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The Family Photographer

What the heck is TtV photography anyway, and why would you bother?

8 October 2009 The Family Photographer

A couple of you have asked me about my new fascination with TtV photography, so I thought I’d post a little tutorial here. The idea is simple enough: take a photograph through the viewfinder of another camera. The viewfinder camera is usually a vintage twin-lens reflex camera, the kind that you would have held at [...]

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10 ways to know you made a good picture

8 September 2009 Photography

(I’m annoyed with Twitter right now, so I pulled this from Twitter to my sideblog!) This is an excellent little checklist from photographer Scott Bourne to evaluate your photographs. Very simple, but quite helpful set of reminders: 10 ways to know you made a good picture. This is the one I have to really keep [...]

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The Family Photographer: Protecting your images online

7 July 2009 The Family Photographer

This is an issue I’ve been struggling with for a while, so it’s not so much as a “how-to” post as an invitation to discuss the subject. The keen-eyed among you will have noticed that I’ve started watermarking my photos. (A watermark is, in this case, a small and mostly transparent addition to your image [...]

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The Family Photographer: Composition 1

18 June 2009 The Family Photographer

I have to laugh when I look at the pictures I used to take when I was younger: as soon as whatever subject I was trying to capture was in the frame – anywhere in the frame! – I’d push the shutter button. Don’t get me wrong, it works — but if you take a [...]

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The Family Photographer: Controlling the light

9 June 2009 The Family Photographer

Okay, so you’re trying to take a picture of your brand new puppy: a tumbling, squiggling ball of golden fur. It’s late afternoon and the light is low. What can you do? My first recommendation? Don’t use a flash, and especially don’t use the in-camera flash that pops up in automatic mode. I’ve learned over [...]

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The Family Photographer: about lenses

1 June 2009 The Family Photographer

Okay, so maybe I was a bit ambitious with the idea of a whole new blog and Flickr group for my Family Photographer idea, but there’s no reason I can’t start the posts here and migrate them to a new blog as time, energy and your interest permit. Amy from the Muddy Boots blog asked [...]

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