Posts Tagged ‘lighting’

Painted Portrait – Ava

Painted Portrait - Ava

We had the family Christmas Party at the beginning of December last year, and I took some casual portraits of family members while everyone was together. A few turned out really well, so I decided to turn a couple of them into painted portraits. This is Ava, and she is my nephew’s daughter. Her mother [...]


General Comments about Photographs

I had the chance this morning to review a friends images. He has a fantastic eye, but I found a few things that I could tell him that generically applied to most of his images. In fact, I think it might be true for many people, so I thought I would post them here. 1 [...]


Spring Flowers

Well, it’s (almost) spring again, and in Texas, that means wildflowers; color in some fields as far as the eye can see.  It seems like everyone with a camera wants two things. 1) a great picture of a bluebonnet, or a field of bluebonnets, and 2) a picture of their kids, sitting in a field [...]


Small Tips

There are some small, but very basic tips that you can use in your everyday shooting.  I’m going to list just a few of them here:  1.  When you are taking a picture, check to make sure you are holding the camera level (unless of course you are INTENTIONALLY making that horizon look like you [...]