Portrait Classroom Summer Sale!

The iPhone version of Portrait Classroom is on SALE for just 99 cents through July 8, 2012 …

Wishing you could take dreamy portraits of your loved ones? Want to use your fancy digital SLR camera like the pros – or at least take it off green auto mode sometimes?

Join nearly 3,000 others who are learning portrait photography techniques and camera settings through my app Portrait Classroom: Baby and Child Photography Tutorials.

Need a boost to get you started? The iPhone version of Portrait Classroom is on SALE for just 99 cents through July 8, 2012. Prefer the glossy and highly rated iPad version – it is $1.99!

Purchase and view Portrait Classroom in iTunes here:

For iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id385486822?mt=8

For iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id480534706?mt=8

Get out there – it’s summer! (apologies to readers in parts of the world that aren’t having summer now – look on the bright side though, this sale is for you too!)

Enjoy and thanks to all who’ve purchased the app thus far!

~ Kim

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best lens for new portrait photographers

Sharing one of my favorite tips from my Portrait Classroom app today! If you’ve just bought or received a fancy DSLR camera for the holidays there is one additional item you should buy if at all possible. It is a lovely, little lens that creates dreamy portraits and is surprisingly not too expensive. It is the 50mm f1.8 lens!

I am a Canon girl and started with the Canon 50mm f1.8 lens. It sells for about $120 USD. I have since upgraded to their 50mm f1.4 lens for my business but the results with the f1.8 are unbelievable for the price and in most cases all that you will need. Straight out of the box, you will notice dramatic and beautiful results with these “fast”, prime lenses. They allow you to take photos in low light (which is often necessary when you are shooting with natural light and no flash). Secondly, the wide open apertures they allow create beautiful blurred backgrounds behind your subject (also termed “bokeh”). All of the focus, literally, is on your subject when this lens is used at its widest apertures (f1.8, f2, f2.2, etc) which makes for a very dramatic portrait.

Here is B&H’s page for the Canon version of the 50mm 1.8 lens. They also sell the Nikon 50mm 1.8 lens, among others. You can also buy them through Adorama, Amazon, your local camera store and more. The point it – just get one and you’ll be happy you did 🙂 Your portraits will be a lot more professional looking and probably the type of photos you were hoping to get with your fancy new DSLR!

Here is an example of a photo taken with my 50mm lens. With my camera in aperture priority mode, I set the aperture at f2.2. This lens and setting will produce the bokeh / blurred background and sharp subject.

This image is covered in further detail in Tutorial 9 of my app – Portrait Classroom!

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Portrait Classroom app: Baby and Child Photography Tutorials
For iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id385486822?mt=8
For iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id480534706?mt=8

Kim Binfield Photography website

Sneak peek at Portrait Classroom for iPhone [DSLR Photography App]

It truly is, we promise, getting close now! The iPhone version of our app, Portrait Classroom: Baby and Child Photography Tutorials, is nearing completion.

We’re submitting it to Apple soon for approval and then, fingers crossed, once approved it will be available for download on the iTunes app store.

Portrait Classroom for iPhone is very closely based on the successful iPad version. It has all of the same content – the same tutorials, images and text. It is simply configured to fit the iPhone screen. Stay tuned for its debut … a wealth of insider secrets and training, even more compact and ready to take with you on the go!

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Portrait Classroom: Baby and Child Photography Tutorials iPad App available in the iTunes App store here. iPhone App coming soon!

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