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Quick! Before He Takes it Down!
Guess what? I wrote a guest post for Scott Kelby’s website today. In the post, I both babble like a maniac and show just a few of my very favorite pieces of photography equipment. I don’t think Scott...
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Doctor, Doctor – Gimme the News
Attention, Attention: I hereby request that all persons who: a) are smarter than me and/or b) have experience in this realm …please advise me: a) what in tarnation has happened to my camera and b)...
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The Macro Lens
By Miz Booshay. A really cool thing about getting to spend time with another photographer is being able to try some of their stuff. Especially when you are both Nikon girls. The first night of my visit...
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My Current Favorite Lens
Note: Rather than post an exhaustive list of all the photography equipment I’m using these days, I thought I’d devote individual posts the the lenses, accessories, etc. that I love. Here’s the first...
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Focus and the Diopter
The question I am asked most frequently is “How do you get such good focus?” I wrote a post for Ree a few years ago, and here it is: The Secret to Focus Yet I still receive frustrated emails and...
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Soft Light/Picture Control
One of the first Photoshop tutorials I taught was on using Soft Light. Since I learned about the Vivid mode in my Nikon camera, I don’t need to use such a dramatic tool as often. My pictures are...
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Lens Distortion, by Miz Booshay
By Miz Booshay. This picture got me thinking. Katie’s face looked off to me. Her nose seemed longer and one cheek looks indented while the other is not. I have on the 35mm 2.0 lens. It is a wide angle...
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In Which I Hand Out a Bit of Friendly Advice
By Miz Booshay. When you buy a camera, a digital SLR camera, it will most likely come with a kit lens. These kit lenses are most commonly: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II SLR Lens The Nikon D5000...
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Five Years Ago
Looking through my photo archives is an exercise in hilarity and confusion, and here’s why: When I got my first camera in May 2006, the internal date was correct. When I got a different model at the...
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Auto ISO
On the car trip to Colorado, I changed a setting on my camera. I switched it to Auto ISO. I’ve never had my camera on this setting before; I’ve always manually controlled the ISO on my camera. I...
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YOUR Splendiferous Phone Photos: Group 7
Here’s Group 7! Thanks for being patient as I look through all the submissions. By Alizarin10. How lovely is this?!? By Erin Nicole. Beautiful! By franciscan heart. Really cool and...
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YOUR Lovely Phone Photos: Group 8
Here’s Group 8! Note: This contest has received (I believe) the most entries of any photo contest I’ve had. Thanks for being patient over the past couple of weeks! I’ll probably wind up doing one or...
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YOUR Perfect Phone Photos: The Final Group!
Here’s the final group of submissions! I tried to get through as many as I possibly could—thank you for being patient with me while I plowed through all the awesome photos. My next order of...
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YOUR Phone Photos: The Finalists!
Here are the finalists! Whew, was it tough to narrow things down. Feel free to shout out your favorites, of course. By AmandyP. By Kirsten Patel. By Erinhkw. By psych mamma....
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Three Winners
First of all, EACH of the finalists I featured yesterday will receive a $50 gift card from Amazon.com. Your submissions were nothing short of amazing. Contact prizes@thepioneerwoman.com to claim your...
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Take a Picture with Your Honey!
By Miz Booshay. Do you remember a few years ago when I ordered you to get in the picture? Well…out of all the posts I have written for Ree, that one the most popular. I have taken it to heart and take...
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Exposing for the Sky
Photography is all about exposure, or the light that is allowed to be let in when a photo is taken. Learning how to adjust exposure to get the effect you’re looking for is one of the things all...
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Instajacked
It hasn’t happened many times. But it has happened. Raise your hand if your child has ever used your phone to post a photo of himself on your Instagram account without your knowledge. *Raising hand*...
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Manhattan Sunset
I posted a glimpse of this on Confessions the other day. My sister and I left New York Sunday to head to our mom’s house and I got a chance to see some incredible views from the plane. This one...
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I Love Photography!
A short time after I started my blog in 2006, I got a “big girl camera” and began learning about photography. My learning approach was to take thousands and thousands of pictures—many of them pretty...
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