She’s known as Beatrix the Beautiful Bunny and she’s a favorite around here. And she’s sooooft… Hop on over to Raw Footage Photography to see Sohie’s take on the theme..jpg)
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At my beginners DSLR workshops we do a lot of hands-on learning! I teach each concept by explaining it, showing lots of photo examples, showing everyone how to do it on their own camera, and then we go out and DO IT! This series of images shows off the set up we used at the last workshop to practice the technique of focusing on still subjects. It’s a great way to put my ever-growing vintage collection to work!




Looks awesome, Jessica. Love your work!!
Love your work and your vintage collection!
I love the collection of vintage trinkets you have at your workshop ! Especially the cameras. Thank you for introducing me to the Manual mode. And for inspiring me to click more pictures on a regular basis.
This workshop was so helpful! Jessica, you are a fabulous teacher! Thanks for helping me switch to the “scary manual mode. ” I would highly recommend your class to anyone that asks!
I have a thing for books. I have greatly enjoyed losing myself in a book ever since I was very young. These days I rarely have time for that luxury, but I do very much love to see these vintage beauties decorating every room in my house. And do you know what else I love? Project Ten! It has been so refreshing and invigorating to plan photo shoots for myself, outside of my regular client sessions. I have just been having such a great time with it. And the excitement and anticipation to see what the other photographers will come up with is the icing on the proverbial cake! So without further ado, here is my interpretation of this month’s theme – “books”.




Don’t forget to hop over to Alana Harris Photography to see her “books” post!
Again, beautiful work Jessica. Love the random stacks of books.
So lovely, Jessica! What a beautiful location, and those books are GORGEOUS. I really love that bottom left shot… I’d hang it on my wall!
Lovely! Makes me want to lay down in a field and lose myself in one of those gorgeous books…
Simply beautiful. I am so envious of that field
So lovely, the old books, the images just all of it!
Beautiful! Where is that gorgeous field??
These pictures are absolutely stunning. You are so talented. I love old books too. They are just beautiful. Books are great, what a fabulous theme. Excited to check out some of the other photographers work. Thanks for sharing!
these are all so sweet. i love the processing.
Mmmm…these are lovely. I am a book lover myself and these are gorgeous!
I adore books, such magical images!
very nice!!!!!
I am seriously a huge fan of your work! Great pictures! Your style is so unique and gives your photos that magical touch I love so much! Awesome!
I loove this session soo so much
Stunning light and colors!! And such a sweet pea too
Absolutely beautiful work. It makes me want to pick up a book especially since I haven’t read in a while. Lovely work as usual.
Some of my favorites from a recent session. There’s just no way to not love a little girl in a vintage pink dress in an orchard full of blossoms! Add in some magical sunlight and a delicate crown of flowers and you can’t help but swoon.


This is so beautiful, your work always inspires me! I love this blog link up too
I am in *love* with that top right photo! The whole post is gorgeous. Simple, honest, innocent. Beautiful work!
These are absolutely stunning!!! Amazing colors and light!!
YOUR WORK IS FABULOUS!! Love the richness in colors of your style!
i love love love these! stunning light
Lovely! Love the blossoms and warm light!
Beautiful, gorgeous session!
What a gorgeous little girl, your work is so soft and lovely.
This makes me long for spring! Such beautiful images. Thank you for sharing.
LOVE these!! So soft and airy. Beautiful!
These are simply beautiful! Love.
Ooh this is so pretty . Are these peach blossoms?
Absolutely gorgeous!
When you print a photo as an enlargement, you are not only changing the size of the image, but changing the shape as well. Just like wide screen and full screen movies have different height-to-width ratios, so do different standard picture sizes. Take a look to see how different picture sizes will affect your image…

Any DSLR (with the exception of a medium-format or large-format camera) shoots in the 4×6 ratio. This means that when you make a 4×6 print, it will look exactly the way it’s framed in-camera. But if you enlarge it to a 5×7, you can see that some of the height will get cropped off. With an 8×10, even more height is lost. So if you had something important at the very top it would get cut out. And you can see the ratios of other common sizes in the diagram as well. In the 20×24 size, the the colorful lanterns get completely cut out of the image. This is definitely something to keep in mind while taking pictures. I usually try to frame my photo the way I want it, but then zoom out a bit to leave some extra cropping room. If you’ll be making enlargements, this will really pay off in the end.
I love your style, would you be interested in guest blogging at LPB? Artists choice for the topic?
LOVE this! What a perfect example to show clients!
Thanks for sharing this!
This is really great information to know. Thanks for sharing
Great tip and definitely something I need to pay more attention to:)
This is so helpful. I have a habit of cropping to tight in camera and then when my clients want a larger print, they don’t understand the ratios. I will be sure to zoom out some more from now on!
Thank you for this post! This is vital information as a newbie starting a business!




Oh wow !! They are all beautiful !! and the third picture is incredible !!
Love the clean simplicity of these, the warm skin tones and rich colours, just a beautiful set. And miss Avery is as lovely as always! xo
Such lovely clean images. Love the one of her hugging bunny so closely.
LOVE the feelings of these images! They have a film feel which I adore! Great job on this set!! xoxo
That is one cute little bunny : ) So sweet.
The kid is pretty cute too ; )
I love everything about this. I love the focus on some of the photos. Lighting was perfect. Great job like always I love your work!
Jessica – you have such a wonderful eye. These are truly lovely. <3 <3
Oh my goodness Jessica these are soooo cute! Love everything about these portraits!!
Love your work. Will always say that. Cuz it’s true. Simply beautiful work from a beautiful artist.
The color is flawless! So clean, and so beautiful. And such a sweet, innocent, honest little shoot. Great work!
These are so sweet! I love how close you get to her! And the amazing light in that room! So pretty.
I love this post! My daughter has a brown bunny rabbit she has had since birth named “Rabbity” The name has changed several times through the years, but this name stuck:) So adorable, I love it!
Stunning session
Amazing light!