Remember in that last post where I said that "Photoshop is your best friend." No? Then go back and read it again…

Because I totally said that Photoshop is your best friend.

And I said that because:

PHOTOSHOP IS YOUR BEST FRIEND.

All of those things that we're currently learning the ins and outs of- like lighting, composition, etc.- can be faked (we're talking Pamela Anderson faked) with a little PS know-how. The so-so becomes the fabulous (and, no, not the Pamela Anderson kind of fabulous. Perhaps I should have chosen a different sort of comparison, eh?), the dark becomes the light, the dull becomes the bright… And so on and so on and so on.

Don't have any PS know-how?

No worries.

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One of my most beloved bloggers, MommyTime, asked for a little 'how I did that' series on my photography… And as I am loathe to deny her anything, I thought I'd try my hand at it as well as incorporating a few basic web design tutorials to help you do simple things like change the size of your banner space and whatnot.

Please note that this is a "how I did that" series and not necessarily a "how to do that" series.

As I am self-taught/self-teaching, I can almost guarantee that somebody out there has a better method- mayhap a right method- but then that pretty much goes for everything, now doesn't it?

Enjoy.

I thought for my first post in this series, I'd tell you a little about the equipment that I use, why I use it, where to buy it, and how to do it all on a "I've got three kids, two dogs, and a mortgage" budget.

As I am not a professional of any sorts and have no aspirations of becoming one any time soon, my wants and needs are very  different from those who wish to be able to make money from their work and/or the hardcore amateur.

In other words:

I take pictures of my kids.

And my dogs.

And occasionally my naked husband. :)

All I need is the basic stuff that'll do that- and do that well.

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