It would be nice sometimes to have a delete key for our mouth. Think about it, you say something really dumb you can just press delete and no one will ever know you said it. Please remember to think quick and speak slow.

Manual: page 81 “Manual Focus”

Inspiration: Clark + Walker Studio

Part of Tasra’s Photo Twitter Tuesday

Most of the time when I start playing with strobes Lacy goes and hides. But today she was laying next to one of our chairs so I decided to us it as a background.

This shot is straight out of camera. All I did was a little cropping.

Manual: page 80 “Getting good Results with Autofocus”

Inspiration: Monica and Michael Sweet

Jamie spotted a butterfly on our neighbor’s coneflowers as we pulled into the driveway. I grabbed my camera and walked next door to photograph a little lawn wildlife.

Manual: page 78 “Focus Lock”

Inspiration: Michael Schwarz

It always fun to have a family game night, Sorry I have to go, it’s my turn.

Manual: page 76 “Focus Point Selection”

Inspiration: Zack Arias on Creative Live

Are you the type of person that dives in anyway? When it comes to running a  business I hope you dive in and make it happen.

Manual: page 74 “AF-Area Mode”

Inspiration: Megan Dougherty

Sometimes you just have to have fun with frames. We have these empty frames at the house the needed something in them, so I decided to us the kids. It also lets us see where we could hang them on the wall.

Manual: page 72 “Focus Mode”

Inspiration: Scott Robert Lim

Today is Jamie’s birthday. We have day lilies in our flower garden that do not bloom until her birthday, this year was no different. Earlier this week I posted a photograph of  my beautiful wife and best friend, just in case you missed it.  Happy Birthday Jamie and thank you for being my wife.

Manual: page 71 “Focus”

Inspiration: Jim Cornfield

Look kids, this is what we had to use before cell phones.

Manual: page 69 “Image Size”

Inspiration: Neil Van Niekerk

There are peaches on our peach tree! Because we live in Atlanta and there are 71 streets in Atlanta with some variant of “Peachtree” in their name, I think it’s only fitting that we have a peach tree in the yard.

Manual: page 68 “Image Quality: The NEF (RAW) Compression Menu”

Inspiration: Anne Ruthmann

I wanted to see if I could make an origami camera out of a dollar bill. After searching online I found a set of instruction of how. This is how my first attempt turned out.

Manual: page 67 “Image Quality: The JPEG Compression Menu”

Inspiration: Kevin Jiminez