Last week, we had a ton of fun shooting flowers. When capturing red roses, you might have come across a problem that has plagued me for awhile. Did your reds look like they were bleeding? Were they neon? Don’t worry. It’s a common problem. Photographing red items is not easy. Aside from white, I find [...]

Based on your pictures this week, spring has definitely sprung! Seeing all the beautiful flower photographs on the Picaboo Facebook wall definitely brightened my days. There were so many amazing floral shots this week. They were all truly gorgeous. You definitely made my job hard this week! 1 Whitney Boring | 2 Susan Padilla | [...]

Spring has definitely sprung in my neck of the woods. Judging by a lot of the challenge pictures on the Facebook wall, it’s sprung for a lot of you as well. This week I thought we’d focus on photographing flowers. When photographing flowers, its a great opportunity to put a lot of what you learned [...]

  This week, we learned how to make our own bokehs and the pictures were fantastic. They were creative, inspiring and really different. If you had trouble creating a bokeh, keep trying. This is one of those crafty photo techniques that takes some persistence. Now, without further ado, here are the top 10 bokeh pictures [...]

Week 16 Challenge & Theme:  Create Your Own Bokeh On your very first challenge, I had you put your lens in Manual focus and you took some amazing bokeh pictures. We are going to revisit this concept this week but with a twist. First, let’s review what a bokeh is. Simply put, it’s a blurry background. [...]