Photo Freedom Giveaway.

I have a hard time keeping background distractions out of candid shots.

Photo problems:
No problem taking them! I do that everyday!
Problem 1:
organizing the boxes of negatives that came with my husbands when we got married.
Problem 2:
Tackling the boxes of photos of my pre-digital days.
Problem 3:
Actually scrapbooking these photos (including wedding photos)
I'm doing pretty good with the digital photos but I do think it needs a fine tuning as I've been doing only chronological and think I might also need to divide by subject as well???
Thanks.

Paralyzed by indecision. I mercilessly delete as I go, so I'm not too overwhelmed with photos (300-400 maybe, not including old ones), but since I don't quite know how I'm going to scrap them, I can't bear to print them. There's some cool layouts with 2x2, oh, there's some really cool layouts with 12x12, oh, no, there's those 6x12 layouts I've been wanting to try....I feel like I have to have all the layouts planned in advance, which of course I don't have time to do, so I just haven't printed any in a long time. Julie

Hi. I'm a new visitor to your site and LOVE it and all your creativity!
My biggest photo struggle right now is my confidence and the lack of it in my work. I'm an amateur photographer and would love to do a little side photog business someday but I constantly compare my photos to others and that makes me doubt my abilities.

My biggest struggle is getting a great picture of my daughter smiling while using my Kodac Easy Share camera. Although my husband keeps encouraging me to use a digital camera, I always just miss the moment. I am learning to accept many so- so pictures because if I wait for the "perfect one", life will pass by and she's just too cute at four years old not to get on film. As a mother of four children ages 17, 14, 11 and 4, I know how quickly life does pass by.

My biggest photo challenge would be organizing them on my computer. I have them chronologically and that is it. Sometimes I print and scrap a photo only to discover that I have already done that photo. Although that is okay to do, I would rather have spent that precious time doing a photo that has a story that still needs to be told.
I just want a simple system to organize photos on my computer that is not complicated and takes years to complete! I have two little ones under 3 and time is not something I have a lot of!

My biggest struggle with my photos is the fact that I have such a hard time deleting any. I take tons and tons of pictures, feel like I can't delete any of them because they are of my precious child, and then I don't get them scrapbooked because I couldn't make a decision on which ones to use. It's a terrible cycle I've gotten myself into!

Hi Ali,
I am sending with this note a ton of our Phoenix sunshine. (In return, would you mind sending a bit of your rain? Wink.) As for my photo challenge, I am a former 35mm photographer, turned digital who wants to return to SLR for more control. Or possibly I need to dive into my digital camera's manual to learn some new tricks? I am also in HUGE need of learning how to use the organizational tools in Adobe Photoshop.
Thanks for the inspiration!
:)Paula

My biggest struggle is organizing them. That and getting htem printed. Since digital I am not good about always getting them developed and when I do I should be dating them and putting some in albums but I don't. I have been wanting to organize my photos for a while now but always put it off.
Tania

My biggest struggle is that I have so many picutures that Iam not sure exactly how I should organize them, chronologically? by theme event?? Iam not sure.. I just file them as things happen..Of course Iam always playing catch up and I'm ok with that part of it. I wish I could just write down some notes beside each photo, but then I guess thats what scrapbooking is for.

My biggest problem is organizing the photos.
a) which to scrap from older pictures
b) how to save and store all the digital pictures
c) system to make these digital photos available to file and scrapbook.
I am overwhelmed, and since I have so many digital pictures, I just don't know what to do with them all.
HELP:) Jess

My biggest issues? I take to many photos, I don't organize them beyond the date (no tags) and I feel like I can't print anything without processing them.

My biggest photo struggle is cross referencing the photos I have taken and keeping track of the. Ihave a ton of photos, and I am in the process of organizing them and then scrapping them, but keeping track of them is not my strength!
(great challenge--thinking about this, that is!)

I struggle with wanting to scrap every picture. I have a hard time not using all the pictures that I take. I want to fully tell my stories not just scrap one cute pic on a page.

My biggest photo struggle is looking at the huge pile of pictures and feeling like I am so behind scrapbooking that I will never be caught up...But, I am trying to work on that! I have read your new book and it is helping me to think of those piles as potentional and not a drudgery! Thanks Ali!

I would say my biggest struggle is organization. I have TONS of photos, and I have tried to organize, but the process is so UN-FUN. I'd rather be doing anything else. Is there a 12 step program for me?

NOT taking pictures because I'm too much of a perfectionist. If the girl's hair is all messy, or if the boy's shirt has a ketchup stain, or the house doesn't look like something out of a Pottery Barn catalog...if everything isn't *just so* I don't take the picture. This is especially sad since it's hard to scrapbook photos you don't have. :(

Hmmmm... so many photo struggles but I guess picking the ones that really speak to me and how I want to use them in a layout.

my biggest struggle when it comes to photos? trying to decide the best way to organize them. Should I do them by date? by event? by category/type? Right now, I organize mine by date, but i'm thinking there's gotta be a better way.

My biggest problem is lighting. I recently bought a photo tent to try to help...that remains to be seen!