Life is About Creating Yourself

Feature in On to Baby

So happy to be featured in On to Baby this beautiful morning! Click here to view the post featuring two gorgeous brothers from the Destin, FL area.

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What Is Custom Photography?

The photographic art that decorates your home is the vision of the photographer you have entrusted to capture your family. The way a photographer captures the environment, lighting and mood of the moments that will be treasured for generations are individual to each artist. For this reason it is very important that the photographer you choose reflects your style.

Custom photography is about choice and experience. A fun and luxurious experience that ultimately ends with artistic images of your family that have been personally edited by the photographer and reflect the photographer's vision but always customized for you.

Custom photography is art!

Are you curious about what a custom photography session with me is like? Email your name and address to info@verobooth.com and I will send you a package with information such as what to expect and what is included in a session with Verobooth Photography. Find your photographer in time to book for Fall 2011, spots are filling up fast!

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Can't Wait Till Fall

My Favorite Black & Whites

I LOVE color! The more colorful the better! But some B&W's just steal my heart! These are just a few of my favorites!

New Welcoming Package

Working on the new welcoming packages for the clients that have already booked for Fall 2011! If you have not booked your session yet email info@verobooth.com.

Live, Dance, Love, Sing!

Life is too short for anything but, so do it! Wishing everyone is having a weekend full of happiness!

Looking forward to next week's special! It's a good one so don't miss it!

P.S: That's a photo of my daughter and her great-grandmother (my grandmother) coloring. My grandmother is a wonderful artist and my little girl loves to draw flowers and landscapes like her! She learns so much from her Ailalu!

Same Image, Two Ways

Most of the time a photo is either black and white or color, but sometimes I just can't decide!

New Packaging

About to ship some new orders and figured I would take a few pictures of the new packaging! I am so excited about it! Tell me what you think!

This is the box that holds your CD with all the digital images from our session together. This eco-friendly box is 95% recycled.

Your CD comes with instructions on how to care for your digital purchase and a copy of the Royalty-Free Personal Use License Agreement.

Your CD comes safely tucked in this 100% recycled CD sleeve imprinted with the Verobooth Photography logo.

Finally, your CD with all your beautiful photographs!

Kiss The Earth

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
Kiss the Earth with your feet.
Bring the Earth your love and happiness.
The Earth will be safe
When we feel safe in ourselves.

Five Tips To Improve Your Photos

Forget about what camera you have. Good photography can be achieved with thought and creativity. Here are five tips sure to take your photography abilities to the next level!

1. USE AVAILABLE LIGHT

Every photographer knows that the most important element to photography is light. Light is WAY more important than the equipment you have, or don't have.

If your camera comes with a pop-up flash forget it exists! Unless you just have to take a picture at night I would not use it. That pop-up flash does not have good range and it's blowing up right in front of your kids faces... the result: they turn out pale, red-eyed and the whole background is dark. In other words, not pretty.

Lets go outside! And better yet let's go outside during dawn or dusk, or when its overcast. I know it does not look that pretty, but when it's overcast is the best time to take photos! This is because there wont be any harsh light casting unflattering shadows all over faces. Whenever it's not a "beautiful day" and it looks like it might rain I take my kid outside and start taking a bunch of photos.

If you take a lot of photos at night or indoors where there is not much available light, I would bite the bullet and buy an accessory flash to put in your hot shoe (if you have one).

*** Side note: Do not forget about your pop-up flash altogether. Your pop-up flash, also known as fill flash, comes in handy when taking pictures outside during the day! Huh? I know, why would I need my flash outside when the sun is out! When you take pictures outside and it's not overcast or dawn or dusk, you can use your fill flash to erase all those ugly shadows caused by the bright sun.

The picture below was taken outside with fill flash.

2. KEEP IT SIMPLE

Some of the most beautiful photographs are the most simple. This is especially true when speaking about backgrounds. Find a plain background for your subject before shooting away. You don't want the background to be too hectic and take away focus from your subject.

The photo below was taken in an indoor playground. It was hard to find a plain background, but nothing is impossible!

3. CLOSER, CLOSER, CLOSER...

Get it? Move in close! Fill the picture with your subject. There you go!

The picture below was taken indoors using only available light from a nearby window. Moving in close puts all the focus on that gorgeous face!

4. STUCK IN THE MIDDLE

Stop placing your subject in the middle of your frame. I mean, every once in a while it is ok, but it adds so much to the photograph when you place your subject off-center. Try it out, you'll love the outcome!

5. CAN'T... HOLD IT... ANY... LONGER...

My Mother, God bless her, she's a sweetheart! But she was the worse about making us hold these sweet poses for what seemed like an eternity! "Just one more, just one more, now put your arm around your sister! Move a little closer... now SMILE!!!"

This is torture.

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Ok, more comments - As a kid in the middle of the costume party, all of my friends are playing, moving further and further away and my Mom is making me pose forever with my lame four-year-old sister -- Now that is someone that can hold a pose forever! She's 22 now, still can hold a pose, and still lame! Just kidding... at least about the lame part... the posing part is true!

But really, don't make your kids pose, at least not EVERY time. Your kids will only be x-years-old once! Follow them around and take pictures of them being them! Capture their true spirit and have fun while you are at it! Believe me, years from today, those silly pictures will bring more smiles to your heart than the posed ones... not to mention better childhood memories for your children.

Mom I love you... you ARE the best!

The photo below is of my daughter's friend playing with a ball... or chewing a ball... who knows!