Posts belonging to Category 'photography'

How To Take Good Pictures: Get Down

Today’s topic will probably mostly be useful to you if you take pictures of people, especially children. Like my previous tip, this one doesn’t require any special equipment and can be implemented with the camera you already own. One of the easiest ways to improve your photos of children is to get down to their [...]

How To Take Good Pictures: Use Outdoor Light

In my last post, I pointed out some of the advantages of doing portrait photography yourself, and in this post, I’m going to begin to explain just how to do that.  And as promised, this tip won’t require you to buy a single thing. Using Outside Light If you have a not-so-great camera, one of [...]

Do-It-Yourself Portrait Photography

Back before digital cameras were widely available, I used to haul my children to the portrait studio in the mall in order to get a nice picture taken. These experiences were always sort of stressful for a number of reasons. Some of my kids were scared of the backdrops, sometimes my kids didn’t want to [...]