baby photography
Free wheeling © Tim Pannell Photography
Registration for the 8 week class is now closed and registration for the new 4 week workshop begins right now.
If you have a digital camera and want to take better photographs of your kids, but aren’t sure how to set up your camera settings or what lenses to use, or what f-stop and shutter speed combinations to use, then this is a great workshop for you.
Enjoy learning at your own pace with the weekly lesson modules. Every week brings new lessons with new tasks or assignments to help teach you the ins and outs of taking better photographs of your children.
You’ll learn how to make your subject really stand out from your background. I’ll teach you how to find better backgrounds. Learn about props, wardrobe and how to choose colors.
Learn how to use available light to your best advantage.
More than anything, this workshop is designed to be fun and informative. Take advantage early and sign up now. The cost for the 4 week workshop is only $150.
Week #1 – Introduction to Photography
* A Day In Our Life
* Techno Geek vs. Creative Freak
* Equipment – Basic Camera Settings
* Go Out and Play – (1st assignment)
Week #2 – Exposure Control
* Shooting Modes
* Histograms – (Polaroid was so over-rated)
* ISO
* Picking an Aperture
* Depth of Field
* Shooting Action
* Aperture vs. Shutter Speed – (2nd assignment)
Week #3 – The Art of Seeing
* Lens Choice
* Viewpoint
* Rule of Thirds
* Cropping
* Background options
* Developing Your Creativity – (3rd assignment)
Week #4 – Storyboard
* A Week in Your Children’s Lives
* Using available light
* Props, wardrobe and colors
* Shoot, shoot and shoot some more
* Edit, edit and edit some more – Use the Hatchet, be tough!
* Unleash the Creative Beast! – (4th assignment)
The 4 week photo workshop begins November 9th, just in time to get you ready to take great shots of your kids during the holidays.
Registration gets you access to the Photo Mommies Forum where you will get lots of positive feedback from fellow Photo Mommies as well as myself.
So go ahead and take advantage of this great opportunity and register today, just follow this link: Photo Mommies Workshop Registration
I’ll see you in the forum!
Trick or Treat © Tim Pannell Photography
I love taking Halloween photos of kids. There’s nothing cuter than a little bitty kid in a totally killer costume.
Halloween is my favorite holiday. I’m not really sure why. Maybe it’s because that’s about the time we start getting amazing weather here in Arizona.
I love the crispness in the air, the colors, the costumes, the candy. I love it all.
© Tim Pannell Photography
There are so many great opportunities to take great pictures too. From carving the pumpkins and making cookies, to the obvious cute costumes and trick or treating.
You can use available light outdoors and get all kinds of great looking light. If you’re outside early enough, try doing some back-lighting. All these images were done just with available light.
No reflectors, no strobes, no nothing. Just work on understanding where your light is coming from and do your best to get some nice highlights on your heroes.
Carving © Tim Pannell Photography
The other really nice thing about Halloween is that the kids are so excited about what’s going on that they don’t get too wrapped up in the camera being around.
© Tim Pannell Photography
They eventually stop paying attention to you and start getting wrapped up in whatever it is they’re doing. Usually, that’s the best stuff.
Just keep it simple. Use a fairly open f-stop to blow out your backgrounds and don’t get too crazy with the props.
Be sure to check out the Photo Mommies Online Photography Workshop that starts on October 21st and register before it gets filled up.
