3 Things : playing with printing + a giveaway

I need to work on taking my camera with me every time I leave the house. I have tried printing pictures on vellum, love the way it looks! Thanks for doing the topic of journaling, that is what gives me the most trouble.

I tend to keep the flash off -- and use natural light, even in the house. My night flash photos are always awful.
Macro mode is another fav. of mine.
Amy

Thanks for all the inspiration. I love your blog!

My suggestion to taking good pictures of your kids would be to take lots of them and outdoor pictures are always nice.
I am loving everything about word + photo!
Thanks,
De Anne

I have a 2 month old and have learned to keep a camera close by at all times. You just never know when the perfect shot will redeem itself. Also, I make my husband pick up the camera now and then. Nothing like the veiw from a guys eye. He has a pretty good one too!
Thanks for all the inspiration!!

My photo tip may sound simplistic, but I find it helps to always have a camera w/me. The odd little things I find along the way or the inspiration to capture part of our everyday life can be recorded.
I have a slim Minolta, couple years old, but small enough to always have in my purse & it takes great pictures.

WOW, lots of inspiration here..Thanks for all the info and also for a chance to win some great goodies from WorldWin..
Brenda

I want to read my camera's manual. I know this will help me take better pics just haven't made the time to do it-spend too much time reading blogs LOL
Thanks for your fab blog, Ali!!!

I want to learn how to take good pics in the waning light of dusk. I have a hard time getting clear pictures if i just turn the flash off, and the pics go totally wack if the flash goes off.. i know that some cameras have a "low light setting" but if it doesn't?
also... a favorite tip of mine..
I carry a teeny comp book (black and white school days thing from Wal Mart)in my purse and when i take a pic of something different, i scribble down my thoughts about it, and date it so that when i'm ready to develop them, or scrap, i remember why i wanted a picture of my children's dirty socks on the porch, and the emotion of it isn't lost. Or in better things like why your honey had tears in his eyes.... Sometimes you take the pic and forget about it, but really you were trying to capture the feelings of the moment, and many times they're fleeting....
Besides who doesn't love having their journaling ready?
Anyway, just a thought..
:)
Thanks for all the inspiration-
Love love love you Ali!

My favorite photo tip is one you just showed us! I love love love the way the photo printed on the vellum turned out! I can't wait to try that myself!
Thanks so much for all the inspiration you give us Ali!

great topic on your blog this week, look forward to reading it every morning.
Rachelle B.

I made a little felt book for my 2yr old nephew of numbers and on the front cover I printed a picture of the two of us on fabric and with text that said I love you as many hearts as you can count and more and more. See pictures below. Cant wait to try out some of the printable vellum, etc.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=41097&l=e0de8&id=728906040

such great ideas here! thanks for the opp and the inspiration
my (very amateur) tips:
~ hand off the camera to someone else, then photograph them as they shoot
~ photograph objects outside - the light is much better
~ use the macro function on your camera when shooting up close - it makes a world of difference

I don't have any photo tips! I have used your tip to not use flash, but I have a Canon P&S and it often leaves me with very dark photos. So I'm still working on that!
Would love to get some of that vellum paper to try out!

My favorite tips...
"Over shoot". I took 1,500 plus photos during 17 days on a mission trip to Brazil. I've gone through and narrowed it to 900. My photography professor would say, "Narrow it again, until you have at least 10 percent of the original photos".
Basically...1,500 to 150. These will be your best of the best....
Use a variety of composition tools.
Always carry your camera.
Back up, back up, back up....
Charge those batteries.
Have "back up" batteries in your bag.
Have a camera bag you can use. I invested $150/200 into a professional camera bag when I worked for the newspaper. It's my best purchase, outside of my digi camera. Everything is protected in my bag...and it's big enough, everything I need is in it.

Love that you share all of this wonderful stuff with us. I would love to learn to use the manual setting on my Digi Rebel--well, learn how to correctly use them. LOL

I want to work on taking pictures with my kids doing something besides looking at the camera!
Love your blog!

Like you said . . . journaling can be a short note with a few words here and there or it could be a length story to capture. I try to keep in mind when I do layouts which pictures says it all in a few words and which has a story to tell. Thanks for your ideas!

My super simple tip - take LOTS of photos! I take way, way more than I ever think I'll want or need. (Yay for digital.) This guarantees that I'll end up with at least a couple of good ones and, if I'm lucky, a couple of stunningly great ones - and it's so much easier for me to scrap with good photos!

I'll have to ask my sister what photo fabric she uses. She has used I don't know how many packages for quilting/making crafts/etc.
My fav. photo tip -- When I'm doing a "photo shoot" with my kids to try and get some good portrait pictures, I sing the blues. tehehe. . .odd, but it works. There's something about that bluesy rhythm and the fact that I can make up lyrics as I go along that just produces some amazing smiles with my kids.

I would love to learn how to use different lenses on my rebel XTi
Willemijn

thanks for doing this week's blog's entries...I always enjoy reading your tips! My favorite photo tip is to frame your shot and take a few steps forward. I like close up shots most of the time.
Thanks, Ali!
Amy in CA

I want to go digital and learn Photoshop.

My best photo tip is leave that flash off! Learn to take the type of photos you want without it.

I love this new series of yours! It's really helping me to branch out. As to photos, one of the newest things I have playing with is to print my black and white photos directly on textured cardstock to give it a grainy feel. I like how you printed a photo on vellum. This something I will definately have to try next!