Archive for the ‘Photographing Animals’ Category
Submit Digital Photos by March 15 — Extended Deadline April 5
You’ve got to have a few terrific digital photos on your hard drive or in your camera that you could enter in the PDN Faces Portrait photo contest.
Who is PDN:
Photo District News (PDN), the award-winning monthly magazine for the professional photographer, has been covering the professional photographic industry for over two decades.
Who Can Enter: Amateur and professional photographers
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Take 3 Minutes to Make a Mini Photo Notebook
These are great stocking stuffers for anyone. All you need is a digital photo to upload.
That’s it — place your order now and you can have these cute little notebooks for Christmas!
A set of four mini notebooks (2.5″ x 3.5″) is just $7. Give a personalized set to everyone on your Santa list. Prefer a larger photo notebook? Lifephoto offers two additional sizes. continue reading
Try Closeup Digital Photos of Your Puppy
If you can get your pup to stay still for more 
than a moment, try to capture a closeup shot like this one. I used a Kodak EasyShare Z980 in Sport (or Action) mode. I moved in close to the pup’s nose with my camera in a vertical position. (Had to clean the lens a couple of times from puppy nose juice before I got the shot I wanted!)
Snap a few shots — not everyone will work out perfectly — so give yourself some choices.
I “Photoshopped” in the Santa hat — which I downloaded from Microsoft’s ClipArt site. (Had to resize it a bit to work on this photo — but wanted it to look small and goofy on the pup. continue reading
I’ve snapped a photo or two of large spider webs in the last 
couple of years — it’s not easy to get a good shot. Taking the time to take a picture of a spider web appeals to a precious few who like the unique and the unusual. One of my favorite photography bloggers, Darren Rowse, just published a post on how to take a good shot of a spider web. And he’s got some terrific photo examples on the post as well. You’ll really enjoy those! continue reading
I occasionally read Photography Bay and found two tips in a recent post I’d like to pass along to you about taking great pictures. Many of us take a broad photo of a scene — the subject we want and all the scenery around that subject. Sometimes just zooming in tight on the subject creates a better photo. Here are two points from Chris Gampat’s post, “7 tips for shooting sports and action.” I think these tips are valuable for most any kind of photo subject. continue reading
If you’re a photo nut, then you’ve probably got hundreds of random digital photos that you’ve taken — just because.
They might be of pets, wildlife, flowers or foliage, scenic views or who knows what! They don’t fall under the category of “family” photos or even “vacation photos.” They’re just shots of something that intrigued you.
This pup’s photo intrigued me.
I didn’t take it, but discovered it on a photo blog today — The Brenda Photo Challenge Blog. It reminded me that one way to get your fun photos out of mothballs … continue reading
Who doesn’t love to photograph their pet?
A cat is part of the family and its photos are part of the family photo album. With the pictures you may already have of your pet, you can easily create a pet photo book that tells the story of your pet and portrays its best moments in pictures.
Capturing Your Cat’s Personality with a Digital Camera
Michele Gauger, a Master Photographer with many distinguished photographic honors, produced a wonderful coffee table book that features several beautiful, mysterious and fun-loving cats. Here’s a picture of the cover. It’s a hardcover book, but an amateur photographer can also produce it on lifephoto.com with a softcover and in a variety of sizes. continue reading
When I travel, I take a wide range of digital photos including interesting animals. Some of the critter pics can turn out to be terrific shots, but they usually get lost on the photo CD and I rarely remember to look at them again. With easy and inexpensive photo applications from lifephoto.com, critter pics can take on a very fun life of their own and be quite inexpensive to do.
Making animal photos come alive
I recently decided that some of my critter shots needed to be displayed — I wanted to enjoy them. Here’s an example of one photo I really loved. I turned it into a 12″x18″ vertical personalized poster in just a very few minutes. Perfect for framing! Here’s what I did: continue reading
