May long weekend is almost here! Just a quick reminder to charge your camera batteries and video cameras. If your camera needs double AAs remember to pick up extras.
STAPLES has an amazing deal on sd cards – quick suggestion though…don’t buy huge cards. I hear from clients all the time who have a years worth of pictures on their sd cards and something happens and the cards die.
Personally, I don’t use anything larger than 1 gig. I usually have 3 or 4 cards with me at all times but I like to shoot more cards for a couple of reasons:
- If a card gets lost or damaged, I would only lose a small number of photos from my holidays rather than potentially everything.
- By using smaller cards it kind of forces me to save them to my computer right away. Again, better to be safe than sorry.
Here are a few photo tips for this weekend:
- Your kids sleeping. Is there anything more gorgeous than watching your children sleeping? I have so many beautiful shots of the kids sleeping, sleeping together, in bed with us, sleeping on top of us lol!
- You and your husband – Pass the camera over to the kids and let them take a few photos of you guys. One of my favorite photos of Mark and I is one my son took as we were sitting in our boat!
- Your pet – The other child in the family! Get some great shots of the kids walking the dog, playing with the dog or just hanging out. Again, its one of those things we tend to forget to photograph
- Going for a walk – As you can guess, I take my camera everywhere so I am really lucky that I have so many wonderful photos of my family. Whenever we go for walks I try to remember to bring the camera and make a point of getting shots of the kids walking in front of us. Last summer I got a great shot of my daughter walking down the country road with my mom and the dogs. It was later and the sun was just starting to go down so the lighting was amazing. One of my all time favorites!
- a great sunset – if you are near the lake and there is a great sunset, grab your camera and head down to the water. The light changes really quickly so you will want to shoot alot and try a few different angles. I took this in 2008 of my husband and son. The light was dropping quickly so we raced down to the water so I could take some portraits. This ended up being my favorite and is still hanging up in our home.
- a photo of everyone – May longweekend is a tradition with us. My cousin and his family come to the lake and we get to spend the weekend with them. Tons of people and always lots of fun. Before the weekend wraps up I try to get photos of him and his wife with my kids, his kids, and whoever else happens to show up. Make sure you tell them to look at the camera and smile rather than just take shots from far away where no one is really looking. Everyone gives me a rough time as I go around and quickly shoot photos of each of them but in the end it is worth it and when I start sharing them with everyone a few weeks later, everyone is thrilled!
Hope that helps get you started. Enjoy your weekend everyone and be safe on those Alberta roads!
