Box Padding...

Today I'd really like to oblige friends, family and clients who ask me for photography tips. One of the biggest and best ones I have is to take the padding out of your camera box, it usually has the name/model of the camera you've just bought boldly typed on the front - sometimes called a manual - and read it from front to back. Am I being funny? Yes and no. It really does have a lot of very good information in it that can improve your picture taking substantially. Now I would dearly love to teach everyone about their personal camera but since there are over 100 different models on the market right now that just seems a little overwhelming! But I did want to include two photos for comparison purposes. Both of these images are SOOC (straight out of camera) which means the only alterations that have been made pertains to uploading to my blog. I actually like both images as they are but the point is, you don't have to shoot your images using the factory settings on your camera. It's fantastic, you can enter into your camera's menu and press a few buttons and there you have it, a much more saturated, dramatic image of a floral heart shaped wreath from Valentines Day that I have failed to take down (almost a week later)...I hope at least some of you will try this, as boring as it may sound I think you'll appreciate the results.

~Sharon