Fun Finds: vintage camera Blackberry skins

How cool are these Blackberry skins, wish they had them for my phone.

via Etsy HERE

It's in the Bag!

Look what arrived today! A boy in a bag  My Kelly Moore camera bag!!!

I so excited to finally put all my gear into one spot. I spent an afternoon watching every one of their videos and finally decided on the Libby, I love that it has two handles along with a messenger strap it can fit all the camera equipment I need and my 17" Macbook Pro, how cool is that!

Check out the Kelly Moore Bags and videos HERE

FOLLOW UP on the Kelly Moore Libby:

I love the space this bag offers but I absolutely HATE the handle!!!! I will use it for gear storage and wait until the Epiphanie Lola bag is back in stock.

So Sweet

I came across this photo today, it must of been when we first move in our current home and I was testing out the little barn in the backyard to see if it would work as my studio.

Little E looks so sweet I'm glad it didn't get lost in to the digital photo oblivion like so many other snap shots of my kids have.

Banner Year!

This is what I was doing when my Camera hit 10,000.
Then I had some fun adding the banner in Photoshop.

I labeled 2012 our banner year, it's definitely been full of milestones and banners so far and today is no exception, my camera hit 10,000 actuations! In only 13 months that's good and bad, the good is that Canon says that their 5D mkII is good for about 150k okay it will last me 14 more years (if I continue to shoot at the same rate) the bad news is I will most likely break it before then   my archiving is backed up or well not backed up! 10,000 images has to be stored somewhere! If you're familiar with Actuations (or shutter count) it's the amount of photos your camera has taken. And this is an important number because your camera has a life expectancy and if it's 100K or 150K that's important! Archiving is important too! and apparently using exclamation marks in this post.

Read more on Actuations: HERE

If you want to know more exciting thing about Photography join me on March 3 for my Hot Shoe Mommas Workshop! Just email me to sign up: katerealiphotography@gmail.com

Hot Shoe Mommas: Photography Workshop

Kate Reali Photography will be hosting a Hot Shoe Mommas Photography Workshop
on Saturday March 3, 2012.

Space is limited

What kind of workshop is it?
The workshop is intended to help move you past using the automatic point and shoot mode of photography so many of us Moms use and gain a level of understanding of basic photography terms, lighting, and techniques. You will have a two week access to online material 24/7 for the course, complete with instructions and examples to help you. The course will include a full day of hands on learning complete with models. So if you'd like to get familiar with aperture, shutter speed and ISO and move past shooting in "automatic mode" as we turn our cameras on manual, learn to use a flash and how to take advantage of natural light, this course is designed to help you get more comfortable with your camera.

Click on this blog's Photography Workshop Page Bar for more info!

Two Years of Fun!

 

 We are so lucky here on the Gulf Coast to have such great weather for January and even better was a chance to photograph one of my favorite little tyke who's about to celebrate a big day!

Happy 2nd Birthday!

You can check out how much this cutie has grow since last year HERE.

Holiday Wrap Up

I took this photo after wrapping up my latest holiday photoshoot over the weekend and I just can't get enough of it! I adore all things bicycle and throw in Christmas I might have printed this for our card if it wasn't so smitten over my 4 kids and wanted to show everyone how awesome they are! Go here if you missed it.

 Happy Holidays!

~ Kate

Our 2011 Christmas Card Revealed

front of card

Every year I kind of make a big deal over our Christmas Card,  I consider it like a mini present to all our friends and family, so the planning starts months in advance before the big photo shoot. This year we wanted to have fun with it so I had to get a little crafty along with the usual taking of photos and they turned out great if I do say so myself. 

Special thanks to the kiddos on another fabulous job!

Inside of card

back of card

middle photo on the back

Hope you enjoyed!

-Kate

You can check out some of out past years Christmas cards here.

More Photoshop Actions: Before & Afters

There is a lot you can do to save a photo with the right cropping, Photoshop actions and adjustment of the color palette you can take an otherwise discarded photo and make it into a mantle piece.

If you Surfing the internet for Photoshop actions you'll be amazed at how many are out there to help photographers, I like to use my own combination of actions and manual adjustments to get the finished product to my liking.

Here are a few of my favorite action sites like these  Totally Rad Actions, Florbella, HERE and HERE.

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone had fun snapping photos of their little ones in costume, I know I did!