Tutorial Tuesday: Low Key Photography

April 17, 2012
Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday! Sarah of Naptime Momtog and I will be bringing you a new challenge every week, to stretch your shooting and editing skills. This week, Sarah is sharing a tutorial on how to do Low Key Photography. In traditional photography there are three types of lighting used: key light, fill light and back lighting for even illumination. Low-key lighting requires only one, key light. Be sure to click over to Sarah’s blog (click HERE) to see a pull back of her set up as well as read some tips on setting up your own low key photographs. As for me, I’ll be...
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Tutorial Tuesday: Double Exposures

April 10, 2012
Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday! Sarah of Naptime Momtog and I will be bringing you a new challenge every week, to stretch your shooting and editing skills. This week, I thought we’d visit a lesson I saw about a week or so ago on creating “Double Exposures” in Photoshop (or similar programs). If you haven’t seen the tutorial already, click HERE. Granted, by following these steps, you won’t create a real double exposure…ya know, in the same way you would have done by using film. But, it still looks pretty cool. Start by selecting two images – this...
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Tutorial Tuesday: Using Reflectors

April 03, 2012
Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday! Sarah of Naptime Momtog and I will be bringing you a new challenge every week, to stretch your shooting and editing skills.This week we are talking about how to use a reflector while taking photos.Sarah and I both own this reflector. Much like her, I don’t have a reflector stand or a paid assistant. To be honest, I have only started to use my reflector during portrait shoots. In most cases, I ask my client to assist me…which works great when you’re photographing babies because it gives their parents something to do. Had I only been using my...
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Tutorial Tuesday: Creating a .GIF

March 27, 2012
Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday! Sarah of Naptime Momtog and I will be bringing you a new challenge every week, to stretch your shooting and editing skills. This week, I’m pulling from my request files. Kimberly, from A Fresh Perspective, asked me a couple of weeks ago if I could share how I make a .gif in Photoshop. Considering that it’s getting warm outside…and that your children (and/or animals) are likely to be outside playing, I thought this might be a fun tutorial to explore.First thing first…let’s watch the video tutorial.It actually took me quite a while to...
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