How to Better Photograph Your Family Eight Tips for any Skill Level TIP FOUR: WATCH THE BACKGROUND. It seems counter-intuitive, but any successful photograph BEGINS with the background. A bad background can ruin an otherwise amazing photo. Think of how a painter would work on the background first and then, layer by layer, add the protagonists. When filling up your frame (SEE TIP ONE), pick a … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2015
8 Tips to Better Photograph Your Family | Tip Three
How to Better Photograph Your Family Eight Tips for any Skill Level TIP THREE: GET UP. GET DOWN. GET MOVING! When you photograph your family without being intentional about it, most of your photos are taken from the same eye level. While some photos are great taken from that level, if all are taken that way it makes for some pretty boring photos. Here is an example of what most people do: line … [Read more...]
8 Tips to Better Photograph Your Family | Tip Two
How to Better Photograph Your Family Eight Tips for any Skill Level This series was created for the amateur family photographer. These tips are simple, quick things you can do to vastly improve the photos you take. Every family has one person that tends to do all the photographing. Growing up in my family, this was my father. This role is important as the images you capture will become the … [Read more...]
8 Tips to Better Photograph Your Family | Tip One
How to Better Photograph Your Family Eight Tips for any Skill Level This series was created for the amateur family photographer. These tips are simple, quick things you can do to vastly improve the photos you take. Every family has one person that tends to do all the photographing. Growing up in my family, this was my father. This role is important as the images you capture will become the … [Read more...]
Photography Quick Course
I love to teach others about photography! Recently I taught week-long course at Woods Charter School. Below is a video of what the kids and I worked on. We had 12 9 - 14-year-olds who were so much fun to teach. camp from Kristin Prelipp on Vimeo. DAY ONE INSTRUCTION MATERIALS Introduction to Photography Nowadays everybody is a photographer because nearly everyone has a cell phone … [Read more...]
How to Photograph Flowers
Flowers are such a source of inspiration to me. It is in my blood and upbringing as my parents and all siblings but one are absolutely crazy about gardening. They throw around both the common and latin names for plants as if it is nothing. Growing up in chilly Green Bay, WI the growing season was short but my mother made the most of it. In the evening she and my dad would stroll around the yard … [Read more...]
How to Photograph Large Groups
It can be quite daunting to accurately capture a photograph of a large group. By large group I mean more than five and all the way up to several hundred. When I have been asked to do this I always make sure that someone other than myself is coordinating getting everyone to the right place at the appointed time. All the photographer should be thinking about is how the heck they are going to pull … [Read more...]
How to Photomerge
By Kristin Prelipp When I first started photographing seriously in the late 1980’s I was shooting film. I had a 35mm camera and a medium format, twin lens reflex Yashicamat camera. The medium format film was very attractive to me because the print quality from such a large negative was amazing, when compared to little, old 35mm. Also, the larger cameras were so clunky and difficult to use, that … [Read more...]
Photographing Large Families
I come from a large family and I now have a large family. It is lovely chaos and I wouldn't trade it for anything, but large groups of children and adults can be a challenge to photograph. Recently I had the opportunity to photograph a few such groupings. When planning a photo session for a large family there are a few things to consider: What to wear? Which location? What time of the day is best? … [Read more...]