3 Things : playing with printing + a giveaway

I want to work on being more organized with my photos. Right now they are in folder broken down by date...not the most efficient method when I want to find something later. Thanks for the chance at the giveaway!

the most common advice is perhaps one must always print out photos - it's one way to preserve your memories. i've heard too many horror stories of losing precious photos because computers have crashed or caught a virus.
i have yet to learn to take really good photos...
thanks, Ali!

Love the reminder to be RUTHLESS with deleting photos. I try to be good about this but am inspired to delete down to the best three photos of a series.

Best photo tip:
Take tons and tons of pics and expect one or two of an event to be acceptable.
Get some Actions -- as they save lots and lots of time.
Dana

Love the vellum idea.Emily

i want to do the whoIe printing on fabric thing but you are making me nervous about AIi!! HA! HA! :)

My favorite photo tip is to take extra pictures--from different angles, w/ or w/o flash, zoom in, zoom out, just experiment. It really helps me change perspective, and see things in a new way when I actively experiment.
But it is definitely key to be "ruthless" with dicarding the excess photos, and I love your rule, or guideline, of not needing more than 5 and usually less than three!

Hi Ali,
I often use my printer to color copy patterned paper or fabric to include on my pages and as the envelope liner for a card.
Would love to win, but especially love your blog!
Thanks,
Wendy

My best photo tip, since Ali already mentioned not using the flash, is to fill the lens with your subject. Get up close and click away!!!

I'm just figuring out how to use my camera so my shots aren't either orange and/or blurry, so I'm probably not the best person to offer tips - any great shots that I've gotten have likely been by fluke!

What I want to work on as a photographer is taking better photos of people. It sounds simple - but my candids of people all look the same. I know I should take multiple photos in the same setting, but at a party for instance - how can I get the shots I want without looking like the crazy person with a camera?

Taking photos is part of my everyday, but I don't have a professional camera, so I take my pictures the best I can, but since I discovered Lightroom my photos are so much better than ever! It's so easy to use and you always have professional results with simple photos, I think is one of my favorites tools right now.

Best photo tip...be ready and take lots of photos! With a 4 and 1 year old I get lots of blurry ones so I take a ton to get a few good ones!

My photo tip is... practice and then practice some more. I am trying to learn photoshop... Thanks for the inspiration.

A couple of tips (not original but...)
1. Really get to know your camera and it's options. I took a 'know your camera' course and it really opened up a whole new world.
2. Take lots lots of photos
What I would like to do is capture more of the 'moments in time' that happen and then are suddenly gone - i.e. building a cushion fort, kids cartwheeling, etc.

My photo tip is get closer and squat. I take lots of pictures of my son who's 3 years old and 3 feet tall so I try to get down on his level and get close ups so he's not drowning in the background.

Awesome site. Great giveaway.

My favorite (and only) photo tip is to turn off your flash.
My dad just told me a story today that I'm going to have to turn into a scrapbook page. Thanks so much for all the tips and inspiration.

Thank you for sharing all of this information this week. It is inspiring,as well as informational. Color me grateful!

I love the paper you are offering as a giveaway. Thank you for everything you do.
Julie

My favorite tip is trying different angles when taking pictures. Go high of low.
Thanks for your inspiration, Ali.
Mary M.

My photo tip is every now and again print some photos in black and white. Love yor work Ali.

I want to work on getting more spontaneous shots of my kids. I want to capture real emotion. My tip - pay attention to the whole frame of the photo. You don't need to crop things out if they are not in there in the first place.

I use a disposable camera. But I get my photos on a cd. I want to learn some different things I can do with these.

I'd like to work on being invisible as I take photos. I have way too many photos of people smiling into the camera. I want to capture the natural activities and not the forced "smile for the camera" poses. I guess I need to train my family to ignore me and my camera! Thanks for the terrific inspiration.