This is such a great video! People think I spend thousands of hours shooting my kids! It takes maybe 5 minutes and you put the camera away and enjoy them!
Thank you SO MUCH for this gift! As a newlywed with no kids yet, I am so excited to have a PLAN when it comes to creating a legacy as you have done! Once I found out about your way of preserving your own family memories, I've been dying to know more. You are truly a saint for sharing so much of your lifestyle with us!
KJ is the best! In the past year, I watched a few of these videos and quickly realized that her style of teaching resonates with me. Then, I bought a few of her courses and I am a much better photographer for it. Thank KJ and your crew!!!
First Goal: pull the camera out and designate a family memory card!! Second goal: take a handful of photos weekly on the nice camera, not just my phone! Love this series and can’t wait for more!
I love this series Katelyn! As a regular KJ Student it’s so exciting to also get to watch more personal things like this from you here on RUclips. I’ve been intrigued by your family documentation and I feel more confident that I can start capturing my own in a similar way when my little boy arrives in June!
LOVE it!! I am not a pro photographer. I just like taking photos of my family to make yearbooks and document precious moments in a beautiful and meaningful way. I can't wait for more videos like this with practical tips, especially on shooting. I had an issue of overshooting so now I follow a rule of only taking 10 shots. I also start with a goal in mind. When I reach my number, that is it. The quality of my photos have improved immensely and I am able to cull and edit on the same day like this I am done. Plus,my baby does not look annoyed at me anymore! :)
My goal is to pick a spot in my home for my camera so I actually use it! I have been saying I need to do this for months and this video completely inspired me! I think I felt silly in the past keeping it out because we don't have kiddos yet, and I think our lives are boring...but that's just not the truth! We host a lot of dinners/etc. at our house, and we have a cute puppy, too! Plenty to be captured! Thanks, Katelyn!
I LOVE this Family Legacy series. Please continue it as I’m getting a lot out of it. I’d live to see what software you use to put together your Family yearbooks. Also, would lobe to know your thoughts on including journaling in your yearbooks.
Thank you so much for this series!! Sometimes I just cry because I want to be taking more photos of our life, but I have to mentally prepare myself so much to do it. Not because taking the photos causes me stress (that's the part I absolutely love), it's the idea of editing the photos after! If you could make a video on this, I would SO appreciate it! Even hearing you say that you fill up an entire card before editing anything made my heart sink! So many of my photos go unused and don't get looked at because I can't find the time or motivation to edit soooo many photos. Thank you, Katelyn!
I just love how you say to keep your camera out. I just started do that because I miss the moment. Thanks for the tips. I always take lots of images and then go through them It takes a long time and then edit them for my clients. I just started a year ago this April to dive in as a portraiture professional photographer. I truly love your comments and appreciate your time too. Pat
Loving everything about this video! I always have a hard time getting my camera out when I'm not working, yet I'm so bummed I don't have any nice photos of my own life. Thank you for sharing!
I finally designated a spot for my camera to be out and accessible last week! I'm a little nervous about the 4 year old...no place in the house is safe from her, but hoping the camera stays safe. I'd LOVE to make family yearbooks so the photos are easy to pull out and look at! My two big struggles are finding the time and motivation to sit and edit personal shots, and figuring out the light and color in our tan/brown everywhere rental house (floors, walls ceiling, cupboards, counters, etc). We've been here a year and a half and I'm still trying to figure out how to make us not look jaundiced in every shot.
This was so freaking helpful. Organization is half the battle of having a hobby or a profession. I upgraded from a D5000 to a D780, and I really want to just shoot that camera all the time. But I am need organization so that it is not work and I can actually enjoy the process. Thanks again.
Thank you for this! I am so excited for this series. Do you have a system for secondary backup for your personal photos in case your harddrive were to ever fail/corrupt? Thanks!
This was soooo helpful! We don’t have kids, but my goal is to have a really good looking album of my husband and I. And also my mom, dad, and brother because we all hang out a lot!
I'm loving this series. I've only made one photo book of the first year of my eldest sons life. My intention was to do one every year but I found it so stressful. Now he's 6 and he has a brother who is 4 and my youngest has never had a photo book. Tips on how to put then together and the processes you use would be awesome. 😊
Such great content!!! Thank you for the peek inside your life and how you have captured your family's memories. This is definitely something I've got to get better at not worrying about everything being perfect all the time!!
I love this! Thank you for sharing! I would love to hear more about how you do your family year books. I always have such a hard time putting them together and feel like it takes forever!
Love it!!!! I need to start separating my professional and personal photos both in cards and in hard drives. I think that tip would make printing way less overwhelming!!! May I ask where you get your family yearbooks printed?
I live in Washington State but I have family in Virginia, and have visited. I have been on that drop tower in King's Dominion! Loved the video SO MUCH, thank you.
Very very high quality videos. Cant really tell is there anything obvious that you could improve. Keep the great work and wait for the success. Chears!
I'm loving this Family Legacy Series! Thank you for taking the time to go into detail about how you preserve your family in such a special way. It is inspiring and motivating for me to do the same! Also, thank you for including that bonus question! I was literally wondering that the entire video, so I appreciate you taking the time to talk about when enough is enough. I'm also really looking forward to creating a family album. May I ask when you take the time to do it? It seems a bit overwhelming with how busy life is.
Thanks for the point about daring to take less-than-perfect photos. Some of the most famous news photographs are "substandard", thinking of the shot of Robert F. Kennedy on the floor of the kitchen after assassination 1968, with busboy.
Just letting you know those UV or sky filters can leave like a white or gray circle when shooting backlight even if its like high noon. It's just badd light bouncing back. I use to use filters all the time but decided to remove them once I found out it was making those weird white or gray circles. Sometimes landscape photographers talk about this.
Wonderful tips! My goal is to begin creating albums again. I have about 40 so far covering 26 years of marriage and kids but stopped when life got super busy with highschool kids heading to college. With one child left at home, I want to make scrapbooking a priority again. Thanks for the inspiration.
thank you. I think for my first goal is to organize my pictures and have our very first photo book. Separate my SD cards for family use only and one for my hobby. Thank you for the tips.
Where do you make your album cover? Also any tips for photographing older children in every day life? Thanks Katelyn, I love this series because I love documenting my family, I just never thought of doing a yearbook album.
Maria I think for older kids, an actual activity might make taking their photos seem more natural instead of just capturing them being silly. Like “oh you’re going to put on a dress up show?! Let me get my camera!” Instead of just capturing giggling toddlers! I make the cover in Indesign!
I've just gotten in the habit of grabbing my flash too whenever I'm shooting in my house. I live in a very dark cabin with everything just... Dark. Thankfully I do have a white ceiling and I feel so much better about my images by just grabbing it quickly.
Loving this series! Excited to find a home for my camera tomorrow. I do take pictures of my kids, but not nearly as much as I would like. Thanks for the tips!
Love love LOVE this!! I'm definitely one who has made it to complicated. I like the idea of having a home for my camera. I'm excited to apply your tips and start really documenting my family.
Great Tips KJ but it case basis situation. I can't get my camera out on the open due to my two toddlers has special needs .:( They break everything and can't grasp simple explanations and negative words. I am a single mother with no family around so it is hard.. But love all the tips you share. Thanks!
Wowww these are amazing tips and true many wont follow it... myself and friends locked their camera in wardrobe :D. Note: I don't own the DSLR but have point and shoot but owning one FX dslr sooner....
If I'm not working I just use my iPhone. LOL. But I would recommend maybe trying even a smaller mirrorless camera even with the basic kit lens if your not going for bokeh. If you use DXO PhotoLab 4 Deep Prime or DXO PureRaw Deep Prime you get two stops of noise reduction. Trust me when I say this DXO Deep Prime is ground breaking noise reduction. I will say this I like DXO PhotoLab 4 better then PureRaw because I can turn off sharpening. But their sharpening is very nice with lower ISO has a 3D look almost.
This is an awesome video!! Especially the last tip! I am sure this will be helpful during travels too, know what you need and be done when you get that.
Where I can purchase the photo album? I love it! Thank you for sharing these wonderful tips! I so new at taking photos. I only have A Rebel T7 but I can’t wait to learn all I can.
Such good tips!!! I'm definitely gonna find a place for my camera to live downstairs and are main living area, There are so many times I miss a moment because I had to run upstairs to the office to grab my camera. I love your family your book idea and talk to my husband last year about wanting to start it this coming year!
Thank you so much for this series! I'm curious to learn more about your yearbook, the site you use, whether you can upload both DSLR pictures and phone pictures and whether you can use photoshop elements in place of lightroom (I haven't made the switch yet). Looking forward to the next one ❤
Hi Katelyn, thanks for your wonderful gift sharing your story and photography knowledge. I watched your video of having camera ready and in it's spot. Can you share what you set your camera on for photographing kids in the home? Auto focus? Manual focus? Settings? Thanks Wilma
This makes so much sense. Thank you. I would love to make photo books, but I can't decide what company to use or what type of book to make (lay-flat) etc, so nothing is getting done. Ugh.
I am doing a wedding shoot inside a aquarium setting soon. No flash allowed due to the fish sensitivity. I am very nervous about the poor lighting. Have some led lights. Have you any suggestions ?
You’ve inspired me to create family yearbooks! I use Chatbooks but I want big family yearbooks as well! I’ve put together my yearbooks now I just have to buy them! Haha
Thank you fir a great video and some great tips. Definitely going to put this into practice in our home. One question... How do you make sure that you're in the family albums as welll?
Thanks for the great video. I just into photography recently because family video took too much time to make and edit. Video was more important for the 1st 2 years of my son's life. I was able to capture almost every milestone of the 2 yrs. About 105 videos. I now uploaded to a cloud service in an organized file. With photos, I would love to make a year book to organize my favorite moments. Do you have a tutorial on making a year book?
@@KatelynJames Thanks for replying back. The video had great tips on the flow of the year book with color arrangements and composition. I have 2 short questions. Which site do you prefer, Blurb or BookWright? What's the maximum pages you recommend before going into part 2 of the year book? Just like you, I also have a lot of pictures of my family and I might have to do 2 part series.
I want to know how to add some sort of context of the images with the stories that were happening at the time but making it timeless still in an album format
Thanks for this video! On your advice I used BLURB for my yearbook and I love it! I'm now busy with the yearbook of 2019. I try to make photo's of the family I live in and love. But your last question helps! It's indeed remembering the moment. I also love to capture the moments when someone did something so we can have a good laugh after it! I've one question: where do you store your camera after you took the photo's?
Thanks for this! You mean where do I keep my camera after using it? Right there on that blue table! It's CONSTANTLY out in the open. I never put it away actually!
I am wanting to sell my work to businesses etc. I am an i-stock contributor for Getty Images already but I don't feel it is going anywhere. With all the 'No Solicitation Allowed' I struggle with HOW to start the process so businesses can view my work for possible purchase. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
My goal is to make at least one family yearbook and would love you to touch more on that. How many you make Per year? I also need to shoot more often the tiny details of life.
Hey Katelyn, I know this is TOTALLY unrelated to this video, but I wondering if you could do a video on how you back up your files? I am a photographer, and I back up to cloud storage, I don't erase anything off my memory cards until it's delivered, but I'd like a more secure way. Especially on the way home from a wedding! I don't have cameras with two card slots, so I was wondering what suggestions you might have? Anyway, your videos are WONDERFUL! I love your precious family!
hi Hannah! I do love the double card slots. It's given me SO much peace about my backups! However, I have a portable hard drive that I have Michael upload to DURING the reception so that I can see if any files are corrupt before I leave for the night. This allows me to leave the wedding with almost every image duplicated and in two separate places. I also (just like you, use my cards as a triple backup until the gallery is delivered! Then we move our client's folder (of unedited, culled and edited images) to a DROBO backup system in our office!
I need to find a way to get all of my photos organized. I have college and high school kids with YEARS of pictures on various old hard drives as well as printed ones in boxes and scrapbooks. I have a hard time doing it because it’s overwhelming and I’m not sure who to do that.
Love this video! What is your system for backing up the photos & editing them? Do you load them to computer daily and edit them, or once per month? I need a better system for family photos...1 year behind. ahhhh! Thank you!
Thank you for giving people tips like these...♥️ I just have a question... You mentioned lenses but they were Cannon. Thank al not a professional photographer, one day I want to become one by knowing how to deal with my camera to capture the light I see, but by now, I only can ask. My camera is semi-manual and is Nikon, can you tell me what lenses to buy in that brand or I can use the Cannon lenses you suggest here? I mean, do they feet even the cameras are from a different brand? Because my brother-in-law gave me a nice lens and it doesn’t fit my camera for real, my camera doesn’t recognize it so I can’t use it... 😕
Hello! I wish I could help with Nikon lenses, but I am only familiar with Canon products. I am sure there is something comparable to the lenses I recommended, I am just not sure what they are.
When taking pictures of sweet family moments, do you ever ask your kids to do anything? (Like, "Smile toward me" or "give them a hug") or is it mostly candid shots?
@@KatelynJames not sure if you have already done a video about it - but would be interested to see what your process of backing up is? (for personal photos) For professional work i have a triple back up system (2 hard drives + cloud) - but for personal stuff i wonder if this is overkill.
shoot them when they aren't paying attention.... offer to capture something they LOVE the most.... friends, playing video games, etc. I have found that the best images are the ones where I didn't try to get them to pay attention to me!
Wonderful tips!!! Being a film photographer, I leave my big Pentax out on on the kitchen counter (with a flash) so that I can snap photos the same way! Shooting film forces me to be very intentional about pressing the shutter, I usually take 4-5 images (if it's a big moment) and maybe only 1 or 2 for small stuff. This is Dr. Seuss week, and my 2.5 year old is dressed "wacky tacky" and I grabbed a quick photo of her headed out the door to daycare this morning in her outfit. That's all I need to remember the moment, not a 100 image gallery! I post my images to instagram of my family regularly :-) @jjhorton
Missed part 1 of the series? Watch it here!! ruclips.net/video/mqGEZDGCu2E/видео.html
Thanks!
This is such a great video! People think I spend thousands of hours shooting my kids! It takes maybe 5 minutes and you put the camera away and enjoy them!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you SO MUCH for this gift! As a newlywed with no kids yet, I am so excited to have a PLAN when it comes to creating a legacy as you have done! Once I found out about your way of preserving your own family memories, I've been dying to know more. You are truly a saint for sharing so much of your lifestyle with us!
You can do it!
KJ is the best! In the past year, I watched a few of these videos and quickly realized that her style of teaching resonates with me.
Then, I bought a few of her courses and I am a much better photographer for it. Thank KJ and your crew!!!
Wow, thank you!
First Goal: pull the camera out and designate a family memory card!! Second goal: take a handful of photos weekly on the nice camera, not just my phone! Love this series and can’t wait for more!
Great goals!!
My camera is always with me. But not my dslr LOL I carry my Fuji X-T20 with a 35mm f2 lens that thing is sharp.
I love this series Katelyn! As a regular KJ Student it’s so exciting to also get to watch more personal things like this from you here on RUclips. I’ve been intrigued by your family documentation and I feel more confident that I can start capturing my own in a similar way when my little boy arrives in June!
I'm so glad!
LOVE it!! I am not a pro photographer. I just like taking photos of my family to make yearbooks and document precious moments in a beautiful and meaningful way. I can't wait for more videos like this with practical tips, especially on shooting. I had an issue of overshooting so now I follow a rule of only taking 10 shots. I also start with a goal in mind. When I reach my number, that is it. The quality of my photos have improved immensely and I am able to cull and edit on the same day like this I am done. Plus,my baby does not look annoyed at me anymore! :)
Thats a great idea! I am a over shooter as well!!
My goal is to pick a spot in my home for my camera so I actually use it! I have been saying I need to do this for months and this video completely inspired me! I think I felt silly in the past keeping it out because we don't have kiddos yet, and I think our lives are boring...but that's just not the truth! We host a lot of dinners/etc. at our house, and we have a cute puppy, too! Plenty to be captured!
Thanks, Katelyn!
You can do it!
I LOVE this Family Legacy series. Please continue it as I’m getting a lot out of it. I’d live to see what software you use to put together your Family yearbooks. Also, would lobe to know your thoughts on including journaling in your yearbooks.
Great suggestion! We use Smart Albums
Thank you so much for this series!! Sometimes I just cry because I want to be taking more photos of our life, but I have to mentally prepare myself so much to do it. Not because taking the photos causes me stress (that's the part I absolutely love), it's the idea of editing the photos after! If you could make a video on this, I would SO appreciate it! Even hearing you say that you fill up an entire card before editing anything made my heart sink! So many of my photos go unused and don't get looked at because I can't find the time or motivation to edit soooo many photos. Thank you, Katelyn!
Jen You are so right!! The struggle is real!! I will add this to my list of future videos! Thanks for sharing!
I'm a 26 year old dude... and I love this channel. Keep it up!
Glad you enjoy it! Let us know any videos you would like to see in the future!
Of course! It would be cool to hear how you keep a consistent look when editing hundreds of pics from a wedding, beyond just using the same preset.
I just love how you say to keep your camera out. I just started do that because I miss the moment. Thanks for the tips. I always take lots of images and then go through them It takes a long time and then edit them for my clients. I just started a year ago this April to dive in as a portraiture professional photographer. I truly love your comments and appreciate your time too. Pat
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching!
Great video Katelyn! You are just the sweetest! A good reminder to have the camera out!
Thanks so much!!!!!
Loving everything about this video! I always have a hard time getting my camera out when I'm not working, yet I'm so bummed I don't have any nice photos of my own life. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!!
I finally designated a spot for my camera to be out and accessible last week! I'm a little nervous about the 4 year old...no place in the house is safe from her, but hoping the camera stays safe. I'd LOVE to make family yearbooks so the photos are easy to pull out and look at! My two big struggles are finding the time and motivation to sit and edit personal shots, and figuring out the light and color in our tan/brown everywhere rental house (floors, walls ceiling, cupboards, counters, etc). We've been here a year and a half and I'm still trying to figure out how to make us not look jaundiced in every shot.
You got this!
This was so freaking helpful. Organization is half the battle of having a hobby or a profession. I upgraded from a D5000 to a D780, and I really want to just shoot that camera all the time. But I am need organization so that it is not work and I can actually enjoy the process. Thanks again.
Glad it was helpful
Thank you for this! I am so excited for this series. Do you have a system for secondary backup for your personal photos in case your harddrive were to ever fail/corrupt? Thanks!
Yes I do! Everything is backed up on our drobos!
This was soooo helpful! We don’t have kids, but my goal is to have a really good looking album of my husband and I. And also my mom, dad, and brother because we all hang out a lot!
Great Goal!
I'm loving this series. I've only made one photo book of the first year of my eldest sons life. My intention was to do one every year but I found it so stressful. Now he's 6 and he has a brother who is 4 and my youngest has never had a photo book. Tips on how to put then together and the processes you use would be awesome. 😊
Thanks for the idea!
Such great content!!! Thank you for the peek inside your life and how you have captured your family's memories. This is definitely something I've got to get better at not worrying about everything being perfect all the time!!
I love this! Thank you for sharing! I would love to hear more about how you do your family year books. I always have such a hard time putting them together and feel like it takes forever!
I'll share I do it!
Awesome, thank you SO much x
Thanks for watching!
Love it!!!! I need to start separating my professional and personal photos both in cards and in hard drives. I think that tip would make printing way less overwhelming!!!
May I ask where you get your family yearbooks printed?
Yes I print them through BLURB.COM
@@KatelynJames Thank you!!! :)
I live in Washington State but I have family in Virginia, and have visited. I have been on that drop tower in King's Dominion! Loved the video SO MUCH, thank you.
Very cool!
Love it!!!
Thanks so much!
Very very high quality videos. Cant really tell is there anything obvious that you could improve. Keep the great work and wait for the success. Chears!
Thanks!
Thank you for your super helpful videos?
You're very welcome!
I'm loving this Family Legacy Series! Thank you for taking the time to go into detail about how you preserve your family in such a special way. It is inspiring and motivating for me to do the same! Also, thank you for including that bonus question! I was literally wondering that the entire video, so I appreciate you taking the time to talk about when enough is enough. I'm also really looking forward to creating a family album. May I ask when you take the time to do it? It seems a bit overwhelming with how busy life is.
I normally work on it in the evenings during December.
Thanks for the point about daring to take less-than-perfect photos. Some of the most famous news photographs are "substandard", thinking of the shot of Robert F. Kennedy on the floor of the kitchen after assassination 1968, with busboy.
Just letting you know those UV or sky filters can leave like a white or gray circle when shooting backlight even if its like high noon. It's just badd light bouncing back. I use to use filters all the time but decided to remove them once I found out it was making those weird white or gray circles. Sometimes landscape photographers talk about this.
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful tips! My goal is to begin creating albums again. I have about 40 so far covering 26 years of marriage and kids but stopped when life got super busy with highschool kids heading to college. With one child left at home, I want to make scrapbooking a priority again. Thanks for the inspiration.
You can do it!
Thank you Katelyn ! Love all of these tips ... you’re amazing and I’m grateful for your videos !!
You are so welcome!
I think a yearly video would be awesome of events that happened throughout the year. I just don’t know enough about videography!
We need help in this area as well!
Courtney Holmes on creative live is a great video resource! Her class is worth it.
thank you. I think for my first goal is to organize my pictures and have our very first photo book. Separate my SD cards for family use only and one for my hobby. Thank you for the tips.
You can do it!
Where do you make your album cover? Also any tips for photographing older children in every day life? Thanks Katelyn, I love this series because I love documenting my family, I just never thought of doing a yearbook album.
Maria I think for older kids, an actual activity might make taking their photos seem more natural instead of just capturing them being silly. Like “oh you’re going to put on a dress up show?! Let me get my camera!” Instead of just capturing giggling toddlers! I make the cover in Indesign!
I absolutely love this video. It speaks to my heart. Thank you for not being afraid of this kind of content.
One day id love to be as organized and awesome as you are and have family albums every year! How did you start that?
You are so welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!
Love this series. I have 10 years worth of family photos that I need to put into year books!!
You can do it!
I've just gotten in the habit of grabbing my flash too whenever I'm shooting in my house. I live in a very dark cabin with everything just... Dark. Thankfully I do have a white ceiling and I feel so much better about my images by just grabbing it quickly.
The white ceilings should be a life saver!
Loving this series! Excited to find a home for my camera tomorrow. I do take pictures of my kids, but not nearly as much as I would like. Thanks for the tips!
You are so welcome!
Love love LOVE this!! I'm definitely one who has made it to complicated. I like the idea of having a home for my camera. I'm excited to apply your tips and start really documenting my family.
You are so welcome!
Great Tips KJ but it case basis situation. I can't get my camera out on the open due to my two toddlers has special needs .:( They break everything and can't grasp simple explanations and negative words. I am a single mother with no family around so it is hard.. But love all the tips you share. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this!
Thanks for watching!
Wowww these are amazing tips and true many wont follow it... myself and friends locked their camera in wardrobe :D. Note: I don't own the DSLR but have point and shoot but owning one FX dslr sooner....
Thanks for watching!
I love your channel, you guys are inspiring gracias
Thanks for watching!
If I'm not working I just use my iPhone. LOL. But I would recommend maybe trying even a smaller mirrorless camera even with the basic kit lens if your not going for bokeh. If you use DXO PhotoLab 4 Deep Prime or DXO PureRaw Deep Prime you get two stops of noise reduction. Trust me when I say this DXO Deep Prime is ground breaking noise reduction. I will say this I like DXO PhotoLab 4 better then PureRaw because I can turn off sharpening. But their sharpening is very nice with lower ISO has a 3D look almost.
Thanks for sharing!
This is an awesome video!! Especially the last tip! I am sure this will be helpful during travels too, know what you need and be done when you get that.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for more helpful information! We appreciate you so much! 💕
Glad it was helpful!
Where I can purchase the photo album? I love it! Thank you for sharing these wonderful tips! I so new at taking photos. I only have A Rebel T7 but I can’t wait to learn all I can.
We get ours from blurb books!
Such good tips!!! I'm definitely gonna find a place for my camera to live downstairs and are main living area, There are so many times I miss a moment because I had to run upstairs to the office to grab my camera. I love your family your book idea and talk to my husband last year about wanting to start it this coming year!
You got this!
Thank you so much for this series! I'm curious to learn more about your yearbook, the site you use, whether you can upload both DSLR pictures and phone pictures and whether you can use photoshop elements in place of lightroom (I haven't made the switch yet). Looking forward to the next one ❤
We use blurb books and design in Smart Albums. I edit photos in lightroom
Hi Katelyn, thanks for your wonderful gift sharing your story and photography knowledge. I watched your video of having camera ready and in it's spot. Can you share what you set your camera on for photographing kids in the home? Auto focus? Manual focus? Settings?
Thanks
Wilma
Glad it was helpful! We always use auto focus and manual settings. It really depends on the room and time of day.
This makes so much sense. Thank you. I would love to make photo books, but I can't decide what company to use or what type of book to make (lay-flat) etc, so nothing is getting done. Ugh.
You can do it!
Thank you so much for this. This is a struggle for me. 😔
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for all the information. It is so useful and so true.
You are so welcome!
I am doing a wedding shoot inside a aquarium setting soon. No flash allowed due to the fish sensitivity. I am very nervous about the poor lighting. Have some led lights. Have you any suggestions ?
I have never dealt with that! Wish I could be more help!!
Love this series.. thank you so much.. you inspire me.
You are so welcome!
You’ve inspired me to create family yearbooks! I use Chatbooks but I want big family yearbooks as well! I’ve put together my yearbooks now I just have to buy them! Haha
You can do it!
Thank you fir a great video and some great tips. Definitely going to put this into practice in our home. One question... How do you make sure that you're in the family albums as welll?
It has been years of training my husband to ask to take pictures of me! It is a struggle!
This video has been so helpful!!
Glad it was helpful!
Do you shoot on the darker side of the meter or on the lighter side of the meter?
Lighter!
Do you have any tips for organizing /storing images from your phone? How often do you add those to your yearbooks?
I go through and favorite ones that I want in the books
How do you manage to be in the fotos as well? I always take pictures of my husband and my son, but there are rarely fotos with me :( any tips?
I normally have to beg my husband!
Thanks for the great video. I just into photography recently because family video took too much time to make and edit. Video was more important for the 1st 2 years of my son's life. I was able to capture almost every milestone of the 2 yrs. About 105 videos. I now uploaded to a cloud service in an organized file.
With photos, I would love to make a year book to organize my favorite moments. Do you have a tutorial on making a year book?
ruclips.net/video/BwVm1JL6omw/видео.html this may help
@@KatelynJames Thanks for replying back. The video had great tips on the flow of the year book with color arrangements and composition.
I have 2 short questions. Which site do you prefer, Blurb or BookWright? What's the maximum pages you recommend before going into part 2 of the year book? Just like you, I also have a lot of pictures of my family and I might have to do 2 part series.
Love this! I don't have kids but this is helpful to just document us and the dogs! Does Michael grab the camera as well and take pics of you?
I have to ask Michael to take pics of me!
I want to know how to add some sort of context of the images with the stories that were happening at the time but making it timeless still in an album format
I would take vertical detail shots of the items they are playing with to use in the crease of the album. Does that make sense?
Thanks for this video! On your advice I used BLURB for my yearbook and I love it! I'm now busy with the yearbook of 2019. I try to make photo's of the family I live in and love. But your last question helps! It's indeed remembering the moment. I also love to capture the moments when someone did something so we can have a good laugh after it! I've one question: where do you store your camera after you took the photo's?
Thanks for this! You mean where do I keep my camera after using it? Right there on that blue table! It's CONSTANTLY out in the open. I never put it away actually!
@@KatelynJames No, when you go to the theme park!
@@mirthpodcast oh sorry! hahaha Well we have a stroller with a kid in it what never gets left so I just leave it in the diaper bag!
I am wanting to sell my work to businesses etc. I am an i-stock contributor for Getty Images already but I don't feel it is going anywhere. With all the 'No Solicitation Allowed' I struggle with HOW to start the process so businesses can view my work for possible purchase. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Hi Laura! I am not really familiar with this side of the photography industry! I wish I could be more help!
do you prefer using your 35 or 24-70 more assuming lighting is not an issue?
For family around the house the 24-70!
Katelyn James thank you!! 🥰
What size cards do you use for weddings?
We have started using 64gb card!
My goal is to make at least one family yearbook and would love you to touch more on that. How many you make Per year?
I also need to shoot more often the tiny details of life.
We only make 1 per year
Hey Katelyn, I know this is TOTALLY unrelated to this video, but I wondering if you could do a video on how you back up your files? I am a photographer, and I back up to cloud storage, I don't erase anything off my memory cards until it's delivered, but I'd like a more secure way. Especially on the way home from a wedding! I don't have cameras with two card slots, so I was wondering what suggestions you might have? Anyway, your videos are WONDERFUL! I love your precious family!
hi Hannah! I do love the double card slots. It's given me SO much peace about my backups! However, I have a portable hard drive that I have Michael upload to DURING the reception so that I can see if any files are corrupt before I leave for the night. This allows me to leave the wedding with almost every image duplicated and in two separate places. I also (just like you, use my cards as a triple backup until the gallery is delivered! Then we move our client's folder (of unedited, culled and edited images) to a DROBO backup system in our office!
I need to find a way to get all of my photos organized. I have college and high school kids with YEARS of pictures on various old hard drives as well as printed ones in boxes and scrapbooks. I have a hard time doing it because it’s overwhelming and I’m not sure who to do that.
We can help with that in future videos!
Love this video! What is your system for backing up the photos & editing them? Do you load them to computer daily and edit them, or once per month? I need a better system for family photos...1 year behind. ahhhh! Thank you!
It's coming! And one year behind isn't bad at all!
Thank you for giving people tips like these...♥️
I just have a question...
You mentioned lenses but they were Cannon. Thank al not a professional photographer, one day I want to become one by knowing how to deal with my camera to capture the light I see, but by now, I only can ask. My camera is semi-manual and is Nikon, can you tell me what lenses to buy in that brand or I can use the Cannon lenses you suggest here? I mean, do they feet even the cameras are from a different brand? Because my brother-in-law gave me a nice lens and it doesn’t fit my camera for real, my camera doesn’t recognize it so I can’t use it... 😕
Hello! I wish I could help with Nikon lenses, but I am only familiar with Canon products. I am sure there is something comparable to the lenses I recommended, I am just not sure what they are.
Katelyn James thank you anyway...
When taking pictures of sweet family moments, do you ever ask your kids to do anything? (Like, "Smile toward me" or "give them a hug") or is it mostly candid shots?
Some sometimes!! But most of the time, the best images are the ones where they aren't smiling at me! I'll share more on this!
Where do you get your yearbooks printed?!?
Blurb Books!!
Please, most ppl will have rebel camera with kit lens. 50 1.8 will be max.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this! very helpful. A question about storing all the photos on that one SSD - do you make backups of it?
Yes I do!
@@KatelynJames not sure if you have already done a video about it - but would be interested to see what your process of backing up is? (for personal photos)
For professional work i have a triple back up system (2 hard drives + cloud) - but for personal stuff i wonder if this is overkill.
Where did you have that photo book printed? Do you use Album Stomp? Great video.
We use BLURB! And love it! I design it in SmartAlbums but there are so many options for designing it!
Any tips for capturing older kids that are sick of me and camera (15yrs., 12yrs, & 10yrs)?? lol
shoot them when they aren't paying attention.... offer to capture something they LOVE the most.... friends, playing video games, etc. I have found that the best images are the ones where I didn't try to get them to pay attention to me!
@@KatelynJames thank you!!
Wonderful tips!!! Being a film photographer, I leave my big Pentax out on on the kitchen counter (with a flash) so that I can snap photos the same way! Shooting film forces me to be very intentional about pressing the shutter, I usually take 4-5 images (if it's a big moment) and maybe only 1 or 2 for small stuff. This is Dr. Seuss week, and my 2.5 year old is dressed "wacky tacky" and I grabbed a quick photo of her headed out the door to daycare this morning in her outfit. That's all I need to remember the moment, not a 100 image gallery! I post my images to instagram of my family regularly :-) @jjhorton
Thanks!