A very LATE Phototography Phriday!!
Hi all, I’m Tracy (aka SnaprebelX), new to the ScrapMatters Creative Team. I can try to make myself feel better by saying that it is still Friday SOMEWHERE. Our internet went out on Tuesday and they had to send us a new modem, which they said would be here today by 5. Well it showed up near 6 and then the studpid new modem wouldn’t connect to the net. ARGH. My husband finally got it to work, so here I am. I hate that my first real assignment was so late. But Im sure you can all understand the woes of internet loss 
I was asked to share some of my photo tips. So here I am, jumpin in with my 2 cents. Im really not that good at writing but I hope you find it helpful and/or interesting J
A photo can be worth a thousand words right? But do they tell the whole story? Sometimes yes, most times no. There are generally so many other things you want to say. Sometimes that can be taken care of in your journaling. But sometimes a good detail shot can say so much. Im a wedding photographer and there are so many details in a wedding. When the night is all said and done, you are going to remember the vows, the fun, the dancing. But are you going to remember the center pieces that you and your bridesmaids spent hours making? Are you going to remember the arsenal of makeup supplies that you used, or the beautiful flowers in your bouquet before they wilted? Those small details are going to slowly disapear, until you you can no longer recall that the edges of the roses were a darker red then the rest of the bud. Things like that deserve to be preserved. I recently gained a new wedding contract because the bride liked all the detail shots that I had in my presentation. She said that the others that she met with had close to none, and that those details were important to her.
The same can be said for your scrapbook pages. Those little things deserve to be remembered and cherished. Because before you know it, those tiny little baby toes are gonna be gone.
Take this page I made about my daughters first snow angels, made with the fabulous “WinterFul” kit available here at ScrapMatters.
It would have been a really cute page without the detail shot of the finished snow angel, but the fact that it IS there adds an extra something to the page. And I actually was not on this trip to flagstaff, my sister in law took the photos and I was so THRILLED to see that she had thought of taking the photo so I could see the result of Shelbys hard work.
So theres my photo tip Close-ups are my favorite kind to take. They ussually do not have any people in it, most of the time its just the object. You can use the macro setting (ussually the icon that looks like a flower) to get a good close-up. Natural light looks best, because your most likely going to be so close that your flash is going to blast it out.
Take shots of the artwork when the artist is done, or or those beautiful easter eggs, get them in all their glory. They really make a great impact!!
I must go cause I feel like I haven’t had the net for years lol, and I have a ton of catching up to do!!! Thanks for listening!!! Sorry if this ends up being Saturday for you!
February 29th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Thanks for reminding us to take photos of the little details in our lives and to remember to scrap them as well. Glad that your internet is back up and running! Great Photography Phriday article.
March 1st, 2008 at 5:58 am
This is a great article ! I’m often so busy taking the kid pics that I forget about those little details.
Thanks so much for the reminder.
March 1st, 2008 at 6:48 am
Cute layout and you make a really really good point! Thanks for the ‘lightbulb moment’! lol
March 1st, 2008 at 9:16 am
great post…glad you are set back up
March 1st, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Thanks for the great advice!