Just some more Peace!

Hmmm... This is from a long time ago, but it seems I never published it..... But I did, but it is gone now. I am SO confused. One day I will get all this blogging stuff down.

This one didn't quite turn out as cool as it was in my head. I can't put my finger on why though. Maybe I should have used a flash to make their bodies darker and separate the feet more? Hmmm... Don't know...

Bounce Flash!

My beautiful girl! I was just playing around with bouncing flash off of my front door. Just thought I would share!

Today I learned....

Today I worked on using fill flash in the bright sunshine. Usually if you are shooting in the bright sunshine, they tell you to put the sun at the subjects back and meter for the subject. Using that method you have a nice back lit halo around the subject, no harsh shadows on the face, but the sky is completely blown (white without detail). If you use a flash, you meter for the sky to get that beautiful and then the flash compensates on your subject. My flash technique still needs some work, I need to figure out the settings for the flash and the best distance from the subject, but look at the difference. Isn't that cool! I am such a nerd. Now... the new hip thing is the pocket wizard. It is a transmitter so that I could have my flash off my camera and still get it to fire. That would give me more natural looking light.

Another day of Peace...

The whole week is peace. So I had to come up with another peace picture.

But getting out the face paints was anything but peaceful!

So far to go...

I am feeling like I have so far to go. The more I learn the less happy I am with my current body of work. How fair is that? Anyway... One of the forums I frequent's current weekly theme is Peace. I am amittedly a wee bit sarcastic as can be seen with my submission today that I titled World Peas!

Just a quick pic...

Just a crazy Monday around here! I just took this picture of the baby yesterday. Today I played with one of the several different ways to convert it to black and white. Tomorrow I am wither going to see tulips and take pictures there or accosting a friends child to practice on. :)

The light on the stairs

Our stair case of all places get great light in the morning. The baby and I played on the stairs this morning...

I LOVE her expression and her sideways pacifier...