Photo Freedom Giveaway.

My biggest challenges are lighting of pictures and organization of digital photos.
Thanks! Karen U

My biggest photo issues are organizational in nature. I take an awesome photo and should feel great about it right? Wrong, because now I need to get that image off the camera, onto the computer, and printed onto photo paper. That is the easy part. Now where do I put that image? Into a file on my computer? Where should the file be kept? I started out placing the images on discs, so half are on stored on discs and half are not. A sad reality is that often I know what photo I want, but can not seem to easily locate the image. HELP!! If anyone could use a little photo organizing, it is ME.
Thanks Ali,
Timi Forrest

biggest struggle?? How about struggleS!! First, even getting good pictures of my active kids. They move faster than I do . . . so I take 100s of pictures. I'd love to be more creative with my cropping and layouts to display the pictures that tell the story but aren't the greatest pictures!
Oh, and organizing. I do them by date but then I forget themes when I want to scrap a winter layout, I need to guess when it last snowed. I'm just not tagging them very well!

My biggest struggle is being a packrat with my pictures and being afraid to discard the so-so ones.

Lighting. I struggle with it each time but that never stops me from taking a ton of pictures.

My biggest struggle is to take indoor pictures with my point and shoot camera. The flash mode doesn't do the pictures justice and I do not own a tripod (yet).

Where do I start, my inspiration to capture the moments, is WAY ahead of my reality to process, and place in a appropriate way. Lots of great ideas vs. lots of photos to file.Basic organization !!!!!
Thanks for the idea, loved reading I am not alone, Take care.
Beth

My biggest struggle is the learning curve...new to photoing my work, so new to alot of what has been mentioned. Lighting, staging, size, what kind of camera for this type of work...this is just to name a few! Lol. How generous to give this book...Thank you sooo much for the opportunity. Barb Schram

Deleting is my biggest photo struggle. I take a ton of pictures to get just the right shot and very rarely go back to delete the bad ones. They end up taking up a lot of disk space on my computer. I'm about to upgrade my camera to one with more megapixels and I worry that I will overload my computer.
Thanks for this chance.

Oh... I've got LOTS of big problems with photos:
1) Holding on to mediocre photos rather than just deleting them after uploading to my computer
2) Once printed... HOW do I organize them?
3) Storage boxes and more storage boxes: I know I've got rocking photos in there, why can't i find them?!
4) How do you weed down photos to just the ones that tell the story? Why do I need 20 photos from New Year's Eve, when probably 8 would do?
LizzyM
Seattle, WA

My biggest issue is organizing all of my photos from the days, (years & years), taken before I had a digital camera or computer. Right now I just scrap current every day things because the idea of going through 34 years worth of photo albums is just too overwhelming. My mother also has a treasure trove of photos that I would like to do something with but...well you see my problem.

Biggest struggle is to organize them enough to find what I want when I want it. I have them in bins just waiting to be set up so I can really see what I have.
Leanne in CA

My biggest struggle is having too many pictures and no way to organize them within the Picassa that I use. Or maybe there is a way to organize them and I am too busy downloading all of them to figure out what it is. This is just goign to get worse because someone handmedowned my five year old an old Kodak Easy Share. The cat has permanent spotty vision from flashes, I am sure.

My biggest problem is that too many pictures are on my computer and not in albums. I have a hard time deleting them!

My biggest problem is cutting the old photos. I know I can scan and make a copy, but it's time consuming to scan everyone before my digital photos. Thus, I usually just never go back to my old photos to use in scrapbook layouts. And of course, wish I had more time to devote to the process.

organizing my digital photos. they are on 2 different computers, multiple cds and i need to get them all together and backed up.

printing. i never print them out.
i think my last big batch of photos that i had printed were from...2005?

Hi Ali...first off... I just wanted to say that I find your way of scrapbooking the everyday things in life so liberating and inspiring. Thanks for keeping up with your blog too. It's a joy! :)
So...here's my problem/fear: Learning how to use my camera in the manual mode.

HI!
definitely the biggest challenge for me is finding the time to get them off and print them...
i have great systems for them...just need to print them and I always seem to be out of ink at home.

Close ups. My biggest struggle is how to take a really super, good close up.