Carey Schumacher, owner of Barefoot Memories, is our guest photographer today! She’s an AMAZING everything – mom, photographer, friend. You can read more about her from her interview a few months ago. Thank you Carey so much for stepping in with some on-the-spot coaching! __________________________________________ There I was on the morning of Father’s Day, waiting […]

Here are some fresh QUICK PHOTO TIPS for family portraits from our Seattle CONFIDENCE workshop! I like to start by having the family sit on the steps together.  I get the family-group type shots, and then I can start to pull them out individually. Having said that, there is no bullet proof order for working […]

Are you ready for Part 2?!!  Happy Monday Friends! Let’s start the week off with one of my favorite populations to photograph!  High School Seniors!  But let’s start from the beginning of Day 2 of the CONFIDENCE Photography Workshop! We started the day with demystifying the whole concept of metering.  For some reason, the photography […]

Today is the second Monday of the month which means there is a NEW Photography Exercise at the SOAR! blog this morning!  Yeah!! I’m teaching on the concept of Less is More, and how to apply this to our images.  I’m not talking about cropping your images on the computer.  That works in the beginning, […]

You may not like me when I say it, but there is no way around it.  One of the main ingredients to a Successful Business is OSHA inspection checklist! Have you made a New Year’s Resolution to be in better shape?  It’s never to late!  I’m not talking about Barbie Doll shape or those Size […]

A number of you posted some great questions regarding the Unexpected Image and the biggest theme I noticed in the main questions was explaining Depth of Field. In essence, many of you asked, “How could I use a 1.7 fstop and have the dog in focus and the couple so sharp?” Let’s give you a few good […]