PhotoMoms Spotlight Week 4

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If you were featured feel free to grab the code and proudly display the honor on your blog: Grab the Code Want to share the fun with friends? Grab the Code This week’s PhotoMoms Spotlight includes: Stephanie at Golden Hour Rosen shares a great series of shots of her little princess. Brighton from Dear Brighton [...]

PhotoMoms Spotlight

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Before we get started with this week’s featured PhotoMoms, I’d like to let you know that we now are hosting a weekly photo link up along with the PhotoMoms spotlight. How to enter for a chance to be featured or to nominate a friend: You can submit your blog post on our Facebook page Tweet [...]

Photo Prep List

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After much trial and error planning photo shoots with kids in tow, I decided to create a photo prep list. Regardless of whether or not the kids go with you, a preparation list will help make your photo walks run more smoothly. You can save this graphic to your phone or download the PDF and [...]

Photo Moms Week 2

We announced last week that we would be featuring different PhotoMoms and our team has had so much fun selecting our choices for this week. Here’s what you need to qualify as a Photo Mom: Be a mom (expecting moms and moms with adult children works too.. grandma’s welcome!) Love capturing life through your lens. [...]

Getting your camera photos into Instagram

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Sometimes using the smartphone just isn’t enough and I want photos from my camera to appear in my Instagram feed. It’s simple on a smartphone with a browser. 1. On your computer, upload your chosen photos to your photo host or email them to yourself. 2. On your smartphone, log in to your photo host [...]

Calling all photo moms!

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Our kids grow up and after they leave home we look back through the memories of photos and we gasp in horror at the lack of photography skills we had in those younger years. There are moms all over the world who are working diligently to improve the magic of their photo craft to produce [...]

Capturing Memorable Expressions

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Taking photos of children can be daunting as you try to get them to pose and smile at just the right time, but candid shots can be so much more  memorable. Having the camera handy and fully charged at all times can help immensely. In the moments where the little ones are deep in their imaginative [...]

Photography Checklist

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How many times have you raced out the door for some family fun and forgot to charge the batteries to your camera? Maybe you have arrived at your niece’s first birthday party with a stubborn smudge on your lens. Sometimes it’s just part of life that we forget some of the most basic things. Below [...]

Sweets Up Close and Personal

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Capturing a stellar shot of your treats doesn’t have to be difficult. You don’t even need a professional studio to harness the details of your delectable desserts. In this shot I used my Sony Alpha300 DSLR with a 55mm lens. I placed my lemon bars on a small decorative plate, then on a wooden tray [...]

Food Photography

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This is one of the most fun projects my daughters and I partake in together is food photography. Fun, of course, because Jessica is the baker in the family and we get to enjoy everything she takes photos of. Our neighbors must think we’ve lost our minds when they see all of us outside trying [...]