Why is it important to do things right from the beginning?

Because later after a wedding shoot and you have over 700 images to sort through... you don't want to have to fix every image later! LOL!

I have been asked a lot lately how to control the Depth of Field in your photos and how to create a nice "Bokeh" (blurry) background. A lot has to do with aperature and also the type of lens you are using. Here is an image taken yesterday during a wedding ceremony. This image was left untouched by photoshop... straight out of the camera.
I used my Nikon D80   ~   Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens   ~   ISO set to 800   ~    focus was on the diamonds

Here is the image after I did a noise reduction in photoshop and then sharpened only the rings. I then did a soft focus on the image. Not a big difference.

Now here I used some textures that I got from http://www.lovethatshot.com/. I used the Verona texture and then erased the texture from around the rings so that focus is primarily on the rings.

Very simple edit and took me less then 5 minutes to complete.

Tilt Shift Photography

Quick Tutorial on Tilt Shift Photography... I realized in the end that I probably didn't choose the best photo to do this with, but I didn't want to start over so your stuck with this one!! :D

This is totally fun! It makes things look miniature. I just learned myself how to do this and when I saw how easy it was I wanted to share! All of these were taken in Puerto Vallarta Mexico a few years ago on vacation. I included two others I did the same thing too.

How To Get Larger Pictures On Your Blog

Before you read... remember I am self-taught... I am sure there are other ways to do this that may be easier to do... but this is how I redesigned my blog. Since I am a VISUAL learner and I love pictures (obviously) :D here is a step by step to a new blog with larger photos.

Oh and one more thing... keep in mind this will not fix your past posts. This will only make your photos larger on your future posts... Just letting you know so you don't think it is not working!!!