Photography
Allow Shutterfly to Help You Share Your Fun Summer Memories!
Aug 9th
Summer is my favorite season! Who doesn’t enjoy the warmer weather, longer days, and outdoor adventures? I certainly enjoy the time with my children, and in turn I end up taking a lot of pictures to remember all these great moments. Well, now all those great summer moments can be shared with family and friends on Shutterfly. It is a great place to upload your photos to share. But even better, you can create a photobook to remember all of your summer memories, and it is the perfect item, when the children need to bring a show and tell item to their school. I know that both you and your children will certainly enjoy looking back at the summer memories!
I Love Shutterfly for photobooks, photo storage, and for holiday and thank you cards. I have used them for my holiday cards, and for thank you cards, and I always am pleased with the end result. I have also created photobooks, and I love having these memories to treasure for years to come.
Shutterfly now offers both the simple path and the all NEW custom path.
The custom path allows you to:
- Add, move and resize pictures and text anywhere
- Extensive collection of new backgrounds, layouts & embellishments
- 1-25 pictures per page (up to 1000 pictures)
- Five sizes starting from $12.99
I am definitely excited to try the custom path. I think it will be wonderful to resize and move pictures on the page, and to be able to place the text where you feel it is appropriate. And you really can’t go wrong with the books starting at $12.99, certainly a great way to share your family memories!
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Free 8×10 from Canvas People just pay S & H
Jul 26th
CanvasPeople.com is offering a free 8 x 10 or $50 off any size canvas as a special introductory deal! This coupon can be applied toward a larger size canvas, creative effects or frames! You can get 2 canvas with 50% off your second canvas and 50% off shipping.
DSLR Photography Tips
Jul 8th
I have been becoming more interested in photography lately with my two littles. I don’t post to many personal pictures on this blog, but I have been taking pictures daily to capture our 365, and I have been having so much fun with my camera. I have a Nikon D90 with a basic 18-105mm lens. I recently took a photography class for beginners with a DSLR camera and it was wonderful. If you can take the class I highly recommend it! The class was Capturing True Emotions, the speakers were great and very informational. I went from very limited understanding of my camera to being able to shoot in the manual mode.
Here are a few tips I learned on how to shoot in the manual mode on my DSLR.
Learn how to use your camera, and get out of the green(auto) zone.
The elements to taking a picture:
- ISO: Controls the sensitivity of the image sensor. Therefore a low ISO(100-200) good for a lot of light, and a higher ISO is better in low light.
- Aperture: Is your f stop. It controls your light and depth of field.
- Small f-stop(larger opening and short depth of field–background will blur, good for night-time and portraits),
- Large f-stop (smaller opening and longer depth of Field, good for landscape and bright settings)
- F8-F11 tend to be safe areas.
- Shutter speed: Controls light and movement
- For action you want a fast shutter speed, 1/500 or greater. Do not shoot without a tripod below 1/60th(image will blur).
- Metering: Allows you to determine what f-stop, shutter to use. There is a meter at the bottom of your screen that goes between -2 to +2. You want it to meter at 0.
- You are better to under than over expose a photo. You can edit an under-exposed image in post processing.
Steps for taking a picture:
1. Choose your subject
2. Select ISO
3. Select aperture/f-stop
4. Check the meter
5. Adjust the shutter
6. Focus and shoot
