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  • How to take Better Photos ~ Zoom with your Legs

    Debra Wallace

    Photo Tip ~ Zoom with your Legs You’re finally sitting down after getting your kids breakfast, doing a load of laundry, a load of dishes, picking up cheerios and if you’re lucky, eating breakfast yourself.  You’re finally getting a little peace and maybe you’re even drinking coffee, but then your beautiful child does the cutest

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  • Top 3 Ideas for Professional Photos in Winter Rochester NY

    Debra Wallace

    Top 3 Ideas for Professional Photos in Winter Rochester NY Like waterparks and lemonade, location based photography is seasonal. January and July are the quietest months when people are hibernating after the holidays or away on vacations. Periodically people call asking about studio photography (there are several great places in Rochester you can go) but

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  • the Best Places to Buy Prints and Photo Products

    Debra Wallace

    The Best Places to Buy Prints and Photo Products This is a total cop out on my end, but every year we give the grandparents a photo calendar. I don’t have to think about what to get and they know what’s in the wrapping paper.  So either they love it and are happy, or know

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  • Photo Tip: Avoid Direct Sunlight and Look for Shade

    Debra Wallace

    Photo Tip: Avoid Direct Sunlight and Look for Shade When people think photography they tend to think a lot about facial expressions and composition, but after those have been mastered (or at least considered) what really separates the oil from the vinegar is lighting. The irony here is that photography means light writing but it’s

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  • How to Take Great Vacation Photos ~ Placing your subject

    Debra Wallace

    How to Take Great Vacation Photos ~ Placing your subject We recently escaped the gravitational pull of Rochester and flung ourselves to DC for a few days.  It’s a rare place in the world that should be renamed “Photo Op” because that seems to be the primary thing that people go there to do.  If

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  • How to Take Better Pictures of Your Kids: Squat

    Debra Wallace

    How to Take Better Pictures of Your Kids: Squat One of the easiest ways you can improve the photographs you take of your children is by giving yourself a little leg workout. As adults, we want to accomplish tasks with the least possible work. For tall people that usually means taking photos from where we’re

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