TeachMeToShoot blog

A few months ago Mpix jumped on the photo book bandwagon. Their software is a whopping 65 meg download, but they give you a lot of flexibility in designing your book and each page.
They have both soft and hard cover books in a few different sizes. Hard cover books are available in 5×5, 10×10 and [...]

MyPublisher is one of the least expensive of the online photo book publishers, with a 20 page paperback starting at $12.95. They’ve recently upgraded their software to version 2.2 and added a Vintage book style and a very colorful Collage style. You can grab the free Bookmaker software directly from their site. (MAC users aren’t [...]

Yesterday the Newsletter subscribers got a nice little article about successful printing at home. Though this is a lengthy subject and could be discussed ad nauseum for weeks, I tried to put across some of the more important points. Watch for future blog posts on the subject.
Briefly, those would be:
Use Good Software – The free [...]

In order to capture the peak of the action you must have your timing right. When you’re shooting your kids bouncing around the backyard it’s not easy to capture the moment. Too much random movement. Shooting sports or action events are easier since there are usually repeated actions. Watching and learning these actions will allow [...]

This week is the discussion of specular highlight control along with examples. There are a lot of photos on the Flickr thread where many photogs have shown their technique and results. It’s worth going there to check out what can be done with simple tools. A flash, some typing paper or the DIY macro light [...]

The other day I talked about recovering corrupt images from a memory card. In order to do this you’ll need a USB Card Reader or one built in to your computer or printer. Any of these allow you to access the memory card just like it was another drive. They show up in Windows Explorer [...]