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TGIF y’all!
It’s been a great week with lots of activity in our Flickr group, the forums and especially on Twitter under #SITSpics! As usual, The SITS Community blows me away with its exceptional bloggers. I’ve had so much fun reading through your photo tips and looking at your shots!
A lot of information has been presented this week. Today we’re going to briefly review and share some great examples and articles contributed by the community. There’s also a challenge for the weekend which will give you an opportunity to complete the photo and blogging challenges if you haven’t already. There’s no time limit, so don’t feel rushed!
Day 1: Composition & Perspective
We went over composition and perspective and issued a challenge to take at least 20 shots with varying compositions and perspectives! Here’s some of what you came up with!
Photo Credits: (Left) Heather at In the Land of Mom. (Right) Sarah at It’s Better Every Day.
- Spring Photos of Estella – Tanya of A Rose and a Star did a photo shoot with her daughter with an iPhone using some beautiful pink and red flowers! If she hadn’t told me, I would not have guessed these were taken with a phone!
- SITS Day 1 – Composition & Perspective. Jenna gets down low with several perspectives of her little boy!
- iPhone Fun Day One at A Professor’s Wife. Wonderful post highlighting the amazing abilities of an iPhone camera!
- 2 Sunflowers Caress: Rule of Thirds at Curiousity Quotient. Jennifer shows us a beautiful example of applying the rule of thirds!
Day 2: Photo Editing & Collages
We covered that photo editing includes selecting your best shots and discarding the rest, then went over some free online photo editing and collage resources. Then we asked you to take a stab at editing your shots and including them in a post.
Photo Credit: Hannah at bubbleboo Photography
- Blog Tips and Tricks for a Delicious Blog at Great Fun 4 Kids Blog. Simone tipped us off about the free photo editing software Photoscape and shared her article on using it to make collages. Perfect!
- Hip Hip Hooray It’s Gymboree Day at ellie-town. Kristin shares her edits and collage created through Picnik!
- SITS Photo Challenge 1 & 2 at funny little world. Kirsten shares some creative perspectives of a teddy bear, plus an awesomely framed self-portrait!
- Lollipop by MOMmetime. Some “lessons learned” from the challenge and a great tip for working with kids!
- SITS Spring into Action Photo Challenge Day 2 – Image Editing at Relatively Chic. Sophie shares some great information about the tools she uses for editing: Photoshop and Lightroom.
Day 3: Lighting
This is one of the most difficult aspects of photography, so we went over some free and easy photo tips to make the most out of indoor and outdoor lighting, then challenged you to find the best lighting in and around your home!
Photo Credit: Cecily at My Chaos My Bliss
- Day 96 at 365 Days of Photos by Branson. Branson used some white paper to make a sort of light box for this wonderfully lit shot!
- Snap a Picture – Day 3 at Redo 101. Mary offers a great recap of the lighting article with cool examples!
- SITS Photo Challenge: Days 3&4 at Little Things. Beautiful examples of taking advantage of lighting conditions inside and outside your home!
Day 4: Social Networking Tips
We went over some ways to use Flickr and Twitter to promote your blog and improve your photography. Your challenge is to write a post about one of your favorite uses of social networking. I’m going to continue collecting ALL of your submissions to categorize and present in a forum post for your reference, so please continue to submit those articles on the forum or on Twitter using #SITSpics!
- Social Networking the Green Way at Green Earth Bazaar. Michelle talks about Hoot Suite, Feedly and Paper.li!
- PC Day 4 at Tails of an Apronista. Some concerns I think many of us have about social networking, namely that they’re a big time suck!
- Social Networking Day 4 at elle-town. Some tips on promoting yourself via Twitter and Facebook!
Coming Up…
Next week we’re going to cover Repetition, Lines, Black and White and Color photo tips. In blogging tips, we’ll go over some easy ways to style your photos, what you need to know about image SEO and what steps you can take to protect your photos online.
Again, keep the great links coming! You can jump into the challenge at any time!
A Day in the Life Challenge!
This is a creative challenge for which you can utilize everything you’ve learned so far about composition, perspective and lighting!
Document a day in the life with photographs. From the top of the morning until the wee hours of night, take pictures throughout the day. Your DitL can center around your blog’s niche and doesn’t have to be personal in nature. A fashion blog might do a day in the life of a shoe or handbag while a food blog might try a day in the life of a stove or refrigerator.
You don’t need to use the photos all together in an entry, but you will probably find one or two that will work well for future blog posts!
Link up or share your experience documenting a day in the life on our forums! You can also share your photos in our Flickr group or Tweet about your experience using #SITSpics!
As an example, here’s a day in the life I did recently.
Have fun and I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
The SITS Spring into Action Photo Challenge is a two week event designed to inspire your photography and help improve your blog with photos. Follow along in our Forums, #SITSPics on Twitter, our Flickr group and Facebook! It’s never too late to jump in!- Introduction: Join the Spring into Action Photo Challenge!
- Day 1: Composition and Perspective Photo Tips
- Day 2: Free Photo Editing and Collage Resources
- Day 3: Lighting Photo Tips
- Day 4: Social Networking Tips
- Day 5: YOUR Photo Tips
- Day 6: Lines and Repetition Photo Tips
- Day 7: Five Image Tips to Improve Your Blog
- Day 8: Color and Contrast Photo Tips
- Day 9: How to Protect Your Photos Online
- Day 10: Spring Into Action Photo Challenge Wrap-Up
- Five Free Tools to Monitor your Site - Jul 27, 2011
- #SITSpics First Monthly Photo Challenge! - Jul 7, 2011
- Using Google Analytics to Find Blog Topics - Jun 22, 2011
- #SITS31DBBB: What Did a Calendar Ever Do For You? - Jun 15, 2011
- #SITS31DBBB: Monitoring Content with Google Alerts! - Jun 12, 2011
- Spring into Action Photo Challenge Wrap-Up - Apr 14, 2011
- 5 Ways to Protect Photos on Your Blog - Apr 13, 2011
- HTML and CSS Photo Basics: Learn How to Style Your Blog Photos - Apr 11, 2011
- Photo Lines and Repetition Tips - Apr 10, 2011
- Spring into Action: Your Photo Tips! - Apr 7, 2011
- Spring into Action: Social Networking Tips - Apr 6, 2011
- Photography and Light: Tips for the Everyday Photographer - Apr 5, 2011
- Spring into Action: Free Photo Editing & Collage Sites - Apr 4, 2011
- Composition and Perspective Photo Tips - Apr 3, 2011
- Join the SITS Spring into Action Photo Challenge! - Mar 30, 2011
Very would like to get a blog post up on this picture taking stuff! I am loving this series!
http://www.threegirlies.com
Just posed this Challenge Day….a little behind but catching up. I’m having trouble with Flickr sending photos to Blogger. Go to my site if you have a moment and you’ll see what I mean.
Thanks. Day 1 is the one I’m having issues with. I am posting out of order…yes I am.
Sandra
Love this series!
I am so impressed with the talent that is showing up with this series!! WOW!
Looking forward to catching up on the challenge and really looking forward to the Day in a Life….
I’m loving all these photography tips. I’m glad they are general make anyone a better photographer tips that aren’t dependent on having. DSLR because I’m quite happy with my point and shoot for now.
Looking forward to the Day in the Life challenge.
I am beyond honored to be mentioned here. Thank you so much! I love this photo challenge, it is definitely helping and pushing me to become a better photographer!
Thanks again!
Oops! I accidentally posted a comment with my OLD blog. Silly computer!
But the fact remains: I am thrilled to have been mentioned and appreciate this opportunity to make my photos better!
This is going to be a great challenge! I know what I am going to do, but can I pull it off! lol! Remember SITSthas I am doing my challenge from my blog http://www.dollmeup2.com
Can you sign two blogs up here at the SITS site?
You can apply this and link up with as many blogs as you’d like!
Apply what?
Apply what you’re learning?
This has been a great series and I have learned a lot. I was so very honored to have one of my pictures used for today’s post.
Good job Heather! If you worked as hard as I did, I know it was quite and honor. Your photos look great!
Absolutely in love with this series!! I’m about a day behind but I’ll catch up this weekend, and I can’t wait to do the DITL challenge!
I would Love to be able to capture such beautiful moments with my camera. Alas, my cam-cam (as Bell says) is so old, there is not much I can do.
I fell off on Day 3 & 4 but I plan to catch up this weekend!
I just realized this was here! LOVE it!
So glad you found it!! Hop right in! 🙂
I’m loving all these great tips!
Hey Mimi! I did not know you were doing the challenge. I headed over to your blog right now!
Great wrap up of the week. I am excited for the challenge. I am going on a trip to Portland tomorrow to see Dave Ramsey Live and this a post of the day with a lot of pictures will be perfect! Thanks for showing one of my pics!
Thanks for these great tips.
Very helpful, indee.
Have a happy weekend, eveyone!
B xoxo
This challenge has been such fun so far. I have seen some really terrific photos – great job everyone!
P.S. – thanks for the mention. 😉
Peace.
I am loving this series – even though I do need to catch up! But I love the community spirit of it and how everyone encourages each other 🙂
And I can’t tell you how excited I was to see my picture in this post. I may even have *squeed* a little bit. Maybe.
😀
Love your pics!!! I have to play catch up too…such great tips being shared! 🙂
More great tips, thank you!
Love this series!