Monthly Archives: May 2014

Baby Photography, Props

Baby Knitted Props on Etsy

Shirley’s knitting is gorgeous, I bought a couple of her baby shorts from Etsy. They are very well made and worth more than every penny. I LOVE her work and am going just ordered another today and told her I am going to order a whole bunch more as I keep getting paid because I LOVE all her work so much. Seriously she is favorite knitter. Yarn is soft and not tight at all for the babies. My clients love them. I bought a white pair as well for the 6 month olds. I just ordered a white pair for the 1 year old as well I LOVE them so much. I told her I wanted some for my newborns coming too!

Here is her shop on esty.

https://www.etsy.com/people/titchbiz

She has over 40 years of knitting experience to bring you a quality product.

Phoenix baby Photographer 7

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Equipment, Photography Business, Photography Resources

BACK UP your work !!!

BACK UP  your work in at least 3 places. I can’t tell you enough how important it is. I can’t stress it enough.

A great reason to have an Apple computer is the time machine. The time machine is where you buy an external hard drive such as Western Digital for a Mac 2Tb, 3TB or 4TB now. You set your system preferences up on your Mac so that every hour your entire machine will back up automatically. So if anything on your computer breaks the entire computer is backed up.

Let me tell you a couple stories 1 I just bought a brand new Mac from Apple it was $1200 just came out. It was my first Apple I was super excited and everyone told me to get the apple care which I didn’t at the time because I didn’t have the money but you have up to a year to buy it. Anyways within maybe 2 weeks my motherboard fired or I think it was the harddrive and I took it back to Apple. They said did you back it up and luckily because I had since I bought it set up the time machine from day 1 they told me to. I was able to get a brand new Apple Mac computer took it home plugged it into my external hard drive and the time machine synched the entire computer back up as if it was never even a different computer. It was awesome.

2. I second shot for someone and accidentally erased a folder. For me when I take my pictures off my camera I back my pictures up 1 on my computer 2. on my external hard drives and 3 I have my time machine. I know I have it in 3 places. Somehow a folder got erased no clue how it happened but it did. I am a very cautious person I NEVER erase pictures I still have pictures seriously from 6 years ago when I first started my business. I even kept the raw files from 5 years ago. I am crazy cautious and always take extra steps but things happen it’s called and accident. That’s why I LOVE the time machine. I was able to go back a few dates back to the date I shot the wedding an sure enough every single image and folder was there. That is why the time machine is extremely important. Did I make a mistake yes was it is bad yes will you make mistake yes because we are huge and make mistakes every single day all the time. Get a external hard drive even if you have a PC you can have it back up the same to automatically back up every hour.

 

Equipment

starter SLR recommendation

I get this question a lot especially during the holidays. These camera’s are really great but if you want pro looking photography no matter what camera or lens you buy this isn’t going to make your pictures look like a Professional took them. The reason being is that a Professional Photographer who gives and takes professional photograph’s has extensive training in photography, camera settings, posing, composition and post processing, art, perspective, software editing, lighting, read tons of books on photography,  etc.

These camera are a great nice basic camera that take good pictures but are NOT professional in any means.  A Professional Photographer will have an artistic eye for taking pictures a talent that isn’t like just taking one of these camera’s and pointing them at a subject and getting something pretty. A Professional Photographer has years and years of practice and hours upon hours of shooting for their portfolio. I am writing this because I don’t want to recommend these camera’s to my friends/clients thinking that these camera’s will give you the same results as a Professional Photographer would.

Another thing is a Pro should be using over $5,000- $10,000 in equipment to take pictures of your family. Plus software that costs over $400 a year to use to edit with, plus many more things.

Yes you can get creamy backgrounds “bokeh” from some of the lenses but your photos will not have the exact same artistic look. – be aware before investing a lot of money into a camera you don’t know how to you or won’t take the time to learn it. It’s usually best to invest your money into hiring a family photographer someone who will capture moments of your children you won’t be able to do yourself without having an artistic eye for photography.

What is the best  starting SLR model for a camera that you would  recommendation?

Point and Shoot: we bought a Nikon for around $140 and it took horrible photos. We had a Canon PowerShot SD 12mp before and LOVED it. I will be buying that one again.

Here is the middle priced one and they go up and down in price but it’s a great camera!

THESE CAMERA’S CHANGE EACH YEAR SO YOUR GOING TO HAVE TO FIND OUT WHAT THE LATEST YEAR EQUIVALENCE IS.

CANON POWERSHOT SD – great pocket camera

These are not  professional model’s just a good base starter camera’s. Amazon and Costco usually have the best prices for these camera’s. Costco you can sometimes get an extra lens with it as well. Plus their return policy is the best. But Amazon has no tax so that is a big plus!.

I currently a Nikon girl of 8 years actually I just this week switched to Canon Mark iii.

I would LOVE a $6,600 Nikon D4s or Canon EOS 1D $6,7999 that’s a dream camera. The thing is you have to decide which one you want first because you can’t change lenses.   Think and do your research before you invest $ into your lenses.

Canon has warmer colors and Nikon has cooler colors  this year the camera’s white balance is really great for fixing it. . Which of course you can change in software such as Adobe Photoshop.. These camera’s will probably changed by next year so keep that in mind if you are reading this now.

I do not know if one is easier than the other because I have mostly used Nikon. You can borrow one to see from borrowlenses.com

Here is a great site that compares Nikon and Canon starter SLR camera’s

http://www.digital-slr-guide.com/canon-vs-nikon.html

Starter SLR Camera – for average family but not intended for professional looking photos

Nikon D3000 10.2MP – 2013- comes with a lens

Nikon D5000 12.3 MP :

Canon Rebel XS 10.1MP :$474

Canon EOS Rebel T1i 15.1 MP:

Canon EOS 60D 18 MP 

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