this is how i shoot

Posted on | February 18, 2010 | 3 Comments

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I don’t know about you, but I love to look at other people’s crafting rooms and how they take photos of their creations. I’m still a total amateur photographer who likes to shoot in Auto mode. But, Lisa Spangler‘s recent blog post (Tutorial: Photo backgrounds for crafty projects!) made me wanna share how I do mine. I still have sooo much to learn and improve my photo skill!

Above photo is my main crafting area.

I use my husband’s camera, Canon EOS 30D with EFS 17-55mm lense. Normally, I take my photos at night. For tutorials, I just turn two desk lamps. And to take the final project, I turn my flash on (Canon Speedlite 430EX. Yeah, camera is my hubby’s but the flash is mine =). I know everybody tells you to turn the flash off, but I like it on. I don’t like the built-in flash light as I can’t control the direction.

Last year, I made my husband install this cork bulletin board right in front of my desk. I wanted to use it to put stuff like sketch or note for me to reference to while I craft. He does a lot of handy man work for me not because he values my crafting skill, but because I complain about his parents. Bigger the complain, bigger the return. Poor guy~ heehee. He would still do things for me regardless of my complaints, but things just get done faster if I let him know how wonderful his wife is who would put up with his parents. Yeah…

I used to cover up the wall to shoot projects, but I got to like the corky background look on the photo.

If I don’t feel lazy, I put patterned papers on the bottom.

I made this panda and friends cake last summer.

Sometimes I like the plain white surface even when I don’t feel lazy.

I made this cash envelope clutch for theHybridChick blog tutorial. It’s little bit different from the IOU clutch that I made last month.

Almost always I edit my photos on Adobe Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS3.

Few places I learn about photography.
Sideoats + Scribbles
Pioneer Woman
Clickin’ Moms <– I just joined this community to improve my photo skill. So far so good. If you’d like to join too, here’s a 10% off coupon code: FRIEND

THANK YOU~~~

Category: 3-D, Craft Room, Photography
Tags: Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs > The Hybrid Chick

Comments

3 Responses to “this is how i shoot”

Lisa (sideoats + scribbles)
February 19th, 2010 @ 11:06 AM

Those are great photos! Love the sweet cake, too, yummy! And the cork is fun — do you ever pin things to it?
Skooks
February 21st, 2010 @ 1:29 AM

Thank you so much for stopping by and commenting on my paper flower tutorial! Your stuff is so cute. The post above this one with the little camper (nice work on using the binder clip as the hitch!) is ridiculously adorable.

This post is great. I definitely need to work on my photo skills. Things are REALLY low budget at my place, but you’ve given me some good ideas on how to improve without spending a fortune.

Hope to see you come by again sometime.

Skooks
Katie the Scrapbook Lady
February 22nd, 2010 @ 1:24 PM

Love seeing the behind the scene details!