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How to Take Better Photos of Wildflowers
8 Tips for Taking Great Digital Photos of Wildflowers
If you love snapping nature photos, especially of beautiful and unusual wildflowers, you’ll pick up a few tips from this post. Written by a Photo Naturalist, the post is from the Digital Photography School site — and I’d recommend it. And, of course, the photos are fabulous! And don’t forget, you can find great ways to print and share those wildflower photos you take when you upload them to lifephoto.com.
8 Tips for Photographing Wildflowers
In this post, Steve Berardi from PhotoNaturalist discusses eight tips for photographing wildflowers.To get the softly diffused light in this photo, I waited for an overcast sky. (Photo by Steve Berardi)With spring on the horizon in some parts of the world, you may be thinking about photographing some beautiful wildflowers soon. So, here are 8 tips to get you started:
1. Use a tripod
Using a tripod will help you get sharper photos by ensuring your camera doesn?t move. But, the tripod helps in another way too: it forces you to be more careful about your composition.
When you handhold your camera, there?s a tendency to just snap away, but when you add the tripod, you?ll spend more time thinking about your composition and ensuring your camera is in a very precise position.
2. Wait for an overcast or cloudy day
Remember the Birthday Fun
Do you have tons of pictures you took at your child’s last birthday party?
Gather them up to put into a birthday photo book. Just upload them to lifephoto.com — you can set up your own birthday book photo folder there at no cost.
At $6.95 for a 20-page softcover 6″ x 4″ photo book, it’s easy to make one for each child’s birthday. And these books will be a memory that will last forever. Here are some of the options:
- 7 books sizes
- Hardcover or softcover
- 4 paper stock choices
- Lots of birthday backgrounds to use (or not)
- 2-4 photos will easily fit on a page
- Many photo arrangement choices
- Full flexibility for photo placement, captions and text
Fast, Easy and Inexpensive Photo Books for Every Birthday
Get started now and surprise your child. Better yet, send one to Grandma and Grandpa, too.
PHOTO SHARING NOTE: Don’t forget — you can share your birthday photo book and your digital photo album by e-mail, on Facebook, Twitter or a blog.
Tweet this post or share it on Facebook.
A Personal Photo Book Really Says “I Love You”
Planning to ask her to marry you on Valentine’s Day? 
Here’s a terrific idea that shows your love in photos and personal messages as photo captions.
Fast. Easy. Inexpensive. Incredibly Thoughtful.
Simply upload your favorite photos of her that recall all the great times you have shared together. Add some photos of both of you having fun.
Photo Ideas and a Link to the Full Photo Book: continue reading
Valentine Question: Will You Marry Me?
Looking for a special way to ask your sweetheart the big question on Valentine’s Day? Give her (or him) a custom photo day planner that starts with your marriage proposal printed on February 14.
Begin your photo day planner with February 2010
Lifephoto gives you easy options for making a very special day planner: continue reading
ImageWraps Canvas Photo Printing
Create an heirloom portrait in minutes from your digital photo on 
lifephoto.com. Make one for your home or to give as a gift to someone special. Your photo image takes on the look of a fine oil painting and actually wraps around the frame — viewable from the sides as well as the front of the frame. Here are a few ideas for photo subjects:
- Family portrait
- Children
- Grandchildren
- Beloved pet
- Once-in-a-lifetime car or motorcycle — a Harley? muscle car? vintage car?
- Family home or farmstead
- Your flowering garden? (Imagine the blossoms wrapping around the frame!)
- Wedding or engagement photo continue reading
All you need is a digital photo and 5 minutes!
What is a Canvas Photo Print?
It’s a professional quality reproduction of your photo on canvas. After your digital photo is printed on canvas, it is wrapped around a 1-1/2″ thick box frame to make it stand out from the wall.
Your photo actually wraps around each side of the mount giving it an almost 3-D appearance. It’s a stunning way to display a photo you love.
Notice how the flowers in the bouquet wrap around the bottom edge of the photo mount — other parts of the photograph similarly wrap around the other sides, too. continue reading
Halloween parties are the best! Great decorations — unbelievably 
creative costumes — and terrific seasonal colors. All make for a perfect photo opp — that would ultimately evolve into a very clever photo story capturing the event, the people, the ambiance and the fun that everyone had that day.
Plan Your Party Photo Story 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
