Clickin Moms Blog Circle – Close Up Portraiture

  By Amanda | February 2, 2013 - 8:00 am |
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I am part of a really fun project with thirteen other talented and wonderful women.  We met on Clickin Moms and are participating in a 2013 blog circle.  Every month we each will post about a given theme and link to each other.  I look forward to getting to know each of these women a little better over the course of this year and I hope you’ll join me by clicking through our blog circle.  The talent in this group of women is amazing.  You will be blown away! This month’s theme is close up portraiture. I just adored this … Read more →

Photo Friday – ISO

  By Amanda | February 1, 2013 - 1:18 pm | ,
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So far we have talked about Aperture and shooting in Aperture Priority mode. We’ve talked about shutter speed and shooting in shutter speed priority mode. There is a third way to control light with your camera and that is ISO.  ISO, in digital photography, is how sensitive your camera’s sensor is to light.  The lower your ISO is the less sensitive your sensor is.  The higher the ISO the mores sensitive it is.  Higher ISO settings are generally used in low lighting situations to give you the ability to increase your shutter speed. The standard ISO setting is 100 and … Read more →

Photo Friday – Shutter Speed Priority

  By Amanda | January 25, 2013 - 11:26 am | ,
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This is the second of my photo Friday posts.  Last time I talked about turning your camera off the automatic setting and playing with aperture priority.  Aperture priority was  my preference when I first started playing with my camera. However, there is another setting that allows you some control over the look of your final image while the camera figures out the rest of the settings. Today I’m going to look at shooting in shutter speed priority.  Shutter speed priority let’s you adjust the shutter speed while your camera figures out what the correct aperture is to give you a … Read more →

Don't Stand in your Sunshine

  By Amanda | January 22, 2013 - 10:26 pm | ,
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[mantra-pullquote align=”left|center|right” textalign=”left|center|right” width=”33%”]Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson[/mantra-pullquote] I heard this quote this morning and it got me thinking.  How many times do I criticize myself for falling short or not doing something just so.  Or being too this or too little that.  How often do I stand in my own sunshine.  Looking through my posts I’m struck by how many times I harp on my short comings and focus on where improvement is needed. In fact, reading through many of the blogs I love, I’ve noticed … Read more →

Clinging to my Baby!

  By Amanda | January 21, 2013 - 5:38 pm | , ,
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Will’s second birthday is quickly approaching and as each day passes he becomes less and less baby and more and more like a legit child.  I find myself clinging to those things that still make him seem so little. His paci. The way he cries so hard and then snuggles into my neck as I try to calm him. How he emphatically answers “BABY” when asked if he is a big boy or a baby. I may be slightly mourning his passing into childhood and I find myself trying to capture every last detail before these first couple of years … Read more →