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Tips for Getting a Great Family Portrait

You can go and spend a fortune on a portrait sitting, get lots of different poses and then spend hours trying to agonize over which ones you want to order and which ones you want to include in your scrapbook. Or you can create your own portrait sitting and take the photos yourself and spend a lot less money. In addition, you can spend no time actually agonizing over the selection, because the negatives or original digital prints are yours to begin with. This allows you the freedom and flexibility to crop, resize, reprint and alter the photographs until your … Continue reading →

Photographing Baby: Close Up

Every moment of childhood would be wonderful to capture on film. That isn’t how life goes of course, and the opportunities to truly capture our children are not always made available. However, taking an up close and personal look, through the eyes of your camera (the lens) can capture much more than you realize. Often, when baby is being photographed, we stand to far away, getting clutter, and other background objects that we don’t need. They can be distracting. Instead, get close up. Even if your camera doesn’t have a zoom lens, you can still get close up to your … Continue reading →