HeyJaredChasing Joy Through Photography
Photographer, mom and educator. All things gratitude + presence + joy + shooting film
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The gift of perspective (opens the original)
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The other day I walked through my backyard and kept thinking oh my gooossshhhhh I have SO much to clean up… Stressing as I walked through each patch, seeing the areas of weeds and mess overtaking everything…<img alt="" class="sizing-normal
Why your shadows go muddy in low light (opens the original)
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The other day I posted an article on Making Beautiful Photos in Low Light (on Film), and then I got the best question! <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" heigh
Welcoming Baby #3 (opens the original)
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The thing about having kids is, when you have your first, there are so many things you don’t realize are a privilege. Like getting to have alone time with them. (I say this as a mom of 3 kids) Working with parents of multiple kids, I love soooo much…. getting the opportunity to give them permission to not always have to include everyone in every session. Like this family, who I had the pleasure of doing a Fresh 48 hospital session with last year. And though it was their third little one, we spen
Making beautiful photos in low light (on film) (opens the original)
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The other day I had a session with a client whose home is, even on a sunny day, extremely low lit. Which is hard to understand because some of the rooms have bigger windows. And yet I still find my meter telling me to set the shutter speed at 1/30. Scanning through all the photos, I kept marveling at how pretty low light really is. I also laughed to myself, thinking of all the years I spent trying to avoid it.All the times I’ve spent agonizing over a cloudy forecast on a shoot day… Or trying to
The thing I committed my life to making sure families never forget. (opens the original)
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All photos shot on Portra 400 35mm film. One very hot summer day in July, I flew out to Pittsburgh with my camera to help make memories for an Orthodox Jewish family…“Davidi, will you please take a photo of us hugging in our bedroom?” Mom asked throughout the day.But before he could ever answer, the kids would get rowdy and we’d all continue on in distraction to the next thing…<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UoqV!,f_au
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