This is a guide about tips and tricks for using your camera. Whether you are using a 35mm film camera, a point and shoot digital camera or a DSLR, some photographic tricks will help you take better pictures.
I have found a great new hobby, it is called photo cutouts. I have had a pile of pieces of acrylic taking up room in my garage. So the other day while I was moving the pile once again, I asked myself, "What can I do this stuff?".
Scarves For Pet Photo Backgrounds
Colorful Silk Scarves make excellent backgrounds for pet photos. These make the animals happy, since they like to feel of them. The colors just pop out when they are used as a background or the pet is laying on them.
This picture isn't really a picture, it's 3 different pictures that I used to create one. Rosie, the dog on the left and Ginger the dog on the right are my dogs. I love them both very much, but they definitely do not love or even remotely like one another.
I have some old negatives that I would like to get developed and I can't find any place that does that anymore. Does anyone know of a place I can send them? Thanks so much.
Use DVD cases as photo frames. We travel a lot; therefore, we keep all our DVD's in a little zip around case. The cases fit a 5x7 wonderfully.
Use Coffee Filter as Camera Flash Diffuser
Diffuse the flash on your camera with a coffee filter to soften the brightness. You can also try putting coffee filters over lights or lamps to lessen the harshness when taking indoor photos.
Try Negative Setting in Photoshop
I love to experiment with Photoshop and photos in negative. This is the negative of a photo of a peacock that I took at our local park.
Transferring a Picture to a Cup or Plate
How do I transfer a photo to a plate or cup?
Move Closer When Taking Photographs
Remember those photos many years ago where the subject was so far away you could barely tell who it was? Get your shot ready in your camera screen, then take a couple steps closer to your subject, making sure you still have the subject totally within the screen.
Taking Black and White Photos with a Digital Camera
How do you take a black and white picture with a digital camera?
Tips For Photographing Your Garden In Winter
You may not have many (if any) flowers blooming in your garden right now, but the winter season still offers some great opportunities for photographing your garden. Here are a few tips for how to work with winter light, how to create interesting pictures, and how to keep yourself and your camera gear warm and dry.
Craft: Illustrated Photo Border
Take a photograph of just about anything and place it on a blank piece of paper 8x10 and then have your child add to the photograph by drawing on the paper.
I am thinking about starting digital scrapbooking. I got a program, but it doesn't say what type of paper I need to print my pages on so that they will last. Can someone give me some insight on how to start this project, and what supplies I will need?
Organizing Photos On Your Camera
I love to take pictures, but I don't love trying to remember where one day ends and the next begins as I go to catalog my digital photos as I upload them to my computer after a long trip. On our last vacation I finally found a solution.
Three very attentive puppies, Cody, Lola and Jake. Guess how I got this great picture? They love to play ball, so I put the ball high over my head and took the pic!
Use a Cemetery as a Photo Background
Photography is something I want to do in the near future. This is a picture of me at a cemetery. I had a tripod so it came out right. I was thinking of the old fashioned/ vintage things, and just fell in love with the clothing.
Converting Slides Into a Digital Format
I found some old photo slides from my dad. How do I manage to get them into a digital format (to at least view and select for archiving)? Hopefully there are some inexpensive solutions. There are dozens of boxes and a carousel or two.
PEACE. I love the peace theme. I have no clue why but I do. I was sitting on my roof and it had the perfect sunlight.
Printing Photos From #127 Negatives
Is there anyway I can make prints from size #127 negatives with a Lexmark 1150 or HP PSC 1500 Series printer?
Keeping Track of Photos When Traveling
My daughter's hobby is photography. On a recent vacation out west, she used the following tip to keep track of her photos. As we entered a new state, she would do one of the following:
Picasa: Free Photo Organizer From Google
Someone had told me about Picasa to share and also do some cool editing of my photos. So I downloaded it, for free. It searches for all the pictures on your computer. Well, it found all my pictures that I thought we gone.
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Tips For Photographing Your Garden In Winter
You may not have many (if any) flowers blooming in your garden right now, but the winter season still offers some great opportunities for photographing your garden. Here are a few tips for how to work with winter light, how to create interesting pictures, and how to keep yourself and your camera gear warm and dry.
This poster I did for my son for his birthday. He was on the HS football team that year and used the digital images from the teams website. I did this one in InDesign but you can use any page layout program. I then bought a real nice but inexpensive frame at Michaels.
Breaking the rules of photography can capture some glorious surprise results. Like shooting into the sun when photographing your garden beauties.
Try Different Angles When Photographing Flowers
Try a different angle when photographing flowers. Look up towards the sky. Makes ordinary sunflowers look just heavenly.
