1. Welcome BlogHers & Photographers! Lotus Rachel Mishelle Mishelle

2. Learn how to take better pictures…

3. …with your DSLR…

4. …or your Point and Shoot!

5. We Are Story Tellers

6. We Are Modern Day Pictographers

7. Through Blogging and Photography We Tell Our Stories

8. Composition Is Essential

9. The Rule of Thirds

10. The Rule of Thirds

11. The Rule of Thirds

12. Look for Lines in Life

13. Pay Attention to Lines

14. They can be obvious…

15. They can be subtle...

16. They lead the eye to another point…

18. Framing

19. Symmetry

20. Rule of Odds……..and

21. Dutch Angles (aka Tilt)

22. How to fix bothersome tilt:

24. Avoid sleeping babies in boxes; it’s morbid

25. Keep the babies/kids off the tracks; be safe

26. Watch your backgrounds; avoid showing mess

27. Don’t over edit; you CAN go to farInstead, learn how to take good pictures…

28. Improve Your Technique with Skill

29. ISO is the way the camera reacts to the amount of available light.

30. Smooth at ISO 100

31. Grainy at ISO 1600

32. Shutter Speed is the duration of time at which the shutter opens up and closes during an exposure process.

33. Capture Action with Fast Shutter Speed

34. Show Motion Through Blur…

35. Slow Shutter Speed

36. Slow Shutter Speed

37. Aperture is measured in f-stops, and is the size of the opening in the lens when a picture is taken.

38. Aperture: Shallow Depth of Field

39. Aperture: Wide Depth of Field

40. Exposure is the process of capturing light with your camera to produce an image on film or a digital sensor.

41. Achieving Proper Exposure Overexposed by +1.5 Underexposed by +1.5

42. The focal length of a lens determines its angle of view, and thus also how much the subject will be magnified for a given position.

43. Different Focal Lengths

44. Focal Lengths

45. Love the Light Front Light

46. Look for the Light Back Light

47. You Can Find The Light Side Light

48. Sometimes You Must Add Light Flash Modified Light

50. Create Bokeh Magic

51. Have a Macro Addiction

52. Look for Reflections; They’re Everywhere

53. Have fun with Shadows

54. Flare it Up

55. Experiment with Angles

57. Do the” Selfy Pee” Dance

58. Photograph the Photographer

59. All the Lovely Bokeh

60. Macro Fun!

61. Reflections and Shadow Play

62. Exude Flair with Flare

63. Take Your Camera Everywhere

64. Shoot High and Low

65. Lensbaby and More

66. The Best Camera? Is the one you have on you!

67. Now it’s your turn….. Any Questions?