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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Hailey and Robert | Alabama Wedding Photographer

Here are some favorites from Hailey and Robert’s wedding. One of my favorite ring shots ever.  Hailey has “I Do” jewels on the sole of her shoes.  Love that!The First Look. A daddy’s moment with his girl. Robert’s cake was 100% Alabama Football. Can you say Diva?The reception at the beautiful Joseph T. Smitherman Historic…

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Photography 101 | FAQ | Shooting in Manual Mode

Another great question regarding this week’s lesson…(thanks, John). John asked, “When shooting in manual mode, how do you know where to start?” Look at your subject, look at the light. Look at your subject and set your aperture according to the light. Remember when we talked in a previous lesson on aperture?  Your aperture controls…

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Photography 101 | Shooting in Manual Mode

Whoaaaaa!!  Wuh!? Because of Brenda’s question last week, I thought it best to go ahead and address this.  Thanks Brenda for pushing yourself and thinking ahead…for thinking outside the box. Stay with me.  You can do this!  You’re ready!  Hopefully you’re already adjusting your shutter speed, aperture and ISO accordingly, so it’s time to take…

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Photography 101 | Flash Samples

I’m giving you a break today.  Today I’m only posting some examples to culminate everything we’ve been talking about adding light or flash or strobe or whatever.  I hope you’ve been playing around with your own camera and putting into action what you’ve learned this far. As I was all alone in the house and…

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Photography 101 | Strobe

Hahahaha!!!  I’m busting out laughing at myself right now……  bare with me….. I’ve often said that I can type faster than I can write and almost faster than my brain can think sometimes.  This happens when I’m typing and other words just happen on the page and it’s not what I was trying to type. …

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Just the Two of Us

Clark and I enjoyed going to Gulf Shores a few weeks ago.   Alone.  By ourselves.  Without the kids.  A couple of reasons we went really.  First, we just needed a few days to get away.  Ya ever have those times when you just need silence and nothing-ness for a time.  We needed that.  Even…

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