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Tips for Taking Super Summer Snapshots

With summer almost half way over many families are trying to squeeze in at least one more road trip before school starts. If you are getting ready to hit the highway for a fun-filled family vacation, then consider employing the following tips to ensure you capture stunning shots of your summer adventure: TELL A STORY Getting to your final destination is half the fun; so make sure you are documenting all the action from the moment you load into the family car. Tell a story with your shots by shooting chronologically. Capture the mood of the trip from start to … Continue reading →

Tips for Taking Memorable Vacation Photos

If you think I am a snap happy parent at home you should see me on vacation. You don’t have to be a professional photographer to capture frameworthy shots of your family in memorable locations. All you need to do is remember some basic rules. The following are tips are ones I try to employ when I’m trying capture Kodak moments on the road: TELL A STORY I’ve written about this technique in previous blogs, but I find it is even more critical when shooting vacation photos. Before pointing and shooting think about how your photos will look when you … Continue reading →

Good Neighbor – A Magazine Ad from State Farm

We are all inundated with advertisements. Insurance companies have learned to be clever with the types of ads they produce. State Farm has created an advertisement that appears, at first glance, to be a magazine. It got my attention. I just got back from a week long vacation (that included a family wedding). It amazes me how many different forms of advertisements I have seen in that span of time. Most of the ads were unmemorable, and I forgot about them the instant they went away. The airline pilots rattled off a sales pitch to the passengers about a credit … Continue reading →

Yikes! I Have To Wear A Bathing Suit!?

For a thin person, it is FUN!! For an average sized person, it is bearable! For an overweight person, it is downright discouraging, intimidating, and positively, absolutely stressful. You discover you are going away to some place warm for a relaxing vacation and you just know that you are either going to have to sit in the shade or put on a bathing suit. What do you do? Do not sacrifice having a wonderful vacation by stressing out over this. Find a bathing suit that you can contend with, put it on, and go and have fun with your family. … Continue reading →

Shooting Fourth of July Fireworks

Now that you know what images to snap at your Fourth of July parades, picnics and parties let’s turn our attention to the main event of any Independence Day celebration—-the fireworks displays. Here are some tips to keep in mind before the sparks start flying on the Fourth: Snapping Sparklers Last year I tried unsuccessfully to capture my 3-year-old using her sparklers to draw pictures in the night sky. However, during a Chinese New Year celebration a few months ago, I learned a trick from a photo expert. First, to best capture sparkler sky writing you should place your camera … Continue reading →

Getting Ready to Shoot the Fourth

It doesn’t get more American than a Fourth of July BBQ with friends, family and fireworks. The ultimate summertime holiday is teeming with amazing photo ops from flags to family reunions, parades to pie eating contests. It would be a shame not to make the most of these Independence Day events. So grab your camera, charge up those batteries, go out and splurge on a new memory card (or extra rolls of film) and get ready to snap your loved ones in action as they proudly celebrate our country’s 232nd birthday. Fourth of July Parade I addressed the challenges involved … Continue reading →

Photo Challenges

“Mommy take my picture with Sue.” It was a request made by my then 2-year-old daughter while we were visiting Sue the T. Rex at Chicago’s Field Museum a while back. She knows I am an avid photographer so asking for a picture with the colossal fossil was seemingly a no-brainer. Of course, getting the massive meat-eating monster in the same frame as my tiny tot proved to be a challenge larger than the bony creature itself. Sue measures forty-one feet long from nose to tail, and twelve feet tall at the hips. Try getting that in a shot without … Continue reading →

Should I Delete This Picture?

If you have a digital camera this is a question you have likely asked many, many times. I am in the midst of preparing for my family’s annual trip to Hawaii and recently sat down to purge photos from my camera that have been in there since last spring. As you can tell this task was a long time coming. The exercise proved to be time consuming, but productive. I can’t say that I came away with any earth-shattering revelations (besides not waiting 10 months to go through your shots); however, I know that I am not the only snap … Continue reading →

Photography Week in Review for January 21, 2007-January 27, 2008

How many times have you thumbed through a camera manual and wondered what the letters RAW, NEF, TIFF and JPEG stood for? And how many times have you returned from vacation with more shots that needed to be deleted from your digital camera than ones that you considered framing? Finally, when was the last time you seriously evaluated your work in an effort to improve your shots? These are just a few of the topics I discussed in the Photography Blog this past week. Each post includes tips and answers to some of the most commonly asked questions involving the … Continue reading →