Welcome to tip #5 of our Life Lessons from Photography School! Let me give you a quick recap of what you have missed: #1 A Few Changes Can Lead to Great Photos #2 DIY Reflector and Boucing Light #3 Great shots take time #4 Shooting from Different angles and a different perspective Contributing Photographer: Carla Ackermann Todays Photo tip and Life lesson: Blur Technique and Lean On It This past weekend I photographed a great wedding. The couple wanted two things for their wedding: 1) That … [Read more...]
Photographing from Different Angles~Life Lesson #4
Welcome to #4 of Life Lessons from Photography School Todays Photo Tip: Photographing from Different Angles Contributing Photographer: Carla Ackermann Some of the most admired images we have are those taken from a different perspective. A photo of an object taken from a daily perspective - the one we would normally view it from when we are just standing around, looking at it - may be a great photo. All the setting might be right, we could have some beautiful bokeh (blur) in the background … [Read more...]
Great Shots Take Time- Photography Tip
Welcome so glad you stopped by! This is the 3rd simple but profound Life Lessons from Photography School. Contributing Photographer: Carla Ackermann Life is busy. We rush around and we want to get things done quickly. When there is something we want to take a picture of, we just take it. But the fact that we take pictures at all shows that in many ways, we want life to slow down. We want to capture the moments and be able to hold onto them. One click of the shutter freezes time and … [Read more...]
Tip #2- Life Lessons from Photography School
#2 Life Lessons from Photography School Contributing Photographer: Carla Ackermann Summer is filled with opportunities to take a lot of great pictures - pictures that will capture memories which we will treasure for a long, long time. We welcome the sunny days that bring out the bathing suits and flip flops! When trying to produce portraits, however, these same sunny days can produce a lot of shadows. It's not a problem with the pictures we take of our kids running through the sprinklers, … [Read more...]