FAQ Friday

I'm wanting to really help out as much as I can and I often get asked a few of the same questions, so I want to make this a weekly thing, so we can all learn as much as we can! I know I still always have questions, so I hope to get all of them answered

throughout my photographic journey. I do have an FAQ section within this blog.

It's above and it's called "For Photographers" just in case

this is your first visit!

I am wanting to move to a new blog, but I don't think that will happen

until the end of the year.

We did have a couple questions from the

last post and they were anonymous, so I want to

get to those in next week!

I want to limit each post to 2 questions, just so

I can you know, be detailed and what not.

The first couple questions come from

Courtney, from Precious Photography

by Courtney McIntosh.

1. How do you light your sessions?

I don't consider myself an expert at all, in fact I took a workshop with

Trevor Dayley and that's where I learned how to shoot in Manuel

and how I learned to start photographing in the shade.

Whaaaat? The shade? YES! It's quite extraordinary

and beautiful. The lighting is quite exquisite.

The reason to photograph in the shade is to actually

take away those harsh shadows from your subject

or having them half-lit. This is huge!

I remember when I learned this technique, I became obsessed with it and well,

all I did was photograph just about every single day

until I felt comfortable with it. It really changes your images for the better.

Just look for shade whenever you are out and about

with your clients! Oh and Also, CLOUDY days are amazing,

it's literally like a huge softbox just expanding itself for free!

When it's cloudy you don't have to worry about finding

shaded spots, so it's pretty neat.

Michelle Moore, actually wrote a wonderful article and you can find it here.

2. What's your typical workflow like for each session?

From the time I leave my session til the end of the night, I start editing

each session and normally get half way done, because I enjoy showing sneak peeks

from the session and I know my clients love seeing a few photos from their session.

After I do that sneak peek, I go ahead and blog about it and than put my favorite images on my website. Anyways... once I am actually done editing the entire session, which for me can take up to 2-3 days, I make sure to back it up on my hard drive and organize it in the folder it should go. I'm a total nerd when it comes to organizing. I have categories, dates, names, etc... for every single session, so I can find it quickly whenever I need to get it back.

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Thanks everyone again for asking questions, I really appreciate

all the feedback and do hope to get more questions for future posts! We have

some wonderful questions that are waiting to be answered!

That's all for today!

Happy Friday!

-Diana

If you guys can just leave me any feedback on here or my facebook wall,

I would greatly appreciate it! I want to make sure I'm being detailed enough, or if you have other questions you want on here! Hope it helps!! Let me know :D