experiments Archive

15Mon June 20, 2011
Panning: A Five Minute Photography Exercise

Panning is the act of following something moving with the camera so the moving person or object appears in focus while the world around it…
2Tue May 24, 2011
Know Your Lenses – Focal Length Photography Exercise

This morning I received an email update that Clickin’ Moms registration for Shooting 301: Composition and Creativity Workshop was open for general registration. (Of course,…
4Mon May 16, 2011
Understanding Exposure Exercises

I’m not sure if it’s fair to say that having kids turned my brain to mush, however I can tell you before having kids I…
16Fri May 13, 2011
Shutter Speed Experiments

Earlier this week in Digital Photo Magazine, I read Experimenting with Shutter Speed with Bryan Peterson, author of amazing photography books such as Understanding Exposure…
4Thu June 24, 2010
Before & After: Texture Experiments

Have you noticed that lately I’ve become a little bit obsessed with textures? I’m trying not to go overboard with applying textures to everything, but…
4Fri May 7, 2010
Create Your Own Bokeh Experiment

I’m quite happy with myself that this evening I found some cardstock and created a cover for my lens to create my own bokeh. If…
3Thu May 6, 2010
Finding Inspiration [126/365]

How to make a simple box studio As adorable as I think my kids are, I need some variety in my Project 365 subjects. For…
0Mon February 1, 2010
[32/365] KFC for Dinner

Had to give into the craving and do KFC for dinner. The "through the Blackberry viewfinder" shot was inspired by this one.
40Thu January 21, 2010
[21/365] Through my eyes

This was taken through my eyeglasses of this photograph (which is quite a bit better than my photo here leads you to believe!) [I searched…