A fellow Momshot Flickr group member is missing her grandpa. He went missing a few days ago and has not been found. I encourage each of you to help spread the word about him in hopes that he will be found quickly and brought home safe and sound.
The link to this image is: http://flickr.com/photos/ladyhawker/2744359968/
How do you print out your fabulous momshots? There are so many options out there; your personal printer, Costco, Walmart, Walgreens, Kodak kiosk, Snapfish, Mpix… the list goes on and on.
I don’t have a lot of experience printing photos. I have done it only a handful of times in the past 10 years. That is a trend I plan on breaking! Immediately!
In my recent post about decorating with photos, I decided to build a little mural of beach photos from our recent trip. Well this evening I spent some time and edited the ones I want to use in Photoshop and cropped them all to the size I want. I’m going with the 5″x7″ prints. I think those will be a good size. Big but not too big.
Now to the printing… I don’t think that my printer will give me the quality that I want so I am going to use a service. Of all my options, I decided to upload the files to Snapfish. I have used them once in the very long distant past. I was pretty happy with my results. I don’t have any complaints. So because of familiarity and the fact that I don’t have to leave my home, I decided to use them again.
I’ll for sure let you know what I think of the results once I receive them.
While I was weighing my options, I found an interesting photo printing comparison website. Check it out and let me know your thoughts. It doesn’t include everywhere but it does include many places. In fact, quite a few that I hadn’t heard of before.
My walls are bare. They are also painted in lovely rental white. When I came home from my trip to my parent’s house, I was struck by the total bareness of my house. Not stark in a good “modern minimalist” kind of way, but in a bad “I don’t care about this rental dump” kind of way. I have decided I need to change that attitude. It’s boring. It doesn’t reflect me or my family.
Baby Steps:
I am thinking of a few photo collage ideas.
So this brings me to my line of thought:
What do you do with your momshots? Do you put them in a brag book? Do you scrap book them? Do you print them out and thumb tack them to a cork board? Do you have 100’s of family photos in frames on all available flat surfaces? What do you like to do?
I am looking through my tons of Momshots and see that most of my photos have less than desirable backgrounds. I mean garbage cans, car tyres, the list goes on…
Does anyone else have this problem?
Obviously the problem has to do with how I compose my photos. However, 98% of my photos are of the snapshot variety. The kind where you grab the camera and capture that silly smile or the goofy look. This one is when my husband Ben was working on his car. Gar wanted to help. He grabbed his toy wrench and the longest screw driver in the tool box.
There are tons of things not technically correct about this photo. Awful trash can background, strange framing, Ben’s leg in the shot, I should have crouched down a bit, etc… I’m sure the list can go on. I do like the lighting. It was around the “Magic Hour” of the evening - that hour or so before the sun sets and the shadows are more muted, less harsh. Plus the subject matter is just adorable. Gar and tools are always a good mix.
So the question I pose is this: How do you take snapshots or Momshots and capture the spontaneity of the situation but still have an appealing background?
This is one of the BIG questions that Momshots aims to answer as we develop our photographic skills. But since we are just learning, does anyone who reads this, have any tips? Or alternatively; What is your favorite background to shoot in front of? Are there backgrounds that you enjoy shooting in front of more than others?
I would love to hear any thoughts on this. Please feel free to share.
