Aperture Priority, Shutter Priority or Manual Mode – which should I be using? Living near a big city like Vancouver, I get to spy a lot of amateur photography tourists on my travels. So many of them now have the “big” camera – otherwise known as the DSLR....
There’s nothing like New Year’s Eve to make you take stock and look at the year that has just gone. In fact, I posted just recently about how to review your year from both a personal and professional perspective and blog about it. But let’s get more specific… what...
I sent out an email to my subscribers, last week, about the importance of reflecting and reviewing the last 12 months. This is so you can see how your skills as a photographer, or even your photography business if you have one, has grown. It was a good email and I...
There’s a saying that we all know about how first impressions are the most lasting. It’s a saying that holds true in just about every part of life. But when it comes to meeting clients to photograph them for the first time, first impressions are important. Those first...
How to photograph your petsWhen you start out with photography, you’ll take photographs of anything you can point your camera at. A pair of shoes, a bunch of flowers, the building across the street. You start branching out, taking your camera out and about with you...
My husband thinks I’m crazy and I’ll tell you why… When driving down a long empty highway somewhere in the heart of New England, I opened my mouth and made a comment. “I know this is going to sound stupid,” I said, “but don’t you think the sky looks…...