Category Archives: Photography techniques

the release of the butterflies

My daughter’s class has adopted their own caterpillars to raise and watch them grow into butterflies.  Last week was the releasing of those butterflies.    My daughter’s caterpillar’s name is Nicole (they got to name them themselves).  There were Bob, Boo-boo, Bob Jr. Jr., and Sky just to name a few of them.  They are painted...

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Photo Improvement …

It is getting more and more clear that a photo can be enhanced in so many ways after it is taken.  I’m entering a little contest to see how well we can improve on a hum-drum photo and make it pop.  Brent Riggs from linky tools is holding this contest.  Here’s his original photo… Here’s...

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Photo vs. artistic portrait

I belong to a photography blog called I Heart Faces that is constantly issuing challenges to it’s readers.  Every Friday they have something called “Fix-It Fridays” where they post a photograph and we make changes to the photograph to make it pop and to add an artistic flare.  This is a perfect example of how...

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Do you know the difference between a snap-shot and a portrait?!

First off, let’s talk about what a snapshot is … typically it’s taken from a small, simple, point and shoot camera.  It’s really only purpose is to capture that moment very quickly regardless of the lighting, background, or exposure.  Here’s what I mean… (I think my husband may have taken this picture… can’t remember.)  Anyway,...

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