It’s usually a good idea to have people in focus when you take a picture. However, it sometimes doesn’t matter. This photo was taken at my son’s wedding. Although I’m not in focus, I still love the photo. Memories that are out of focus mean just as much as those that are carefully in focus. 🙂
Taking family photos is great, preserving family memories is even more important! Saving your family memories is easy, fast, and free. Here are the suggested steps:
Do whatever is necessary to preserve your family memories…now.
[Incidentally, I offer a workshop on preserving family memories. For details, please contact me.]
Did you know that Apple can help you take better pictures with your iPhone. Although it’s a little hidden, it is available. Check out https://support.apple.com/explore/taking-managing-photos.
All you have to do is take a single photo with your smartphone. Go ahead. Take it right now.
To see if you passed the test go to The Test.
That’s it. You’ll be told if you passed the test there. It’s really a very simple test.
I used this handout for a workshop I conducted a few years ago. I decided to use all Pug photos for the workshop. The people liked it, I hope you find it helpful. I once did a photo workshop using only one photo…it was the Polaroid photo in this handout. That one was taken at P.J.’s first dog show…about 30 years ago. He didn’t do very well that day, but eventually he became a champion. I miss him.
Most of us are facing colder weather…soon. Those lovely flowers won’t be there much longer. Preserve your garden memories by taking photos now. Make prints and hang them up to admire them during the winter. They also serve as reminders of where you planted what. Go ahead…preserve your garden memories!
Looking at my iPhone Photos file I found this…
The number it doesn’t show is the number of prints I have made in the last month. Zero.
It dawned on me that shooting with the fastest camera I ever had, my iPhone, hasn’t produced many worthy (in my opinion) images. So…I decided to slow down and create a new talk called “Point-and-Shoot vs. Point-and-Meditate.”
Stay tuned for the details.
Today, you can take out your iPhone, find a mirror, or just hold out your hand and take a selfie. This “selfie” was taken with a Polaroid 195 camera and a flash that was pointed to the ceiling. Cool!
This is my “Gameboy” look via the NOMO iPhone app. A new look for selfies? 🙂
Years ago, when I was a wedding photographer I used a Hasselblad. It took 120 or 220 film. As a wedding photographer (way back in the 1980s) we used flash for just about all of the photos indoors. If you used a rectangular format camera you would need to shift the flash every time you changed from vertical to horizontal. Very annoying. That’s what was great about the Hasselblad. It took square photos…no shifting needed.
Now, if you use an iPhone, square is an option. It’s the option I used most of the time. It allows you to “crop” in the camera (iPhone). It’s one of my favorite features. If you don’t already shoot in squares try it. Maybe you’ll become a square like me.