Black-Eyed Susan [pair of 6x6]
Daisy [pair of 6x6]
Climbing Rose [pair of 6x6]
B&W Sunflowers [pair of 8x10s]
Sunflowers [pair of 8x10s]
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Showing posts with label FF. Show all posts
Thursday, July 16, 2009
A 'pair' Giveaway!
It's been a while since a giveaway! Leave a comment and a pair of you (two winners) will choose one of the following pairs of pics. I will draw names Monday at noon.
Black-Eyed Susan [pair of 6x6]
Daisy [pair of 6x6]
Climbing Rose [pair of 6x6]
B&W Sunflowers [pair of 8x10s]
Sunflowers [pair of 8x10s]
Black-Eyed Susan [pair of 6x6]
Daisy [pair of 6x6]
Climbing Rose [pair of 6x6]
B&W Sunflowers [pair of 8x10s]
Sunflowers [pair of 8x10s]
Friday, February 27, 2009
Friday Fun. Making Your Pictures Larger-Kim's Way
One of the questions I get asked the most about photography relating to my blog is, How do you make your pictures bigger? I attempted once to explain in a not so well written tutorial, but hopefully this time I can do a better job.
Going from this:
To this...My way.
The first way and probably easiest is to upload your image (at the size you want it to appear on your blog) to a third party host like photobucket.com. Then you just cut and paste the picture's url in your post and viola! There it is. Here is a great tutorial on how to do it this way: click here.
I wanted to have total control over my pictures, so I went searching for another alternative and searching I did. I found a few tutorials online changing the html code, but none worked for me, so I adapted and took parts from each. This is what I have found works for me.
Note: if you are making your pictures bigger on your blog you may need to adjust the width of your blog template, by editing the html of the template. The above tutorial shows you how to do that.
Here is how I post my images large on my blog:
1) Start by resizing your picture to the size you want it (probably somewhere between 400-500 pxls). (note: you should always be resizing your pics on your blog even if your wanting them the regular blogger size as to not take up too much space. I learned this the hard way!)
2) Upload this resized picture as you normally would do.
3) When I upload a picture it doesn't show a picture, it shows the html code for that picture. If yours shows the picture you need to click on the button to view the code. It should look something like this:
4) Delete the highlighted code.
Should now look like this:
6) Save. And preview, you should see your picture the size you want it! Now publish! If you publish it and the picture runs into your columns that means you'll need to change the margins on your blog template (see tutorial link above).
Yipee!! You did it! I hope to see some larger pictures out there now!
Good luck! Please let me know if this was helpful.
Have a fabulous weekend!
Going from this:
To this...My way.
The first way and probably easiest is to upload your image (at the size you want it to appear on your blog) to a third party host like photobucket.com. Then you just cut and paste the picture's url in your post and viola! There it is. Here is a great tutorial on how to do it this way: click here.
I wanted to have total control over my pictures, so I went searching for another alternative and searching I did. I found a few tutorials online changing the html code, but none worked for me, so I adapted and took parts from each. This is what I have found works for me.
Note: if you are making your pictures bigger on your blog you may need to adjust the width of your blog template, by editing the html of the template. The above tutorial shows you how to do that.
Here is how I post my images large on my blog:
1) Start by resizing your picture to the size you want it (probably somewhere between 400-500 pxls). (note: you should always be resizing your pics on your blog even if your wanting them the regular blogger size as to not take up too much space. I learned this the hard way!)
2) Upload this resized picture as you normally would do.
3) When I upload a picture it doesn't show a picture, it shows the html code for that picture. If yours shows the picture you need to click on the button to view the code. It should look something like this:
4) Delete the highlighted code.
Should now look like this:
6) Save. And preview, you should see your picture the size you want it! Now publish! If you publish it and the picture runs into your columns that means you'll need to change the margins on your blog template (see tutorial link above).
Yipee!! You did it! I hope to see some larger pictures out there now!
Good luck! Please let me know if this was helpful.
Have a fabulous weekend!
Friday, May 09, 2008
Friday Fun
I have been obsessed with how people add texture to pictures lately. I love the artistic flare it adds. I have had some fun playing around.
This first picture deserved an original. I was in love with this orange Hibiscus the moment I saw it.
Grace ten days old.
Happy Friday!
p.s. My sis-in-law Tami made Grace's cute baby announcement; can be seen here.
This first picture deserved an original. I was in love with this orange Hibiscus the moment I saw it.
Grace ten days old.
Happy Friday!
p.s. My sis-in-law Tami made Grace's cute baby announcement; can be seen here.
Friday, February 01, 2008
Friday Fun
Playing around with filters.....go photograph someone you love!
Happy Friday & February, have a great weekend!
Friday, January 25, 2008
Friday Fun
Several people have asked about aperture and lenses. I will attempt in my less than expertise words to explain this. Basically the aperture is the amount of light that is let in, the lower the f-stop (or aperture) the more light will get let in. Here is a diagram to help explain:
An aperture is a hole or an opening through which light is admitted. The lens aperture is usually specified as an f-number, the ratio of focal length to effective aperture diameter. A lens typically has a set of marked "f-stops" that the f-number can be set to. A lower f-number denotes a greater aperture opening which allows more light to reach the film or image sensor.(-wikipedia)
Since I prefer natural light, when choosing what lenses to purchase I am interested in those with low apertures...to take full advantage of light. Another question I get is what lenses I use most or have. My 50mm f/1.8, 60mm f/2.8 macro and my newest addition 17-55mm f/2.8 all work well with letting in abundant light. My 18-200mm f/3.5 zoom is a great lens, but doesn't work as well in low light as the mentioned others. If I had to choose a favorite lens right now, it would be my latest addition....for the time being.
With this said it's only one part of equation...there is also other settings to play around with in conjunction with aperture to get the effect you want in a picture. Mostly I am happy when more light is let in, I can take pictures inside without the flash as to have a more natural feel and outside take advantage of the light throughout the day.
OK, it's getting way to serious and I don't even know if I know what I'm talking about....so let's have some fun...and here's to keeping it real!
I just had to share this photo. Grant has been such a trooper and has accompanied me on many a photo shoot and has a tendency to sometimes get bored or jealous of me taking pictures of other people. (I wonder why when he has the lens on him almost 24-7?) Here is a perfect example. Every time I went to try and take a picture of these two sisters...Grant had to join in. I got several of them all together smiling....and this is the result I got when I asked him to move out of the shot so I could just get the two girls. Doesn't his expression say it all!
Have a great weekend, doing anything fun?
An aperture is a hole or an opening through which light is admitted. The lens aperture is usually specified as an f-number, the ratio of focal length to effective aperture diameter. A lens typically has a set of marked "f-stops" that the f-number can be set to. A lower f-number denotes a greater aperture opening which allows more light to reach the film or image sensor.(-wikipedia)
Since I prefer natural light, when choosing what lenses to purchase I am interested in those with low apertures...to take full advantage of light. Another question I get is what lenses I use most or have. My 50mm f/1.8, 60mm f/2.8 macro and my newest addition 17-55mm f/2.8 all work well with letting in abundant light. My 18-200mm f/3.5 zoom is a great lens, but doesn't work as well in low light as the mentioned others. If I had to choose a favorite lens right now, it would be my latest addition....for the time being.
With this said it's only one part of equation...there is also other settings to play around with in conjunction with aperture to get the effect you want in a picture. Mostly I am happy when more light is let in, I can take pictures inside without the flash as to have a more natural feel and outside take advantage of the light throughout the day.
OK, it's getting way to serious and I don't even know if I know what I'm talking about....so let's have some fun...and here's to keeping it real!
I just had to share this photo. Grant has been such a trooper and has accompanied me on many a photo shoot and has a tendency to sometimes get bored or jealous of me taking pictures of other people. (I wonder why when he has the lens on him almost 24-7?) Here is a perfect example. Every time I went to try and take a picture of these two sisters...Grant had to join in. I got several of them all together smiling....and this is the result I got when I asked him to move out of the shot so I could just get the two girls. Doesn't his expression say it all!
Have a great weekend, doing anything fun?
Friday, January 11, 2008
Friday Fun - Fifteen Others....(last of 2007)
...and one of my favorite Friday Funs:
I think that nesting has fully kicked in. My desire and attempt to organize is full throttle. We have furniture arriving this week and rearranging is being done. Yesterday I was discussing with a friend how to make your blog into a book through blurb (please will someone let me know if you've successfully done this!) Anyway, that lead me to spend way too much time trying to figure it out and looking through pics of 2007 again and putting them nicely into categorized folders. Here are some other faves I picked that are not of my boy! I chose ones I liked or particularly remembered and a few that were fun from some of my photo shoots.
I promise, that's it...no more yesteryear....only looking forward to 2008!
Have a great weekend!
Friday, January 04, 2008
Friday Fun
Last year at the new year I posted my top ten favorite pictures I had taken that year. I was hoping to do the same this year and if time allows I may work on it this weekend. The challenge: Pick your top 10 photos from the past year; give them a title of 5 words or less. What I love about this is I can choose what pics tug at my heart, bring up a memory or just ones I liked. Your opinion may differ. What pictures of yours would you choose, I'd like to see!
Friday, December 14, 2007
Friday Fun...which one?
As I was looking at a blog the other day I was reminded and realized I have ignored as of late some cool actions I have. So, I played around with some once again. Which one do you like?
Have a wonderful winter weekend!
Friday, December 07, 2007
Friday Fun
With the holiday season sitting right on top of me, this is all my creative juices could muster up! Still working on editing some photos from the other day and was thinking about location.
It's always fun finding new places to take pictures. I have been to this trail countless times before with my friend to run or walk and last weekend we took Grant there to ride his bike. We came to the end where there's this large open field, not particularly pretty or stunning...but I stopped, had Mark stand for me to check the lighting and thought it may be fun to try some pictures! It worked well with these kids (just a couple more from the other day):
What new places have you found? You never know, it could be your backyard or a place you've walked a thousands times! Or it may be a completely new place...go ahead try some pictures!
Have a GREAT weekend!!
Friday, November 30, 2007
Friday Fun
"It's Friday!"
Some people have asked how I got my pictures bigger. I will ATTEMPT to answer the question, but as I am clearly NOT a computer savvy gal...it may not be of any help.
I had wondered that same thing many moons ago lurking on other photographers blogs (even emailed a couple to ask how they did it, never got a response),so when my fabulous photog friend, Leah made her pictures bigger I again sent off an email to inquire. So, credit goes to Leah, she gave me a few helpful hints and the rest was trial and error....so take the following information knowing I'm giving it my best shot of explaining!
After I edit my photos I downsize my pics (as I always do, a lesson learned this year when I used up my blog space because I was loading my pictures in full format....dumb!). After I have resized them I go to my online photo host of choice, which happens to be Photobucket and upload them there. I then copy the html code from there to my blog (the part where you go and upload a picture) under "or add an image from the web", then click upload image. Voila! Now for me this was tricky, whatever code it uploaded I had to erase part to get the picture to look how I wanted to, I don't know if you'd have this same problem?
Now, since the pictures will obviously be bigger I had to go into the html format of my blog template and change the pixels so they would fit and not look funky. This I spent a lot of trial and error on....but found this article that was helpful and ended up using these settings. I imagine this may not work for those of you who have three columns? I also deleted some code to get ride of the border that surrounded uploaded images, as to just have my picture.
Clear as mud? If I was computer savvy I would know how to put little pictures and walk you through this process....but computers are not my forte. Email me if you have a question. Have a great weekend!
p.s. A blog I frequent had a great photography Q&A post the other day, definitely worth reading (make sure and read the last paragraph!)
Some people have asked how I got my pictures bigger. I will ATTEMPT to answer the question, but as I am clearly NOT a computer savvy gal...it may not be of any help.
I had wondered that same thing many moons ago lurking on other photographers blogs (even emailed a couple to ask how they did it, never got a response),so when my fabulous photog friend, Leah made her pictures bigger I again sent off an email to inquire. So, credit goes to Leah, she gave me a few helpful hints and the rest was trial and error....so take the following information knowing I'm giving it my best shot of explaining!
After I edit my photos I downsize my pics (as I always do, a lesson learned this year when I used up my blog space because I was loading my pictures in full format....dumb!). After I have resized them I go to my online photo host of choice, which happens to be Photobucket and upload them there. I then copy the html code from there to my blog (the part where you go and upload a picture) under "or add an image from the web", then click upload image. Voila! Now for me this was tricky, whatever code it uploaded I had to erase part to get the picture to look how I wanted to, I don't know if you'd have this same problem?
Now, since the pictures will obviously be bigger I had to go into the html format of my blog template and change the pixels so they would fit and not look funky. This I spent a lot of trial and error on....but found this article that was helpful and ended up using these settings. I imagine this may not work for those of you who have three columns? I also deleted some code to get ride of the border that surrounded uploaded images, as to just have my picture.
Clear as mud? If I was computer savvy I would know how to put little pictures and walk you through this process....but computers are not my forte. Email me if you have a question. Have a great weekend!
p.s. A blog I frequent had a great photography Q&A post the other day, definitely worth reading (make sure and read the last paragraph!)
Friday, November 16, 2007
Friday Fun
As I was trying to simplify my blog yesterday I perused my photo blogs of note and as I always do, stared in awe of the simple beauty these photographers catch. The photos that take my breath away are the simple ones. Simple in subject, expression and composition....as if these photographers were flies on the walls with super telephoto lenses capturing moments that are truly raw. This is my Friday Fun tip, to get out and try to capture something simple.
Often I just watch Grant through the lens (he's so used to it by now I'm sure he thinks it's just part of my face) and wait...until he's not looking, or when he looks up at me at that moment of wanting to tell me something or answer a question I might have asked....I think those are the moments that have made it....real.
Here are a few photos that never made it to a post, but I felt were simple in some way. Maybe they touch me, because of who they capture...
Have a simply wonderful weekend!
Often I just watch Grant through the lens (he's so used to it by now I'm sure he thinks it's just part of my face) and wait...until he's not looking, or when he looks up at me at that moment of wanting to tell me something or answer a question I might have asked....I think those are the moments that have made it....real.
Here are a few photos that never made it to a post, but I felt were simple in some way. Maybe they touch me, because of who they capture...
Have a simply wonderful weekend!
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