Photo Freedom Giveaway.

My biggest photo struggle is printing!! I purchased a Nikon D40 this summer and have taken 1000s of pics. I struggle the most with: do I upload to an online printing source, do I buy a printer or do I take them to my local Target? Also, what should I print 5x7 or create a mosiac or even a short 3-4 picture film strip. So many decisions to make with all my creative life artist juices. I'm raising my hand for you to pick me! Please, pretty please! :)

My biggest photo struggle is learning how to use the various manual settings on my camera. I really want to learn how to shoot in low light, etc. I'd also like to learn more about how to manipulate pictures on my camera.
Rinda

My biggest struggle is throwing away a bad photo instead of holding onto it just so it can sit in a drawer :P

My biggest photo struggle is which pictures to use. Sometimes I take so many pictures and want to cram them all on a page instead of just picking a couple...
That new book looks awesome!

Gosh, biggest photo struggle? Hmmmmmmmm...
Every struggle means an opportunity to learn and grow right? So, right now I am taking the opportunity to learn how to use my new Nikon DX40.
I must say, I am loving every struggle and learning a lot!

My biggest photo struggle is which pictures to use. Sometimes I take so many pictures and want to cram them all on a page instead of just picking a couple...
That new book looks awesome!

Biggest photo struggle is with sports photos....take 200 and maybe 1 is good....not blurry, not bad lighting....good shot of the action.....guess that's the goodness of digital.

oh my...I probably don't have a chance at all. Anyway, love your work, Ali and your blog is the first I visit everyday. My biggest photo struggle...so many but I suppose just learning to use my camera to it's fullest potential. So most of the time it's just point and shoot without giving a thought to changing any of the settings. 2nd would be taking so many pics, struggling with which ones to keep and what to discard. sigh

biggest challenge....overwhelming number of photos on my computer and ridiculous sentimental attachment to ALL of them ("can't delete THAT one, I might want a PIECE of it someday!")...this book will help, yeah?!?!?!
THANKS! Lindsay

Finding a way to organize the random photos that I don't want to put in an album but I don't want to get disregard either. The photos that are our small slices of life like two photos of girl's night out or three photos of my husband's latest sports craze. All meaningful, all photos that I want to keep but can't really justify putting on a page. After all, girls night out doesn't fit well into my daughter's preschool album, my son's soccer book, my family's vaction journal....etc. ;-)

My biggest problem is that I take WAY TOO MANY and just can't delate them once I have uploaded them to my computer. And making sure I copy them all to DVD and write on the DVD as soon as I do it! Very stressed when I know I copied them but can't find the disk because I haven't labeled it. I am getting better but I need a better way for storing these too!
I have loved seeing your photo a day challenge, I was going to do it and missed a few days so I have started a photo a week album to write and about what has been happening, not to much detail just the important everyday stuff that I seem to forget to keep a record of.

Okay, Ioz have a lot of photo struggle but the one that stands out is just downloading and organizing my photos in Iphoto. I have been warned several times not to use Iphoto but while it is easy to click import, looking at the year and dates doesn't really help much. Another thing is storage. What do I do after I import it? Where can I put it after I print it? I'm sure there's other things I can learn about photo storage but another thing I struggle with is the use of Photoshop...am not really tech savvy.:(
Mary

I have a couple, but I think one of my challenges is trying to find a photo for a layout, sometimes it could be printed but not filed. Or it could be that I find I do not have a photo to go with what I want to scrapbook.

I am actually returning from an ten year "scrapping hiatus"...I began scrapbooking in 1998 after my middle daughter was born but I fizzled out pretty quickly. I was overwhelmed with all of the photos from my own childhood and with the collection I was quickly building of my own children...and this was before we started shooting digital! Another burnout point was I didn't know how to organize all the scrapping stuff and the mounting piles of stickers and papers was making scrapping more of a chore than a joy. So, my biggest struggle today is the same as it was in 1998: how to organize all of this "stuff" so I am free to creatively and passionately tell the stories I am dying to tell!

I hate pictures of me. In my mind's eye, I don't look the way I do to the camera. So I hold the camera.
Too many pages of my albums don't have me on them. It's not fair to my children, or their children. Because I look to them the way that I do to the camera, and they love the sight of me.
So it's clear where the distortion truly is. And still, I hold on to the camera.

My biggestest struggle is keeping track of my discs. The system I use now doesn't work. It's not large enough to hold them all in one place.