Spreading the Love – Week 1
Thanks to these fabulous bloggers for spreading the Mom*tog love this week!
So Divine Designs – Who also happens to be the designer of the Mom*tog logo and header! More on her in a later post!
Ramblings of Kristi Bug – Who did so much to trick out this blog it’s ridiculous. I don’t even know exactly what she did, but I know she made it more rad and more easy to navigate!
Thanks for spreading the love, ladies!
*** If you blogged about Mom*tog this week and I didn’t link your site it means I didn’t see it on my statcounter. Please send over the link. I would love to see it and I’ll put your site in next week!
What’s In My Camera Bag?
Happy Wednesday, Momtogs! I plan on diving into some technical posts soon and I’m assuming everyone will want to know what kind of equipment I’m shooting with. So, here we go!
I’m a Canon girl! Always have been and probably always will be 
I shoot with the Canon 5D and love it. I’ll probably be upgrading to the Canon 5D Mark II very soon, but just haven’t gotten around to it yet. For weddings I shoot with two camera bodies so it will be nice to not have to use my 30D anymore.
I’d say about 90% of the pictures you see with Brayden (and any other portrait shoots I do) are taken with the Canon 50mm 1.2 lens. I LOVE that lens. It’s expensive, but totally worth it!
For weddings I shoot primarily with the 50 1.2, the 24 – 70 2.8, and the 70-200 2.8. For weddings you really have to have the 70-200 2.8 although I only use it for the ceremony and a little bit of the reception. I also have the 28 1.8, the 85 1.8, and the 15mm fisheye. The 28 1.8 and 85 1.8 are great lenses that are relatively inexpensive.
I’m pretty partial to prime lenses. Prime lenses are the lenses that can’t zoom. I’m not going to lie. It took a lot of getting use to. You really have to learn to zoom with your feet rather than the lens. But, I’ve found that prime lenses are much more crisp.
While you can still get great pictures with cameras like the Canon Rebel, it obviously helps to have a really good camera body and great glass. But, I started out shooting with the Rebel and shot with it for a long time. It’s a great little camera. Your equipment is important, but an understanding of light, a good eye, and how to work your camera is more important in my opinion.
Free Organic Baby Food!
Well, for those of you in Southern California at least. My friend, Courtney, sent me the info. I’m going to go tomorrow in Fullerton to see if my picky eater likes this food any better. Here’s the info: Tasty Baby Food. Thanks for sending it over, Courtney!
Backdrop Examples!
The response from the backdrop post has been overwhelming! I’m so glad it helped out so many people. Here are a couple examples that were emailed to me by some fellow Mom*togs!
From Annie:
From Eden:
And from Julie’s blog:
From Elizabeth Wiggs’ blog (btw she found this fabric in Istanbul!)
Thanks ladies for sending these! Keep rocking it out!
*** When sending submissions please include your website (if you have one). I’ll give you some link love!
For Cora
First of all, thank you SO much for the overwhelming response to Momtog! I appreciate all the comments and emails more than I can express. This is a project I’ve been thinking about for some time and I’m so excited to see if come to life! This blog is going to be great because of YOU! Remember, I want this blog to be a dialogue so if there’s anything you want to see here, a product you want featured, a photographer or an awesome mom you want to see interviewed email me and we’ll make it happen! Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Onto today’s topic! I first learned about little Cora Paige through my friend Julie’s blog. Cora was diagnosed with cancer in January and sadly lost her battle this past weekend. Cora was less than a month younger than my Brayden and I just can’t imagine what her parents are going through right now. It’s heartbreaking.
You may remember these headbands from Julie’s family shoot I did last month.
I got a lot of emails asking where you can buy them. Well, Julie, being as generous and talented as she is, is donating all of the proceeds from her messy flowers and headbands to Cora’s playground fund. How awesome is that? I was lucky enough to get one of the original Cora Paige messy flowers and I will hang it on my bulletin board in my office when I receive it. Stop by her shop and purchase one for yourself while you can! There are only a few left, but Julie has organized a site where you can see all the products that are for sale for Cora’s playground. Click here to start shopping!
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