Hello The Crafting Chicks readers! I’m Michelle from Michelle Lea Creative. I spend my days as wife, mom to 3 awesome kiddos, photographer, graphic designer, and chauffeur. I’m so excited to be sharing a little post on photographing your little ones today. I have been in love with photography since I was very young. I love to get lost in the story of an image and a few years ago, I realized how much I love my snapshots that capture the details of the moment or the current stage. It can be … [Read more...] about Childhood Photography: Capturing the Details
10 Tips to Awesome PHONE Photos
10 Tips to Awesome PHONE Photos I know, I know...here I am, a professional photographer, encouraging you how to use your phone camera. Let me explain myself...I love using my digital SLR camera to capture stunning, gorgeous, breathtaking images. SLR cameras are an amazing tool and I get mine out at least weekly, if not daily. However, if I'm being truthful I find my SLR to be big, clunky, and kind of a pain to carry around with me everywhere I go. I use to carry my cumbersome SLR with me at … [Read more...] about 10 Tips to Awesome PHONE Photos
3 Secrets to Better Family Photos
Hey there! It's Katie, from Key to Pictures, and I'm excited to share my 3 juicy secrets to better family photography with you. But first I need to share some equally juicy and exciting.... Here it is: I was a terrible photographer. Really. If all of my early photos were not in a storage unit in Denver, I would post them so you could see that I'm indeed telling the truth. However, I'm not ashamed of my unsightly pictures because we ALL have to start somewhere. Every single one of us has to … [Read more...] about 3 Secrets to Better Family Photos
Blurry Background Photography Tips
A NICE BLURRY BACKGROUND, AHHH. Does your brain start to spin when you start talking about ISO, shutter speed, and aperture? Not to fear, my friends! It is really quite simple. You just need to take it piece by piece and understand each term. So lets talk a bit about aperture, shall we? When you adjust the aperture on your camera you are adjusting the amount of light that is coming into your camera through your lens but you are also adjusting the amount of blurriness in your photo. (If you … [Read more...] about Blurry Background Photography Tips