Smiles and Giggles

A few more edits of the Communion Shoot...What great & fun experience!

These are the last of the "communion related" photos from: this shoot.

I have other shots of the kids (casual) and some with mom from this session to edit later and they where a lot of fun to take as well!!

She's sooo cute! Who could resist taking a million photos of her - especially w/ those blue eyes and adorable smile!





And look at those brown eyes!



Great moment!



She finally warmed up to the camera:








And would could resist a twirl for the camera!



And a silly one when you just can't think of any more poses!

Sisterhood

How do people make it through life without a sister?

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When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.

Sisters are blossoms in the garden of life.

It was nice growing up with someone like you - someone to lean on, someone to count on... someone to tell on!




Sisterhood is powerful.



Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.



A sister shares childhood memories and grown-up dreams.



Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring - quite often the hard way.



MORE from this communion shoot posted HERE.

More of "Baby's 1st Christmas"

This turned out to be the best gift I could give to my friend...portraits of her baby who is a little over 6 weeks now.

As you can see the new muslin backdrop worked really well!

I spent all night and all of today editing this particular portrait shoot (of course with lots of distractions LOL!)

I think my friend is going to use of the first few for her Christmas card. I can't wait to hear what she picks out.







And don't forget my favorite shot that I shared in yesterday's post (Dec 1st)

With Mommy:





I have lots more non-Christmas shots that I will hopefully post soon!

The entire gallery can be seen HERE. (There are many unedited shots there that I haven't worked on yet. I just dumped the whole session so my friend could choose which she'd like.

Baby Eric!

Today was baby Eric's photoshoot and it went very well. Between cries I think we got some really great holiday themed photos.

The fabric worked out really well once we found a way to rig up. We used a very large armoir that holds the TV in the family room. We shut the doors and hung the material on top of the TV stand with heavy free weights.

I need to get some kind of stand evenutally if I am to keep doing this kind of thing. We put a folded blanket under the muslin that came down across the floor so the baby would be lying on it. Then we used his boppy for the ones where we didn't have something to prop under his arms (like the stocking, etc).

I had to lay on my stomach in front of him to take the photos straight on. So, the only thing I might try next time is putting him on a table and hanging the backdrop behind him so I can sit on a chair in front of him to shoot the shots. I got tired getting up and down from a laying down position every time I wanted to adjust something but you live and learn!

Next time I do back at the end of December we are going to try different things so it will all be practice.

The only thing I noticed about the muslin is that it atracts every pieces of lint but then again what material doesn't? At least I heard it's easy to wash...but I guess everytime I wash it I have to IRON IT!!! By the way...I had to iron it! It took quite a while but I was worried the creases would show. Now I'm not so sure the creases would have even shown with the way I only lit the scene with a couple overhead recessed lights and the flash with the Gary Fong Lightsphere (with the white cap over it).

I think I should have bumped up the dimmer on the over head lights because I'm finding the unedit versions very dark and I need to boost the brightness on them.

I'm uploading the unedited originals and when they load my friend is going to pick out the ones she likes most so I can edit those first (that way she can order her Holiday Cards).

Then I will slowy work on my favorites of the day doing the usual assortments of treatments, etc.

My favorite are the ones where he is lying on the towels over the laundry basket - they are soooo cute! Julie thought this was the cutest picture and I must say I agree - it's one of my other favorites of the day:

Time With Friends

I spent some time with friends from college today. It was nice getting to see everyone.

Of course I brought my camera with me...and had to snap a few shots of my friends little girl...

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Busy Editing

I've spent the evening editing...still have a lot more to go on this portrait photoshoot and it hasn't been going as quickly as I want. There are too many distractions at the PC. I get lost reading and researching things I want to try and then I realized after 2 hours I've hardly edited any of what I wanted.

A couple favorites from tonight's editing (Click each photo to view larger):