Welcome to Photography 101! Our first lesson today is on exposure compensation. What the what? Don’t work, it’s much easier than it sounds! First, you need to pull out your DSLR, and find the exposure compensation button. It looks like a plus sign (+) over a minus sign (-). On the Nikon it’s usually up top… On the Canon it’s generally on the back… Find it? If you’re having trouble, pull out your camera booklet. I am seriously excited to talk about [...]
Alright, I know I said I was done with giveaways, but when T-Mobile twists my arm, I am just so flattered that I had to say yes. Plus it’s packed in with some fantabulous information, which is what I’m all about anyway. So first the awesome information I learned when I attended an amazing event put on by my friend Stephanie and T-Mobile last week. People are constantly asking me what phone to buy, which carrier to use, which operating [...]
When my husband and I started our family a few years ago, I took a brief break from photography. Upon returning I was shocked at how much had changed when it came to post processing an image. Suddenly, giving someone images straight out of the camera just didn’t cut it anymore. It was the birth of Photoshop actions. What the what? Actions are shortcuts for photographers. When a photographer uploads an image from their camera, traditionally they will process the [...]
I’ve seen a lot of people reach my page using searches about the Facebook Ticker. Many of whom are unable to see the ticker on their account. The ticker appears to be missing from certain accounts, while it annoys other people’s accounts. I personally don’t mind it. Here’s the official word from Facebook’s Help area…. “Ticker only appears when your network of friends and connections meets a certain threshold of activity.Ticker will appear as you connect to more friends, subscriptions, [...]
Do you have certain folders that you need to access on a regular basis? For me it’s my stock photography folder. As I download or create stock photography, I store it in a specific folder within my pictures folder. This way, when I’m looking for just the right picture of a kid using a cell phone I just have one place to search. When I’m uploading these pictures to my blog and it brings up the little window with all [...]
I love hanging out with my friends, because they always figure out something that I didn’t know that people don’t know. Ya know? I can usually glean about 4-5 posts from any given Girls Night Out, or as we are calling it now “Book Club”. For those that REALLY know me, you know I’m not an avid reader. Joining a “Book Club” is so far from what I would do on a normal occasion. I like books. I mainly read [...]
Now that smartphones are getting smarter and smarter, the amount of things we can accomplish on the road has grown tremendously. As we now use our phones to access our bank accounts, our Facebook page, and any number of other accounts that a malicious person is just itching to get their hands on. Don’t be under the false assumption that malware (aka viruses) only infect PC’s. Really it all depends on the platform the malware creators decide to write the [...]
Thank goodness for my walks with my friend Brittney, and thank goodness for friends and family that have very limited technical knowledge. I’ve said before, that it’s somewhat hard for me to understand what exactly people don’t know, since I just figure people know how to do things that I know how to do. It’s a ridiculous thought, because if my crafty friends thought that I knew how to do the things they know how to do, they would be [...]
Many people are expressing concern about Facebook’s new ticker (some people are affectionately dubbing it the sidebar from hell, but to each his/her own). The concern people have is about privacy. They are concerned that they are seeing what people are posting on other people’s pages that are not their friends, and therefore are concerned what is going on the ticker that people can see from people that post on your own profile. I definitely understand the concern, but really [...]
Facebook has gone and done it again, making everyone mad with changes. Personally, I couldn’t be happier, because I’ve been waiting for the day that this happens. Here’s why… Forever I’ve been wanting to separate my news feed into “people” and “pages”. If I wanted to see updates from pages, I could just look in one specific spot, and if I wanted to see updates from my friends (which was much more often) I would go to that place. NOW [...]
I was out for my regular walk with my friend Brittney when we started discussing Pinterest. She explained that she uses it more to keep track of web bookmarks. I rejoiced at the geniusness of this plan… here is a video tutorial of how to use Pinterest as your bookmarking utility!
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