Jessica Holden Photography » My Little Corner of the Web

Masthead header

Yearly Archives: 2014

In all my years of blogging, I kind of love that never have I had more hits (or Pins!) on a single post than this one, which is simply images of a bouquet of peonies on my dining room table. I’ve blogged about Disneyland, a potential shooter at my daughter’s school, and Elf on a […]

View full post »

This month in our little circle we focused on really moving in, getting up close to our subject. I feel like I shoot like this all the time, but I tried pushing the envelope and getting EVEN closer than I normally would. I realized it’s kind of hard! The rule of thirds is hard to […]

View full post »

This month has been absolutely crazy for us… We remodeled our kitchen last fall, but there was an issue with the paint on the cabinetry, so a few weeks ago we had to pack up and get back out of our kitchen again so they could strip them all down to bare wood and repaint. […]

View full post »

The third in my Tutorials series is shooting to embrace flare in your imagery. (To see the rest of the series, click on the Tutorials link in the menu items above!) I know this can be a fun look to play around with, so I thought it might be helpful to introduce some basic tips! […]

View full post »

I can’t believe how quickly time is passing by. In so many ways it seems like just yesterday that I was heading to the hospital—in an ambulance, no less, because you were coming in such a huge and unanticipated hurry! Life with you has been such an amazing adventure! You have given me two of […]

View full post »

This month was really tough for me! Our theme was “Editorial.” All of us had all sorts of ideas on how to interpret this in terms of photography, and I am betting the amazing girls in my group all did way better than I did on this one! After brainstorming time and again with Emily […]

View full post »

Emily and I took a girly trip to Santa Barbara this week because it was her spring break. We had grand plans to go to the Botanical Gardens and go nuts with my Lensbabies, but our plans got derailed when she got sick, so we ended up being much more low-key—a little time shopping, but […]

View full post »

The second in my Tutorials series! (To see the rest of the series, click on the Tutorials link in the menu items above!) There are some general “rules” for landscape photography. First of all, you will probably be happiest with wider angled lenses, staying at roughly 35 mm or lower. When shooting, the most obvious […]

View full post »