Vaquero Cocina, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Would somebody please tell me what in the heck a “fried pie” is? Nevermind, I think I’d rather not know. (It sounds fattening, whatever it is.) Texas food…sometimes….I tell…
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Photo Tip #14-Visualize the Image Try different techniques for visualization before you go out on your next shoot. Try using a sketch pad to draw basic shapes of your compositions and imagine results in your…
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Trailer Chair And Pink Flamingos, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. I was talking with a friend the other day, about how I had found this encaustic kit on-line. It’s a whole entire set-everything one might need…
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Photo Tip #13-Squint Squinting will often allow you to visualize an image in black and white, thanks to the way our eyes work (rods, cones, and all of that.) Try composing for a black and…
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Hey Cupcake, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. It’s hard to describe Hey Cupcake! to somebody who’s not from Austin. For starters, the cupcakes are sold out of an airstream trailer, parked in what used to be…
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Photo Tip #12-Or Not If you shoot in black and white, you can still work with color effectively. Learn to work tone, and work a full tonal range in your images to have a maximum…
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WalkwayGoesAway, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Today is a special day in the United States-it’s Veteran’s Day. To all of those who served, are serving, and will serve, we would like to take this opportunity to…
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Photo Tip #11-Color Me Good Learn how to work with color. Get a book or do some research on basic color theory and start to incorporate techniques from color theory into your work. Color is…
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Pieter Cornelis “Piet” Mondriaan, known as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter, born in the Netherlands in 1872 into an artistic family. His father was a drawing teacher and his uncle a painter. As a…
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Photo Tip #10-Expose Yourself To Better Photography Learn how to properly expose prints, and how you can over or under expose a negative (even a digital negative) but compensate using the exposure of the print…
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TipsAndCenters, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. I hope you are enjoying the photo tips. Last year, I did Stig introductions for National Blog Posting month. This year, instead, I opted for tips about photography. I’ve never…
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Photo Tip #9-Get in There! Most photographers, especially those new to photography, benefit from moving closer when composing. After you have composed your image, but before you push the shutter, try moving two steps closer…
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Signs Of Autumn-Cluster, originally uploaded by carolsLittleWorld. Today started out with this beautiful fog, I’m really sorry I did not get to go out shooting more than I did. I had plans to go over…
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Photo Tip #8-Cut it Out! Learn how to crop for maximum impact. While cropping can often eliminate unnecessary or unwanted items in an image, you can also “crop the life out of” an image by…
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This is my entry for softness. Softness is sometimes a bad word for photographers. Especially now, with digital photography-I always hear people complaining in on-line forums and camera clubs how they can’t get lenses sharp…
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Photo Tip #7-Stay at Home Many people are under the impression that you have to travel to take great pictures. Often, you can take great shots in familiar surroundings. Learning the details of your immediate…
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I don’t usually do these “weekend roundup” type of posts outside of the weekend, but so much has been going on I felt the sudden urge. For starters, this article in EW.com (an on-line magazine…
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Photo Tip #6-The Sunny F/16 Rule Learn what the “Sunny F/16” rule is and how to use it (From the wikipedia: “On a sunny day set aperture to f/16 and shutter speed to the reciprocal…
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As a Russian born of Jewish faith, you might expect a painter like Marc Chagall, who fled Nazi occupation by moving to Paris and the United States, to paint dark, brooding subjects. You might expect…
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Photo Tip #5-Proper Exposure Learn how to properly expose an image and how the scale of exposure equivalence works so that you have more control of your images.
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