365 Project: Lines

(smile lines)



The rest of the M siblings

Here are the rest of M & J.   Such sweet kids and absolutely gorgeous!  The camera certainly loves them.

More of the O Sisters

I'm finally starting to catch up on my editing now that I've become a little more comfortable with my new software.  Here are the fabulous O sisters.  E&K are such sweet little ladies and it was a pleasure to spend time with them.  I'm going to do another session with them in October where I hope to get more of little K for her 2nd birthday photos.

Cute little N....

This adorable little boy is the son of a friend.  I got quite a workout during this session chasing this active 3 year old.  He couldn't have been sweeter and catching a glimpse of his stunning eyes was worth the exercise!

365: My favorite things

This week's theme is "My favorite things", here are the first few from this week:

Twins-a-tub

Apple picking

Fresh baked blueberry muffins: 

Spotting a butterfly in my favorite botanical garden

Baby in a basket

Photography & my camera (a picture of my shadow taking a photo with my camera)

First signs of fall and a new location to shoot

Best Cousins

A good friend asked me to take pictures of her daughter and her niece.  These cousins are best friends and are oh so cute!  Here are quick edits of my 3 favorite shots...

The B sisters

This is a session from last night.  I came home so deflated thinking it had gone miserably.  I solely used my 85mm and am having so much trouble adjusting to having so much distance between me & the subject.  With the 35, I am up close & personal and I feel as if I'm having trouble connecting with the 85.  I also stopped down my aperature so that I could work on getting good focus on 2 subjects.  I paid the price with little bokeh, but getting 2 kids in focus is tough and I need to work at this aperature before I can shoot wide open with better results. With fresh eyes this morning, I looked again and decided they weren't so bad and actually quite like a few.  Here are some that I've edited....

Little Miss K

I'm finally catching up on editing my practice sessions....here is one from a few weeks ago with the absolutely adorable K.  I think she is just stunning and has the most exquisite features.  I had a few exposure problems during this session and parts of her dress kept blowing out.  I think I've gotten better with exposure since then and now that I'm shooting RAW, instead of JPEG, exposure is much easier to edit.  As you'll see, I couldn't really do much about it in these images.  Regardless, I feel that it was a good session and was so happy to work with her, and her lovey, "Tiny".