Hello Everyone!

I hope you are all enjoying your photographic days! Every day can be an opportunity to take pictures, it’s just seizing those opportunities that’s the hard part. I know I get so busy with life that I barely take pictures anymore! It’s definitely sad and I can notice a difference in my photos when I haven’t practiced or used my talent. I’ve also noticed a difference in myself, I desperately miss taking pictures, because that’s a part of me that I’m not using! Ever heard that phrase “if you don’t use it, you’ll lose it”… it can happen. So take a lesson from me (and maybe I’ll take this lesson for myself), use your photography skills and don’t let them go to waste! Ok, enough of my rambling and onto what I really wanted to blog about…

As you have probably noticed, there has been a change in the look of my webpage. While that change seems pretty drastic, not much else has changed. So, I’m hoping to alter this a bit more when/if I have some spare time. I’m hoping to add a photo album so that should be pretty neat and make it easier to view my photos. That’s all I’ll give away for now because that’s all I will probably have time to do within the next few weeks.

Again, thanks for reading, and continue learning and taking pictures!

Wow. My apologies to everyone who left any comments, old and new! While trying to manage and delete spam, I somehow deleted all of the legitimate comments that were posted since the beginning of this photography blog! This was a total accident and is quite frustrating because I cannot retrieve them. AH! Please forgive me. Feel free to leave other comments however, I have learned my lesson and will pay closer attention when trying to manage my comments.

One thing every photographer needs to always remember is to cherish their own photography! That may sound a little silly but photographers need to have this view of there photographs. You may be a beginner or an expert, but don’t let others tell you that your work is any less than marvelous. Sure there’s always room for improvement! Don’t get me wrong on that. But each photograph is one step closer to becoming better, there’s always something to learn from when viewing a photo. It can be a photograph of the strangest setting that others may see as ugly, but you should always view any photo you take as something to cherish. So take care of your photos, keep them in safe places, show them to the world, print them out and frame them, etc. Whether you’re a beginner or a professional, do something with your talent and continue to learn and improve!

This blog is going to be under construction over the next few weeks.  I’m hoping to change the look a little bit, possibly add a photos page so that any of my own personal photography can be easier to locate and view, and a few other new things that I’m hoping everyone can enjoy.  I’m really excited about the photo gallery page, and I’m hoping this idea will become reality.  It just makes things a whole lot easier when there’s a page dedicated only to pictures.  The other things should be interesting as well.  So if you’ll bear with me for a little while and be patient, I should hopefully have these new things up soon.

For now, I will leave you with a quote by one of my favorite landscape photographers:

In my mind’s eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice. -Ansel Adams

Boy it has been a VERY long time since I’ve blogged.  Please forgive me!  Now that summer is almost here, it’s got me in the picture taking mood!  I haven’t taken pictures in quite some time, staying busy with life in general and all that jazz.  However, I’ve decided to stay on top of blogging and to make a few tweaks and changes to brittsphotos.com this summer.  What good am I doing by not blogging about photography when I have a whole website dedicated to this awesome art!?

Okay, I’ll admit, I’ve gotten a little discouraged and un-motivated about taking photos lately.  There just doesn’t seem to be any time to take them!  With summer here though, it’s “re-sparked” by creativity.  Summer time is actually a really great time for taking pictures.  There are plenty of opportunities.  Families on vacations, sunny days, green landscapes, sunrises, sunsets, the opportunities are everywhere.  Sure the landscapes or outdoor scenes may not be as dramatic as during the fall or spring, or even the winter when it snows.  But there are people and laughter, activities and children playing, swimming pools and watermelon, clear blue skies and the 4th of July.  This is making me excited!

While I may not think I have the time to take pictures, the opportunities are there this summer.  I just have to seize them!  You can choose to take the opportunities as well.  Bring your camera everywhere, you never know what moment you can capture.

I’ll be dedicating more time to this blog.  So never fear…you will hear from me again soon!

I cannot believe it has been over 6 months since my last blog. Please forgive me!

I have been extremely busy. But I have exciting news!
I am taking a photography class! So I will hopefully be sharing what I learn with you as the class progresses. I have already learned much more than I could have imagined. There is a lot more to photography than I even realized.

In the class I am using film instead of my usual digital photography. I am now torn between which I like better, film or digital. Both are amazing! I am using an SLR (single-lens reflex camera), a used Canon TLB. All it’s settings are manual so everything I’ve been learning is completely new to me.

Here’s something you may want to look into. I will probably go into this in some later blogs but here’s something pretty basic that I’ve learned that might be helpful to you.

The lower your aperture (i.e. f/2.8) the bigger the “hole” which lets in MORE light to capture your photo…you think sometimes it may be the other way around for some reason…but it’s not. Lower aperture=MORE light, higher aperture=less light.

That’s all I can do for now. I’ll try to blog more often. Thanks for reading!

Digital photography is one of my favorite ways to express myself. It’s fun, creative, and it allows me to hold on even longer to memories by stopping a moment in time leaving the empression as a photograph.

I use digital photography because it allows me to use my imagination more if I ever wanted to transform a certain picture into something from a fantasy book. Although I rarely do that because I like to keep my photos as authentic as possible. It’s still fun to tinker with my photos, even if I don’t save them that way.

Another reason why I use digital photography is because I want to share my work with the world. I’m a beginner photographer, so I’m not quite established in knowing everything there is to know about photography. Nowadays though, it’s pretty easy to share things with the world if you have a computer and internet access. So that’s what I do, I share my photographs and ideas on the World Wide Web, as you can see. However, if I used a film camera, I would have to scan my photograph to allow me to put it up on a website. Scanning also doesn’t turn out too well because the photo will usually turn out fuzzy or the colors may be different. Now I’m not arguing that digital photography is better than regular film photography, by all means I love them both and they each have different advantages depending on what you use them for. I personally need to use digital photography. I still use film cameras every once in a while, and someday soon I would love to buy a film SLR (film SLR’s are cheaper than digital SLR’s). For now, though, I like using digital.

I created a short slide show today of a few of my animal photos. It turned out rather well, although it’s kinda plain, but I still like it. That’s also something cool about digital photography, you can make a slideshow/video of the pictures. Like add music in the background or sound effects. It’s pretty sweet. Well, that’s about all I can blog about today because that’s all I’ve done with my photos today. So I shall end this on a short photography quote.

Have a blessed day, and don’t forget your camera wherever you go or whatever you’re doing this day!

One of my favorite ways to take photos of things is from below or tipping my camera to where it faces up a bit more…for me the photos seem to look more majestic and impressive that way. I especially love getting photos where it’s just the subject and the sky. Here, I’ll post some of my photos to show you a few examples of what I mean…

Notice how this photo really captures how huge the trees are! There really wasn’t any other way to take this picture, because I would have lost how awesome the trees are if I’d have taken it any other way.

This one is really cool. Just the building and the sky. It just seems to have add a nice effect and allows the eye to focus on the building rather than anything else that may have been distracting.

That’s just one of my ways to take more creative shots, rather than just a straight forward photo. Instead I try to find the best way to get underneath something or to get more sky, or just change my angle a bit. Here’s an example to show you the difference in a straight on shot, and a more creative angle…

This is the same statue in both pictures…but the second photo just gives a totally different impression for the viewer. It’s a bit more impressive, and gives the photo a cool effect.

Well, I hope you enjoyed them. Have a blessed day!

Ok, so one thing I try to do almost all the time when taking pictures of any kind is that I try to fill the frame. Which means to make sure the subject is in the center of your photograph and has nothing else around it that is too distracting. Also, if by any chance I am unable to fill the frame, I tend to crop my photos in my photo editing program so that there aren’t as many distracting things around the subject I was trying to photograph. Hmm…let’s see if I can give an example photograph. Ah ha, got one…it’s not a great photograph by any means. It’s okay, but not my favorite…but it’ll do great in an example.

As you can see…there is a lot distracting from the horses in this photo. The road, the cars, the fence, etc. So in order to make the photo a little better, I cropped out most of that and in this next photo you can see what I mean. The focus is now on the horses, how it’s meant to be. I filled the frame…well, I used my computer to do that and not my camera, but it still gives the same effect.

So there you have it. A great tip that every photographer should follow .