Photography class day 1

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I am at a week long photography class in Northern California.  We are camping on the coast, and it is a wild rugged landscape.  Here are my three favorite pictures from yesterday. A Banana Slug.  I love his eyes in focus. A sweet little bird who thought that his mommy was bringing him some food…. [Continue Reading]

To Flash or not to Flash

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I still don’t know whether it is best to use flash indoors or not.  Here are two pictures that I took of the same thing.  The first one I used flash and the second I did not.    I think that I like the one with flash better.  What do you think? Digg this post… [Continue Reading]

Changing Point of View

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As I started taking pictures of therapy activities for Therapy Fun Zone, I needed to work on my photography skills. The first step is to change my point of view.  I noticed many of my pictures are taken looking down on the activity.  I needed to get my camera down into the activity. That made… [Continue Reading]

Want to go for a walk?

This is a face that does not like wearing his head collar. This is a face that really wants to go for a walk. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Eggs

They looked funny in the bowl, so I took a picture of before and after. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Roller Skating

It brings back memories of my youth going roller skating.  This is my son’s end of year class party.  I took a lot of pictures to try to get just the right blur. Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Meet My Adopted Son Fred

We went to the tide pools today in Laguna Beach.  It was beautiful.  We had just started looking at things when I saw this little guy in the water. He is a little sea lion pup. He started to come up on the rocks, so we just sat down and watched him and took pictures…. [Continue Reading]

Dogwood

Right now in Yosemite valley the Dogwood trees are in full bloom.  They have beautiful white flowers that cover the trees, and they almost glow as the sun is going down.  I was almost able to capture that glowing quality.It is beautiful.  I had to turn the focus to manual, and turn my flash off. … [Continue Reading]

blurry pictures

I was taking pictures for my therapy activity site and many of them came out blurry.  I read people’s comments on how to take good pictures, and they always say to turn off the flash.  I tried that, but I guess that only works when your subjects are furniture or food because moving kids get… [Continue Reading]

what kind of camera is best

I hear all the time that good pictures are not dependent on what type of camera is used, but on the photographer.  This is true a lot of the time, but I have found that it really helps your pictures if you have a good camera too.  I have a little camera that is a… [Continue Reading]

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