Jen here with another First Year post…and this one is about the blanket fort I built for my baby. Some of my favorite photos of my middle sister and me are from our little tyke years. We were all smiles as we peeked out from our favorite hang out place: the fort we would often […]

Previously, we talked about how to choose your shutter speed for sports.  We learned about the three types of action: stop, blur and pan.  For each of these types of action shots I gave you some starting shutter speeds to work with, but there were still quite a few questions about shutter speed.  It’s tough, […]

This month’s blog circle with our teachers is “7 Women Photographers Capture Thankfulness”.  A big dose of visual inspiration for your next few weeks.  Is there any better theme for November than thankfulness?  No way!  Your CONFIDENCE Teachers are super excited to share a small window into their own worlds through the photos they take!  […]

Learning from our mistakes is so much easier said than done.  It’s much easier to beat ourselves up, or worse…give up.  But life is full of making mistakes, especially the creative process.  Amy Rhodes, our Las Vegas CONFIDENCE Teacher, is not only an awesome photographer but super down-to-earth.  She sent me this story and asked […]

As promised, this week we’re going to talk about how to choose your shutter speed for sports.  Great sport plays take place in a fraction of a second, and so do the pictures that capture them. So how do you get it right? The first question you need to ask yourself when choosing a shutter […]

I started a beginning drawing class last night. It seemed insane to do with how crazy life has been.  I head to Minneapolis tomorrow, and I haven’t had a chance to unpack my suitcase from NYC.  Pascaline has had the flu all week, Brian and Blaze came down with it yesterday.  Book Three’s copy-edit was […]