Here are steps and suggestions for taking keepsake images with your cell phone at Christmas: Wipe off camera lens with a microfiber cloth or t-shirt. Yes, of course, it’s smudged. (I forgot to do this yesterday and got light streaks from a dirty lens.) Turn on camera with two taps of your power button. See…
Category: Photography
Crash Course before Christmas Morning in Taking Great Smart Phone Photos Part 1
You’d really like to capture those moments on Christmas morning of the kids opening their presents. You’d even like to have an angelic image of each child in a calm moment in front of the tree. Sigh. Such a big challenge. I’m here to coach you on using your smart phone’s camera. Phones are perfect…
Phone Photography Plus Halloween Photo Tips
It’s Halloween and it usually falls to the moms and grandmas to take photos of our cute lil’ creatures all decked out for fun. But it can be tricky. No pun intended. Here are some helpful tips for taking great Halloween phone photos. (Since I’m ‘that’ generation that struggles with technology, I decided to do…
Do You Exist?
We recently attended the funeral of a long-time friend. There was a lovely slideshow of many images of our friend with her husband, children, and grandchildren. Lots of happy images of them interacting at birthday parties, vacations, and just life. On our way home, I said to Husband, “We don’t have photos of us together…
Fall Fotos
Flowers adorn themselves with crystal jewelry on damp days. If you aren’t outside on wet days, you can cheat by spritzing flowers with a spray bottle of water. I didn’t have to cheat on this image. This is real dew. Be sure to zoom into the flower so it’s the center of…
Recording Memories
Depending on where you live, school has or is about to start. Why not start a tradition in your family of documenting the first day of school? I know families who have taken a photo of their children all dressed up and ready for the first day of school standing in front of their front…