About Me
- Name: Barbara
- Location: United States
Mom. Wife. Daughter. Digital Artist. Amateur Photographer. Digital Scrapbooker. Memory Keeper. Mompreneur.
I work and blog at Cherish Collages
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Last post on Blogger
This is my goodbye to Blogger post. It's been lovely and I've learned so much about blogging and templates and html, but I re-designed my website and moved my blog over to Wordpress at my website address.
A new year, a new website and a new blog! There are lots of new products available, including two new photo collage styles, framing is now available, and many more finishing options such as printing on matboard or canvas. Many more sizes are now available as well.
Please, come on over to Cherish Blog!
A new year, a new website and a new blog! There are lots of new products available, including two new photo collage styles, framing is now available, and many more finishing options such as printing on matboard or canvas. Many more sizes are now available as well.
Please, come on over to Cherish Blog!
Saturday, January 06, 2007
January in upstate NY
Well, you wouldn't know it by the weather we're having, that's for sure! It's January 6th today and here in the very North East, we were outside for over an hour without any coats on. Hubby got his golf clubs out of the basement and went to play golf. It's totally insane! We have not had any snow yet, a snall dusting that didn't even cover all of the grass.
Enjoy it while it lasts all you northeasteners!
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Total Meltdown!
Well, I am spending my time now working on getting a new computer loaded with all my goodies. My hard drive crashed a few days ago, pretty scary stuff. I had just, literally a few minutes before, moved my business folder over to a portable hard drive. Thank goodness! I only lost the new website I was working on, not a huge deal, and lost my personal email contacts, but business wise everything is fine. The good news is, a new state of the art, super fast computer is now running the show. Much better!
A re-vamped website is coming, obviously it’s going to take a little longer than expected. New products, and a new Wordpress blog, I am leaving Blogger.
Hope everyone had a great Christmas! I will return in the New Year with new and improved everything.
A re-vamped website is coming, obviously it’s going to take a little longer than expected. New products, and a new Wordpress blog, I am leaving Blogger.
Hope everyone had a great Christmas! I will return in the New Year with new and improved everything.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Merry Christmas!
Well, it's here, didn't I tell you it was coming soon months ago? LOL
I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, hope you all get lots of digital fun stuff! I'm just waiting for the money so I can get my own digital goodies! I like to pick it out myself.
I hope all those last minute collage orders I processed over the past few weeks are much appreciated by the recipients on Christmas morning, they make such unique fun gifts!
My family is starting to trickle in as of today so I probably won't be posting until next week, a much deserved little break to enjoy Christmas before getting back to business. This year should be fun, my oldest is 3 1/2 and finally understands Santa and is so excited that he's coming to "my house" as he says. If he behaves that is. I've been playing the Santa card for months now, but it's not working too well. LOL I cannot wait to see his face Christmas morning!
Don't forget to take lots of pictures, perhaps a Memories of Christmases Past Collage is in your future!
Merry Christmas!
I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, hope you all get lots of digital fun stuff! I'm just waiting for the money so I can get my own digital goodies! I like to pick it out myself.
I hope all those last minute collage orders I processed over the past few weeks are much appreciated by the recipients on Christmas morning, they make such unique fun gifts!
My family is starting to trickle in as of today so I probably won't be posting until next week, a much deserved little break to enjoy Christmas before getting back to business. This year should be fun, my oldest is 3 1/2 and finally understands Santa and is so excited that he's coming to "my house" as he says. If he behaves that is. I've been playing the Santa card for months now, but it's not working too well. LOL I cannot wait to see his face Christmas morning!
Don't forget to take lots of pictures, perhaps a Memories of Christmases Past Collage is in your future!
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
How to Photograph Christmas Lights
Driving around looking at all those pretty sparkling Christmas lights, have you wondered why your pictures of them never turn out...here are some tips from a pro on getting good holiday lights shots.
Digital Photography Tip - How To Photograph Christmas Lights
By Amy Renfrey
Christmas is coming and so is the urge for us who love digital photography to get out there in the burbs and photograph the beautiful Christmas lights. It’s a beautiful time of year and when you are as passionate about digital photography as I am, then this is the time you whip that digital camera out.
Taking photos of Christmas lights with your digital camera can be a very disappointing experience for digital photography enthusiasts. Pictures of Christmas lights in digital photography are aimed at being crystal clear with beautifully bold colours and hopefully we can capture the delicate glow that radiates from the lights themselves.
But…Christmas lights don’t always provide the ideal digital photography experience does it? J In fact, in digital photography, Christmas lights can turnout to be smudged dots of colour, like water over ink and way too dark. The first time I took a digital photography image of Christmas lights the flash went off accidentally causing a flattening out of my images not to mention the lovely colours disappearing and it ended up just being a digital photo of the neighbour’s front lawn. Not to mention how it set the dog off barking!
So just what is the digital photography secret to getting crystal clear shots of our suburban Christmas lights?
Okay now I’m going to share a secret with you. The best way to get suburb results of sharp, colourful Christmas lights is to choose the house you are going to photograph. Depending on where you live and how fast you can run, you may need to tee it up with your neighboughs first and offer them the photo. The same rules apply with your Christmas tree.
Take your tripod with you. Take your digital camera off “auto” and take it off “auto flash”.
Now try a method called bracketing. Set the aperture at a wide f stop, such as 2.8 or 3.5 for example. Then proceed to try some different settings. Set the shutter to 1/30 or higher. I’d recommend, if it’s really dark in the street something around the one second, two seconds or three seconds shutter speed.
There is a groovy little trick you can also do for helping you learning faster, about what works in digital photography and what doesn’t. That’s recording and documenting your digital photography experience. I usually take a note pad with me and write down the number photo and the f stop and shutter speed so when I look at the photos I know which digital photo has worked and what has not.
But in the dark it’s very hard to write down anything so you can do what I sued to do, and that is record on Mp3 what your settings you had on what photo. For example you can record yourself saying “picture one, f stop 2.8, shutter speed 2 seconds.” Then again as you have tried another setting “picture seven, f stop 22, shutter speed 1 minute.”
These are just examples but they really work. Don’t forget the basics with your night time photography such as wide aperture and slow shutter speed and the necessity of a tripod.
If you are in a moving vehicle for example and you are taking shots of Christmas lights from a bus or car, then you can always use the maximum aperture and a smaller shutter speed. For example f stop 1.4 and a shutter of 1/350 or higher.
And don’t forget if you do have the time to set up a tripod and try the bracketing technique (ideal) also remember if you have the shutter open for a while the light can bounce off other objects such as windows and roofs. If you get too much reflective light, simply reduce the time the shutter is open.
Good luck and may you have a beautiful Christmas!
Happy Shooting,
Amy Renfrey
P.s Take a look at the photo used to describe the article; www.nomorebadphotos.blogspot.com
Amy Renfrey is a digital photographer, teacher and author of “Digital Photography Success.” She’s sold tens of thousands of copies since the start of 2005 when she went online. Amy’s new book, soon to be released, titled “Advanced Digital Photography” to propel photography enthusiasts from amateur to semi professional level. Amy is known for her thorough and easy to read style, giving her readers challenges and expert advice to get their precious memories looking like picture perfect images. “Digital Photography Success” can be found at http://www.DigitalPhotographySuccess.com
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Digital Photography Tip - How To Photograph Christmas Lights
By Amy Renfrey
Christmas is coming and so is the urge for us who love digital photography to get out there in the burbs and photograph the beautiful Christmas lights. It’s a beautiful time of year and when you are as passionate about digital photography as I am, then this is the time you whip that digital camera out.
Taking photos of Christmas lights with your digital camera can be a very disappointing experience for digital photography enthusiasts. Pictures of Christmas lights in digital photography are aimed at being crystal clear with beautifully bold colours and hopefully we can capture the delicate glow that radiates from the lights themselves.
But…Christmas lights don’t always provide the ideal digital photography experience does it? J In fact, in digital photography, Christmas lights can turnout to be smudged dots of colour, like water over ink and way too dark. The first time I took a digital photography image of Christmas lights the flash went off accidentally causing a flattening out of my images not to mention the lovely colours disappearing and it ended up just being a digital photo of the neighbour’s front lawn. Not to mention how it set the dog off barking!
So just what is the digital photography secret to getting crystal clear shots of our suburban Christmas lights?
Okay now I’m going to share a secret with you. The best way to get suburb results of sharp, colourful Christmas lights is to choose the house you are going to photograph. Depending on where you live and how fast you can run, you may need to tee it up with your neighboughs first and offer them the photo. The same rules apply with your Christmas tree.
Take your tripod with you. Take your digital camera off “auto” and take it off “auto flash”.
Now try a method called bracketing. Set the aperture at a wide f stop, such as 2.8 or 3.5 for example. Then proceed to try some different settings. Set the shutter to 1/30 or higher. I’d recommend, if it’s really dark in the street something around the one second, two seconds or three seconds shutter speed.
There is a groovy little trick you can also do for helping you learning faster, about what works in digital photography and what doesn’t. That’s recording and documenting your digital photography experience. I usually take a note pad with me and write down the number photo and the f stop and shutter speed so when I look at the photos I know which digital photo has worked and what has not.
But in the dark it’s very hard to write down anything so you can do what I sued to do, and that is record on Mp3 what your settings you had on what photo. For example you can record yourself saying “picture one, f stop 2.8, shutter speed 2 seconds.” Then again as you have tried another setting “picture seven, f stop 22, shutter speed 1 minute.”
These are just examples but they really work. Don’t forget the basics with your night time photography such as wide aperture and slow shutter speed and the necessity of a tripod.
If you are in a moving vehicle for example and you are taking shots of Christmas lights from a bus or car, then you can always use the maximum aperture and a smaller shutter speed. For example f stop 1.4 and a shutter of 1/350 or higher.
And don’t forget if you do have the time to set up a tripod and try the bracketing technique (ideal) also remember if you have the shutter open for a while the light can bounce off other objects such as windows and roofs. If you get too much reflective light, simply reduce the time the shutter is open.
Good luck and may you have a beautiful Christmas!
Happy Shooting,
Amy Renfrey
P.s Take a look at the photo used to describe the article; www.nomorebadphotos.blogspot.com
Amy Renfrey is a digital photographer, teacher and author of “Digital Photography Success.” She’s sold tens of thousands of copies since the start of 2005 when she went online. Amy’s new book, soon to be released, titled “Advanced Digital Photography” to propel photography enthusiasts from amateur to semi professional level. Amy is known for her thorough and easy to read style, giving her readers challenges and expert advice to get their precious memories looking like picture perfect images. “Digital Photography Success” can be found at http://www.DigitalPhotographySuccess.com
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Win a Dream Scapbooking year!
Scrapbookers, win a dream scrapbooking year from Memory Makers Magazine!
Memory Makers Magazine is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a fun contest, win a dream scrapbooking year, including events, products from top manufacturers, a free scrapping blog, and much more.
Enter to win at Memory Makers Magazine
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Memory Makers Magazine is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a fun contest, win a dream scrapbooking year, including events, products from top manufacturers, a free scrapping blog, and much more.
Enter to win at Memory Makers Magazine
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Kate Spade brings style to your photos!
Sweet! Here is a gift for the Princess on your list. A Kate Spade leather keychain frame. It's adorable! Comes in several color choices. You'll never lose your keys with this keychain! From Sendaframe.com
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