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Category Archives: Photography

An Inexpensive Alternative to Canvas Prints

5 / 5 / 1612 / 31 / 16

A few months ago, I made some triangle bunting for my three year old’s bedroom. As I was attempting to explain to my son the aesthetic appeal of home decor, I told him we’d hang a picture of one of Pop’s cows. Case was somewhat confused about the triangles hanging in his room, but once… Read More

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An Inexpensive Alternative to Gold Foil Christmas Cards

12 / 2 / 1512 / 31 / 16

Were you all here for this post? I talked a LOT about how to take your own family pictures for your Christmas card. I also said I’d show you the end result once I got it all finished. It’s finished. It feels kind of good to be ahead of the game right now. Let’s see… Read More

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Photography Mini Series Part 8: How to Take Your Own Family Pictures for Your Christmas Card

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Hi everyone! So last week I said we were going to finish up this photography series. Our family had a little unexpected twist of events Sunday afternoon that warranted another photography post. A couple weeks ago, our family and some friends headed out to take family pictures. Our intent was to take pictures for each other,… Read More

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Mini Photography Series Part 7: Where To Focus When Taking Pictures

11 / 18 / 154 / 1 / 16

Hi! Welcome to Part 7 of our mini Photography Series. Next week we will wrap up our photography series talking a little about the cameras and lenses I would recommend depending on what kind of photography goals you have. Learning the photography puzzle can have it’s challenges, but the rewards are great! If you are… Read More

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Mini Photography Series Part 6: The Benefits of Shooting in Raw

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Hi all! Welcome back to our series on photography! Learning the photography puzzle can have it’s challenges, but the rewards are great! If you are joining us for the first time today, I encourage you to check out the first five posts of this series: Six Reasons to Learn to Shoot in Manual Mode Aperture: How… Read More

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Photography Mini Series Part 5: What is the Best Lighting for taking Pictures?

11 / 4 / 154 / 1 / 16

Welcome to part five of our photography mini series. Learning the photography puzzle can have it’s challenges, but the rewards are great! If you are joining us for the first time today, I encourage you to check out the first four posts of this series: Six Reasons to Learn to Shoot in Manual Mode Aperture: How… Read More

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Photography Mini series Part 4: Shutter Speed and Metering; How to take Bright Pictures

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Welcome to part four of our photography mini series. Learning the photography puzzle can have it’s challenges, but the rewards are great! If you are joining us for the first time today, I encourage you to check out the first three posts of this series: Six Reasons to Learn to Shoot in Manual Mode Aperture: How… Read More

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Photography Mini Series Part 3: How to set your ISO to take Bright and Balanced Images

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Welcome to part three of our photography mini series. Learning the photography puzzle can have it’s challenges, but the rewards are great! If you are joining us for the first time today, I encourage you to check out the first two posts of our series: Photography Mini Series Part 1: Six Reasons to Learn to… Read More

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Photography Mini Series Part 2: Aperture; How to get that Blurry Background in Pictures

10 / 14 / 1512 / 31 / 16

Good morning! If you are here for the first time, welcome to our mini series about photography. If you missed the first week, you can find it here.  Please know we are not a photography blog. I am offering this short series in hopes of teaching others like myself who want to get great pictures… Read More

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Photography Mini Series Part 1: Six Benefits of Learning to Shoot in Manual Mode

10 / 7 / 1512 / 31 / 16

Posted by: Kelli Aperture. Exposure. Shutter speed. ISO. White balance. Metering. Raw files. Histogram. Some of you may know all about the words I listed above. Many of you probably know more than me about those words above. If you don’t know much about that list, know this: I am not a straight A student,… Read More

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