March 4th, 2010
A lot of people asked me about my newborn post processing, and what I “do to my photos” in photoshop. For many images, my goal is as little as possible other than white balance! That works much of the time,…
March 2nd, 2010
This is the second of my newborns from this weekend.. well, actually the first because it was my Saturday shoot and Drew was my Sunday shoot :)
Meet baby Sihanna. She was a good sleeper and not quite as difficult…
February 24th, 2010
A lot of people write to me and ask where they should start learning about photography. Other than practice, practice, practice, my #1 recommendation is to start actively participating in photography messageboards.
I’ve blogged about this before, but I’m using…
February 23rd, 2010
I’ve been looking forward to the end of February for some time now, I have two newborns to photograph and I have been furiously crocheting hats and going over the props and poses in my head! The last newborn…
February 12th, 2010
I have a few moms expecting this month, the perfect excuse to dig out the crochet needles and dip into my growing yarn stash! It’s surprisingly difficult to find the exact pattern that fits the thickness of the yarn you…
February 3rd, 2010
How to use Lightroom (or ACR) to adjust the white balance of your image and then how to check and finetune it in Photoshop. This tutorial uses the CMY % method of correct skintones that I first learned about…
February 1st, 2010
I was pleasantly surprised at how many of you lucky ladies said you got a new DSLR under the tree for the holidays, so I wanted to do a quick little primer on RAW vs. jpg: What is RAW (hint:…
January 26th, 2010
Mandy asked in a previous post if I could show a pullback of my setup, so during one of my shoots this past weekend I made a point to remember to take a few pics. Here is the Savage
January 19th, 2010
During the fall gymboree semester there was one little girl Madison who I just fell in love with… I always joked with her dad that she was like the poster child for gymboree – unlike Jasper who refuses to participate…
January 15th, 2010
Ever since getting the mark II I’ve been a bit lazy in low light situations..the ability to shoot at ISO up to 3200 without too much image degradation is seductive -very very seductive. And often it is the right choice…
