What to Wear for Your Portrait Session

Capturing Your Life, One Image at a Time By Dawn Fry What to Wear for Your Portrait Session, August 2010 Oh the weather outside is frightful…but the fire is so delightful… Oh no! Not Christmas songs! Not yet! It’s too early!! I know, while the weather outside IS frightfully hot, I suppose it is not [...]

So You Think Your Child Should Model

Capturing Your Life, One Image at a Time By Dawn Fry So You Think Your Child Should Model, April 2010 Being in the photography business opens me up to a lot of questions from parents. “How long have you been a photographer?” “How did you learn how to do this?” “How do you get such [...]

Getting Great Newborn Images Without a Professional Photographer

Capturing Your Life, One Image at a Time By Dawn Fry Getting Great Newborn Images Without a Professional Photographer, March 2010 Newborns, newborns, newborns! Oh how I love them! They are sleepy, squishy and wrinkly. They are tiny, lovely and they make the most wonderful sounds. They smell like heaven and they look uniquely beautiful. [...]

Capturing Your Life, One Image at a Time: Documenting the First Year, February 2010

What perfect timing for this article! My niece was born yesterday. Continuing with our photography series for families from Austin area family photographer Dawn Fry, we have for you this month tips for photographing your child in the first year. Even if your child is older than a year, you can still make use of [...]

Capturing Your Life, One Image at a Time: Taking Better Pictures

May I just say how very excited that I am to have the opportunity to share with you a series of articles from Dawn Fry, Austin area photographer extraordinaire, written for Little Austinite!  In these articles, Dawn will teach us all (or review for those who already take great photos) to become better photographers so that [...]

Digital Scrapbooking, a way to preserve your children’s photos

The Cricut (paper cutting machine) informercial just kills me everytime that it comes on television.  I love die cut machines, and to have one at home, that would be heaven.  Every scrap of paper in this house would be cut just for fun; I kid you not.  I priced out the cheapest machine at just under [...]

Photo tips: Rule of thirds

Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, teachers and students. People, as I like to say. I’m Julius Sumn… no, no I’m not. Like Julius Sumner Miller, however, we have some special business to attend to today. The “Rule of Thirds”. It has a rather authoritative title of rule, but I think it’s more a [...]

(Lektion drei) Photo basics: Putting it all together

Good morning, afternoon, evening, or indeed middle of the night. Previously, we have covered the notion of aperture, and shutter speed.  Today, we put the two together.  Simply at first, then with mounting fervor and enthusiasm, we explore the idea that the flagrant use of aperture and shutter speed TOGETHER will let you, dear readers, [...]

(Lição dois) Photo Basics: Shutter speed

Hello, hello, and many hellos. The subject of today’s understanding of a photograph (afterall, it comes from the Greek “phos” for light, and “graphikos” for writing/drawing) is a rather simple one – shutter speed.  Taken literally, it’s the speed by which one opens and closes a shutter, as in the shutters over a window.  In [...]

(Lesson 1) Photo Basics: Aperture

By request, LittleAustinite will be adding a new feature to the site to help everyone capture images that will stand the test of time.  We will not be telling you how to take a picture, that is left up to the individual, but we will be informing the reader on some of the basics – [...]