Posts Tagged ‘digital photos’
How to Arrange Photos in a Vacation Photo Book
You might be surprised at the options Lifephoto offers you in arranging your photos. 
If you’re planning a photo book highlighting your Mom’s favorite vacation spots — as a very unique Mother’s Day gift, here are some page layout ideas to get you started. You could make the entire book about one destination, or group the pages and include as many destinations as you want. Notice I’ve varied the backgrounds with Lifephoto’s stock colored backgrounds, plain background and a wine cask photo of my own which I faded into the background. Lots of options. Get started on your Mom’s photo book for a special Mother’s Day Gift! See all the page layout samples below: continue reading
6 Ideas for Creative Photo Book Covers for Mother’s Day Gifts
You say you’re really not creative? No problem. Making a photo book for Mom is easy and fun. Lifephoto’s site guides you along step by step. It gives you options for arranging photos, adding captions and text. It will even auto-fill your book with your photos — yet allowing you the ability to change them later.
The Cover Sets the Stage for Your Book
Mother's Day Flower Garden Photo Book with single image on front and deep green textured background front and back.
Let’s look at the cover possibilities for a Mother’s Day Photo Book about her floral garden: continue reading
Taking Photos of Wild Game and Other Woodland Critters Outside Your Window
We live on a pond with a marshy woodland shore right out our window. 
I was curious as to who came to visit us when we weren’t looking. Went to Bass Pro and bought a stealth camera — ideal for the sneaky photography I wanted to do — kind of like a “nanny cam” for the outdoors. For under $100, it’s proving to be a fun purchase.
Occasionally we see critters fishing, diving and swimming. Birds, ducks, geese, herons, raccoons, coyotes, woodchucks, turtles and who-knows-what after dark. I’ve captured some daytime photos out my window, but was curious about who showed up at dusk, at night and when we’re not looking out during the day. So I purchased a Wildgame Digital Game Scouting Camera. Here are the first pix we’ve taken off of it: continue reading
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
Rule of Thirds guides you toward capturing the best photo
It’s not my rule, but I’ve heard it a hundred times since I first picked up a camera. If you haven’t heard about using this rule to capture the “true essence” of the photo, you can find out more from digital photography pro, Darren Rowse. I was looking through his blog, Digital Photography School, and ran across this post which I’d like to share with you. Just might help you snap better pictures!
Perhaps the most well know principle of photographic composition is the ‘Rule of Thirds‘.
The “Rule of Thirds” one of the first things that budding digital photographers learn about in classes on photography and rightly so as it is the basis for well balanced and interesting shots.
I will say right up front however that rules are meant to be broken and ignoring this one doesn’t mean your images are necessarily unbalanced or uninteresting. However a wise person once told me that if you intend to break a rule you should always learn it first to make sure your breaking of it is all the more effective!
What is the Rule of Thirds?
The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both horizontally and vertically) so that you have 9 parts. As follows.
Enjoy–and learn from– the mystery, promise and past conveyed in Katherine Westerhout’s urban photos
As I was checking my inbound tweets, 
I saw one about how truly amazing this woman’s photos are. Checked it out and totally agree. That’s why I’m sharing Katherine Westerhout’s gallery and perspective with you.
Study her use of light, how she frames her subjects and what you think makes each photo so special. Then try to apply those ideas to your own photos. Good artists study the great masters and learn from them; as amateur photographers, we can study the work of people like Ms. Westerhout and learn from her.
See what you think about her philosphy and her photos. Then send me a Tweet or Facebook comment to share your thoughts. Let’s share this photo find with more people!
Artist’s Statement — Katherine Westerhout
Closely related to the language of dreams, photography reveals reflections that informmy life. Through them I seek a richer view of the literal world, in a place of the moment, seen in expanded dimensions. Within abandoned buildings, I meet a vision of the psyche. An echo punctuates human absence; carried on the light is a harbinger…These buildings are full of mystery and promise, and the longer one lingers, the more embraced one feels by a presence beyond the prosaic, in a sweeping realm, conjoined and familiar.
About the Work
These photographs are a selection from an ongoing series of urban landscapes that focus on interior spaces of abandoned buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond; in 2003, the work included temple sites in South East Asia, and has now moved into other areas of this country, as I continue to photograph the abandoned cityscape of America.
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.
Professional Photo Book of Samples — Easy to Make and Share.
In the last post, I introduced you to the concept of using a quality online photo sharing source for creating your own professional art 
portfolio. This is a very high quality bound book that you can share with art patrons and potential clients through several vehicles: 1) The printed book itself. 2) E-mail. 3) Social media posts like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others.
Lifephoto prints your sample book in its professional photo lab — you get archival quality paper, satin cover linings, parchment pages and pro quality printing. Plus — and only on Lifephoto — can you get a link to share your complete art portfolio via e-mail or social media. Read more about this in my last post.
Get Started on Your Portfolio
Here is a step-by-step guide to formatting your photo portfolio, a link to the sculptor’s portfolio previewer and tips for using the book and previewer to market your art work more effectively. continue reading
