Hi everyone. I finally did it and made the move to Typepad. I just didn't want to take any chances with all the "inappropriate" blogs on Blogger. My new home is
It's a sneak peak into a session I had yesterday with my friend Jessica and her beautiful family. We had absolutley perfect weather, and Mitchell was so much fun in front of the camera, and warmed up instantly. He was a little leaf eating machine, too. Gotta love it. We got so many great shots, I'd love to add them all. But I guess this is supposed to be a sneak peak,ha! Jessica and Kyle, thanks so much for such a great session, it was fun!
So on to lesson three... food. Our assignment this week was to be any food item, cropped and/or showing a different perspective. In typical Halloween fashion, I grabbed the first food item I could find in the house...chocolate!I don't know why I had such a hard time with this week's assigment, I'm the first to admit I have "too much tilt syndrome", and thought it would be a breeze, ha! So an hour and 2 glasses of wine later, I was able to come up with my shots.I've been struggling this week. Must be Libby taking my creativity with her. I hope not, but the chocolate sure was yummy when I was done.
Here's the first - shot with my 50mm 1.4, at f/2.0 1/4096 (my 40D has some crazy shutterspeeds)
The second - switched to the 17-55 2.8, (I feel so trapped in my 1.4 lately) shot at f/5.6, 1/512 +2 exp. comp. I actually like the colors in this one.
And finally - again with my 2.8 for a more wide-angle shot, at f/4.6, 1/790. I like this one, too, just not all the deck stuff in the background, hence the crop.
Cary and Jamie, here's a little peek just for you. What a pleasure it was spending time with you and your sweet, sweet little guy, Jonah. Did I mention I want to kiss those little cheeks as I'm proofing his pictures? And Presley - need I say more? You and your family are truly blessed. Isn't parenthood amazing... Welcome home, and I can't wait to see you in Atlanta!
lesson two...finding the light. Natural light, ambient light, all kinds of light in your home. I searched high and low for the best light at home. The office and upstairs bedroom were too dark, bathroom was too green, and Jillian's room cast a red tint to everything. Upstairs master bedroom was, well too cluttered. So I tried the open door trick and...voila! Beautiful natural light, and a georgous green backdrop. I am in love with the catchlights I got from using this technique, too. Of course, the trickiest part was trying to stop Jillian from crawling out of the front door!
In the first pic, the frontal light was more indirect, coming from a southeastern sky. It was 10am and the sun was still in the Eastern sky, and over the house.Camera was set to AWB, and the early sun is nice and soft, not too flattening. I set to Av mode and a small aperature of f/3.2 since I wasn't going for a lot of depth. 
Amber's exactly right, a Southern sky casts more golden tones. It was right around 5pm and the sun was just starting to peek through the porch. Same lens, focal length 44mm. This time I set at manual mode, f/2.8. I changed my shutter speed to 1/256 to draw in more light for their faces. It worked. Oh, and a thanks to Aunt Jess, my baby sis :)
