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Photography Workshop for Parents, Click or Treat

October 11, 2010

Back by popular demand, And of Andi Diamond Photography will be teaching her “Take Better Pictures of Your Children Workshop” on Monday, October 18, 2010 at Palm Wellness in Hyde Park, South Tampa.  The class is at 6:30pm and covers the basics of photography, including how to use a DSLR (though you don’t have to have a DSLR to attend the photography workshop).  All mommies and daddies are invited, especially if you want to learn some tricks from the pros!  The course is $25 and attendees will receive 20% off any service and 10% off any package purchased that night from Palm Wellness.  Please call the studio ASAP to register at 813-503-5056 or email at andi@andidiamond.com.

“Click or Treat” is here!  Call the studio NOW to book your 10 minute Halloween mini session.  $25 and a bag 20+ pound bag of dog or cat food for the Humane Society of Tampa Bay, secures your portrait spot! And because all diary entries are more fun with a portrait, here is a quick peak at Carson’s recent newborn portrait session with his big sisters: Have a great week and thanks for stopping by Andi Diamond Photography‘s Diary!

Lily and Chloe take the cake.

September 27, 2010

One of the best things about being a photographer is that I get to capture and document the growth and development of my littlest clients.  I get to watch them grown and change and turn into little people.  When I first “met” Lily, it was at her mommy’s maternity portrait session, and then again at her newborn portrait session, and now she is sitting up on her own at this portrait session. Her big sister, Chloe just turned 4 and of course wanted to get in on the action! The girls were both so happy, it made my job easy.  Just look at those cheeks! Special thanks to D’s Darling Designs for the fantastic wardrobe.  Lily and Chloe’s closets are stocked full of her great designs!  And I am pretty sure that their mommy brought their entire closet tot heir session.  🙂

On a side note, back by popular demand, my next “Take Better Pictures of Your Children” workshop will be on Monday, October 18 at 6:30 at Palm Wellness in Hyde Park.  Advanced registration is required.  The course is $25 and space is limited.  Please call the studio at 813-503-5056 or email us at andi@andidiamond.com to register.

In other exciting news, Andi Diamond Photography’s first annual “Click or Treat” will be held on Thursday, October 21 starting at 3pm in our South Tampa studio.  Bring your kids in costume for this 10 minute mini session.  For $25 and a 20+ pound bag of cat or dog food for the Humane Society, you will receive an 8×10, 8 wallets, and a Facebook image.  Will we be offering special event pricing for this fund raiser.  Call now to reserve your time spot.

The 10-10-10 Special is here (almost!).  On October 10, 2010 at 9am, be one of the first 10 people to call and secure a portrait session, and you will receive your studio session for $10 with 10% off of your entire order.  (*Sessions must occur weekdays between October 18-29, 2010).

That’s all the news for now,  Hope you have a wonderful week!  🙂 Andi

Take Better Pictures Tampa Workshop-Constructive Critique

May 13, 2010

Actually, I prefer to call it “constructive feedback” and not “critique” or “constructive criticism,” which has a horribly negative feel to it.  The whole point of feedback is to learn and get better, not to criticize.  So “constructive feedback” it is!  Anywho, this is the homework of some of the “students” who attended my workshop, “Take Better Pictures of Your Children” at Art Explorers.   And like good little students, they made sure to hand in their homework on time.  To those who did not, 5 lashes with a  wet noodle- ha!  🙂  I enlisted the help of good friends and fellow professional photographers, Kelly Hite of Pure Sugar Studios in Jacksonville, Fl, Edie Black of Edie Black Photography in Signal Mountain, Tenn, and Robyn Osten of Life’s Little Celebrations in St. Louis, MO for some additional feedback and to help me in selecting a winner.  Here is the homework and “CF” (I selected 1 or 2 of the best images that everyone turned in): I know you were finding it hard to capture Tristan, Beth, esp with a point and shoot camera.  But I think you captured a sweet expression.   I like your composition.  I like how you tried to use window light to get some of that natural light that we discussed.  One thing with photography, the object closest to the camera always tends to appear the largest (hence his ball looks HUGE and out of proportion with his head) (this happens with body parts, too!)  I like this image better than the other your submitted with selective coloring (but kudos for trying some new setting in your camera). Robyn said, “Nice job with rule of thirds, and I even like how you shot half of your son’s face.  The first image is a little soft (not super sharp) and a bit under exposed.  I like the shallow depth of field in the second.  A little soft as well”.  Workshop attendees were told that for their homework they did not have to photograph their kids, especially because I asked them to try shooting in manual (which can be tricky with live “models” when you first start doing it (heck, it can be tricky with live “models” years after you start doing it- ha!)  Edie said, “Great job really making your subject stand out.  I really like the simplicity of the second image.  Good exposure on both.  Both have nice focus.  Again the colors and simplicity of the second stand out the most to me.  Nice job!” I see where you were going with this, Megan, and really think it was a great attempt.  Love the colors- it all looks very cohesive.  It is very underexposed (too dark), but it is in good focus and I like that she is not in the middle.  Nice try! Kelly said “Great DOF (depth of field).  I am a sucker for shallow DOF!  And nice work with sharpness.  My CF would be that they both are a little dark, but I like the catchlights in her eyes.”   (remember that we spoke about catchlights???:) )  “They both have a very sweet spirit to them which I enjoy.” Robyn said, “Again, great composition with rule of thirds.  The first is very underexposed but I know that can be tricky with bright spots on one part of the subject.  I would suggest (if/when possible) moving the subject to more even lighting.  The second is my favorite.  Great light in her eyes and very nice backlighting on her hair.  Great exposure.” Very sweet image, Nate.  And yes, you did manage to get “catchlights” in her eyes.  Your exposure is about 1/2 stop off (maybe a little more).  Her eyes are sharper than you think (I know you were struggling with this).  When I looked up close, her cheek just below her eye was pretty sharp so it might be that your focus point was not exactly in her eye.  Very nice composition.

After looking at everyone’s homework and getting CF from my photog friends, the winner of the homework assignment and the complimentary studio session and $100 print credit goes to Jan (5th set of images with the adorable curly haired little girl.)  Overall, I think everyone did a very good job and I am very proud.  I hope I was able to teach you at least 1 thing about photography or help you improve at least a little bit.  It can be very challenging and  I know I am constantly learning new things and better ways to do things.  I loved teaching the workshop and look forward to more.  Thanks so much for attending and to Lori at Art Explorers for hosting us!

Want to Take Better Pictres of Your Children?

April 4, 2010

Join me this Tuesday, April 6 at 6pm at Art Explorers in South Tampa.  RSVP asap.  It is going to be a great class and I am looking forward to teaching! Get ready for your homework assignment, too.  🙂  A

Tampa Photo Specials at ADP in Tampa…Free Artwork!

March 17, 2010

So thrilled to announce that Andi Diamond Photography will be at International Plaza this Friday through Sunday!  Such a big honor and huge stepping stone for my business.  I am super excited and hope to see many of my current (and future) clients there 🙂  My booth with be right by the children’s play area.  Stop by to visit me or Brittany any time.  All of my current clients will get a special little surprise! Newly booked portrait sessions will get a complimentary $225 framed artwork piece!  SO EXCITED!  (did I already mention that??!!)

In other ADP news….I will be teaching another workshop on “How to Take Better Pictures of Your Children” on April 6th at 6pm at Art Explorers, the fab new art studio for children in South Tampa.  I will share some tips and tricks from the pros to help you take better pictures in between your professional portrait sessions. The course is only $25 in advance ($35 at the door) and will include a $50 gift certificate to Andi Diamond Photography! BONUS! You will also have a “homework” assignment that will be critiqued by a panel of professional photographers where you can show off what you learned at the workshop. The winner will receive a complimentary session and $100 credit with me! LOVE to have you join us!  Give me a ring at 813.503.5056 to register or send me an e-mail to andi@andidiamond.com.

If you have not done so already, make sure to download the iDiamond Photo app on your iPhone or iTouch.  All kinds of fun things over there- including images of the day, specials just for iDiamond Photo app users, and news and gossip.  Just head over to iTunes to download it- for FREE!

And because all diary entries are more fun with an image, here is a quick look at an upcoming diary entry of one of my favorite little dumplings, Bella! tampa-childrens-photographer

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