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questions for YOU!

By Cori Derksen | Apr 20, 2011

I would love to get to know you a little better. You see, I’m trying to figure out what I should focus my writing on when I post to the blog or send out tips in the newsletter (so it will benefit you!). And I can only do that if I know where you’re at in…

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two summer workshops

By Cori Derksen | Apr 11, 2011

I will be offering two workshops this summer and the dates have finally been set!  The dates are… **NEW JANUARY & FEBRUARY 2012 DATES COMING SOON!** Saturday, June 18, 2011 (9:00am to 3:00pm) Saturday, July 30, 2011 (9:00am to 3:00pm) I love teaching people how to use their cameras. So many people have purchased these…

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what camera should I buy?

By Cori Derksen | Apr 7, 2011

Are you looking to buy a new digital camera? Or do you already have your digital camera and you need to buy a new lens for it? I get a lot of questions as to which camera or lenses I would recommend. So…since I’m here to help you all out I have created a couple…

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taking pictures of newborn babies

By Cori Derksen | Apr 6, 2011

Oh the joys of photographing newborn babies. Do you have an newborn baby? Or are you expecting one? Make sure you capture those precious moments!! They change in a matter of weeks, literally. I usually photograph my newborn babies within their first ten days of life (as much as possible). Here are a couple of…

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shoes and my manual settings

By Cori Derksen | Apr 4, 2011

Just thought I’d share my manual settings for this fun shoe pic: ISO – 400 (evening in the shade) shutter – 1/160 second aperture  – F 6.3 (larger aperture number to get all in focus) lens – canon’s 35mm 1.4L (lovely wider angle lens) camera body – canon’s 5D mark II And yes…I cropped the…

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pics from our daily life

By Cori Derksen | Apr 1, 2011

I recently did a blog post on my main photography blog where I posted a day at my home with my little family. You can see the full post here but I wanted to share some of my manual camera settings on some of my normal, real life shots rather than from a photo shoot.…

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my camera bag

By Cori Derksen | Mar 31, 2011

Ahhh my camera bag…. What’s in it? What equipment do I prefer to use? I’ve been asked this quite a bit lately. I’ve also been asked a lot of “what do you recommend that I buy in this area or that area?” So, I’m doing some work to answer your questions on these goodies and…

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close up photography

By Cori Derksen | Mar 22, 2011

I am growing to love my macro lens. A macro lens is a lens that allows you to capture images very close up. The other lenses that are regularly on my camera (my 50mm, 85mm, and 35mm) do not allow me to get as physically close to my subject or object and photograph them. This…

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taking photographs in a hospital

By Cori Derksen | Mar 16, 2011

I love taking photographs of a newborn baby in the hospital. I usually just take one camera, my 50mm 1.2 lens and my 100mm 2.8 macro lens. I also throw in my white balance target because hospital lighting is different. (You can get your own white balance target online here.) The light in a hospital…

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