Holiday cards. You’ve spent hours taking the perfect photo, picking the perfect card and getting it shipped in time to your house. After you’ve addressed all of your envelopes, you breathe a sigh of relief, knowing the cards are done. Then you realize the fatal flaw in your plan–the lack of a catchy verse. You find yourself [...]

Americans send over 1.5 billion holiday cards each year. On average, 85% of households participate in this tradition and each household sends an average of 58 cards. Personally, it is one of my favorite holiday traditions. But first, when it comes to sending holiday cards, we must make sure we get through the holidays with a [...]

When I first started studying photography, I admired how great photographers took tack sharp photos. I read and practiced and studied (and studied some more) until I too mastered this skill. From experience, I know that sharpness can be one of the most challenging and frustrating aspects to grasp when learning how to use your dSLR. [...]

Though the costumes are stored, candy is (almost) gone and cobwebs are cleaned your night photography has kept me in the Halloween spirit! This week your challenge was to bring the dark to light. I’d like to think that my 6 tips on taking photos at night was a huge factor to your photography successes. However from [...]