Them Rock Their Tutu’s!
My studios are all just finishing up on a month long fundraising event for St. Jude Children’s Medical Research Hospital. We encouraged ballerinas big and small to come rock their tutus for our...
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Angle for the Best Shot
Camera angles can make or break your photos. Shooting down on a sitting child can enhance the feeling of smallness, vulnerability and innocence. Shooting up on a child can make them seem stronger and...
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Seize the Moment!
There is nothing I love more than a good Midwestern thunderstorm. This may be genetic, because my 3 year old loves them too. When he grows up, maybe we can be a mother/son team of tornado chasers!...
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Montana Magic
Wow, what a fun week I just had “working” in Montana. A few months ago, I decided that a midsummer photography retreat in Montana was just the thing to get me thinking about new creative techniques to...
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Shooting Light and Airy
One of the most basic “tricks” to shooting light and airy outdoor photos is to shoot on sunny days at the time of day when the light is soft and diffuse, yet bright. I have written about this before....
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Golden Light
Shooting into the sunlight (backlighting) is one of the trickier things in photography. As mentioned in my last post, it is really challenging to expose the skin tones of your subject properly when...
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