A PSA
I’ve received a few emails and comments about Brayden’s pictures on the train tracks. I want to let everyone know that those are dead tracks. No trains travel on them! I may do a lot of crazy things to get a shot, but putting my child on real train tracks where real, big, fast trains travel is not one of them. I would highly suggest that you do not put your two year old (or anyone else’s two year old) with suitcases and a birthday cake on real train tracks. Seriously. I was shooting an engagement session last year and we were shooting out in the middle of nowhere, but close to a train track. The couple was probably 10 feet away from the track and out of nowhere comes a train. I did not hear it. I did not feel the ground rumble. As I was taking those pictures I thought it would be cool to have the couple on the tracks. Had they been on the tracks I honestly don’t know if the train would have seen them / us. The whole thing really scared me! It’s just not worth it!
Onto happier topics, I love what Kristen is doing over on her blog:
I’m totally guilty of blogging about the happier times and sugarcoating things a bit. But, I think the better pictures come with happier times. I mean, how many crying pictures can I really post?
Because there’s a lot of this that goes on in our house, trust me! But I would rather post the pictures of the times when we are having fun!
Now, if you follow my tweets there isn’t anything sugarcoated over there! In fact, I think I probably tweet to much. I’m guilty of tweeting before I think.
Dirty Sensors
Do you ever get random little dots in your pictures? Especially when shooting pictures that have a blue sky as a background? Those little dots and yuckiness means that you, my friend, have a dirty sensor!
I was scared to death to clean my sensor. Instead of doing it myself I would drive it to the Canon repair center and have them do it for me. This worked out great until they started charging to clean sensors. I figured I should learn how to do it myself. And you know what? It’s not that hard. And I think I do a better job then Canon does. Here’s how you do it:
1) Buy some sensor cleaning stuff. I use the Sensor Swab Type 3 and the Eclipse cleaning solution.
2) Take off your lens
3) Turn your camera on and go to the “Clean Sensor” option in the menu.
4) Lay the camera down flat so you can access the sensor.
5) Put a couple of drops directly onto the sensor swab.
6) Slide the swab firmly across the sensor. Repeat in the opposite direction.
7) Turn your camera off and you’re done!
And just in case you still need help here’s some guidance via You Tube.
To avoid getting dust on your sensor always change lenses as quickly as possible and hold the camera with your sensor pointing to the ground when you have the lens off. If you have the sensor pointing to the sky you are more likely to have dust fall into it. Good luck and don’t be scared! I promise it’s not hard!
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Perfect Day
On Formspring someone asked me what my perfect day would be. Yesterday was pretty much it. Here is the formula for my perfect day:
1) Chuck has random Tuesday off from work. Chuck never gets random Tuesdays off from work.
2) Brayden sleeps in past 7.
3) Donuts for breakfast.
4) A sunny and beautiful day with tempertures in the high 70′s. And it’s February.
5) Walking along the beach with my favorite guys.
6) Brayden making me proud by being adventurous and trying new things.
7) Randomly find a piece of art that I had been searching for at a store by the beach. Buy said art.
Head home before noon and get a full days work in while Chuck watches Brayden.
Okay, maybe the day would have been more perfect if I wouldn’t have had to work, but I think that’s pretty darn close to perfect.
CF Cards
I hope all of your Valentine’s and Presidents Days were great! My wonderful husband surprised me with a night in Laguna Beach at my favorite hotel… with no baby! It’s amazing what a night away can do to revitalize you!
Now, back to business. Emily sent me this email:
My 5D won’t format my biggest card and I’ve tried all I can to fix it with no avail- so I am in looking to buy a new card. Do you have any advice? Are certain cards better than others? Thanks Drew!
My cards are SanDisk and I’ve never (knock on wood) had a problem with them. I always buy whatever the newest version is. The last cards I bought were the Extreme IV and I love them. As long as you stick with a major brand (SanDisk and Lexar are two of the biggest brands) you should be okay.
I personally only shoot on 4GB cards. The reason I don’t use an 8, 16, or 32 GB card is because what happens if you lose it? Or if it gets corrupted? You lose that many more images, right? It may be more convenient, but at least if something happens to one of my 4GB cards at a wedding (knock on wood again please!) I only lose 200 something images (if I’m shooting RAW) versus half of a wedding with a 32 GB card. Even if don’t shoot weddings I think it’s a good idea to not shoot on a large card for that same reason.
Happy Tuesday!
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