Holiday pictures time!

  This holiday season I wanted to give you all some photo taking tip for all of those holiday parties and Christmas morning photo's you all plan on taking.
{ Before you push that button make sure you are focusing in on only one item at a time.  Do not take a photo of a room full of people it is boring, uninteresting and even you will never go back and look at it keep things simply }

1. Keep it to small groups and really fill the frame use the faces to block out distractions.
2. Go easy on the flash, try using the program icons on your camera to try and avoid photo ruining flash.
3. Don't forget to take pictures of the food, decorations.
4. Do be a nuisance, don't take aunt Jane's side profile, interrupt the conversation for a split second take the photo and she can get back to her story and egg nog.
5. last and usually most important get the subjects full attention, then just before you take the photo look around the subject(s) heads/bodies to make sure you haven't let anything grow out from behind them, this prevents the hard work of trying to edit things out or leaving them in and it will be the first thing everyone will mention about the photo.
6. When taking pictures of children get down to there level taking the shot looking down on them is boring and will not use it unless it was from an interesting angle.  {Make each shot interesting}
7. When you start to pick on people your own size, bend your knees a little before taking the shot.  It will help avoid red eye's and people look better shot from either a slightly lower or higher angle.

The act of taking photo's can come across as a real pain in the rear end to some people.  Lots of people hate getting there picture taken.  But the memories that a good photo will bring back for years to come are well worth taking the time to capture a great shot.  When people are gone the only things that are left of them are our memories, Photo's & Video's.  So the next time someone tells you to say cheese think to yourself this might be the only way my Great Great Great grandchildren will get to see/know me.


For me photo's are amazing they capture a moment in time that we can never get back.  We can try and duplicate a shot we have seen but the light will be different and sometimes the whole feel of the picture is missing.  I always try to take my time and setup the right shot and will take practice but for me that just means more time with the camera and I love Love that.