He Had His Own Photoshoot And Boy Do I Love Him!

You'll have to bare with me on this post...mainly because there are a lot of photos! There are a lot because they contain my 2 favorite living beings on this planet....My Tom (hubby) & My Lucas (my Lab).

After I was done with my self portraits the other night I invited my buddy Lucas to join in a few shots with me...check us out!:











And by this point it's like he's saying "enough, enough already!"



Then Tom joined in the fun with Lucas:



Converted to B&W:



And then we dangled his favorite rubbery purple toy over his head to get him to take these! And I love them!

Gotta Shoot Something, Right?

Well...it's dark when I leave work so no pictures on the way home for a while.

That leaves indoor shots as my only option for photography at the moment and I haven't decided to set any indoor macros or still lifes up yet.

Today my only photographic opportunity was when I noticed my Lab Lucas playing tug-o-war with his sleep-over pal for this week (my Mom's dog Emma).

I found it humorous that they were fighthing over a giant Shamu! The Shamu is the size of Emma! LOL!



*Of course, photographically, I wish the coat and Marshalls shopping bag were not in the photo but what can you do on a minutes notice. These were just for fun.

Here's my buddy...love those big brown eyes:



And of course I had to get my hubby greeting Lucas and our cute little houseguest when he got home from work:

Portrait Day

I took my mom's portraits today at the local park. We had a great time but the sun was very harsh so a lot of the shots looked good on the LCD until I got home and they had a lot of blown highlights and washed out areas.

I'm going to try to work with them and correct them where I can. The positive about the situation is that my mom had a good time with the shoot so I'm sure she would be up for a re-do anytime.

This is one of my favorites from the day (no editing was done to it at this time):



And this one is edited and I love how it came out...very "mysterious mom." I did some similar to this of my self-portraits down below:



When I got home from taking her portraits I decided to take some self portraits in my backyard.

The sun was SO bright (even at 5pm) that it washed out a lot of my face in the shots.

So I tried to salvage them. I converted a lot of the colored ones to B&W and then I was playing with the levels and decided to go really dark on some of them and ended up with this effect which I like a lot





To view the rest of my self-portraits click HERE.

Couldn't help taking a portrait of *Lucas* :)



More of my "people & portrait" photography can be seen HERE.

Practiced Panning & Stop Action Today

With the help of some friends I got an idea of settings I should be using to take stop action and panning shots of my dog Lucas today (September 4, 2007). I asked for help because the shots I took on Monday came out terrible.

The settings I was given really helped and I got some really good results compared to Monday. At the end of the session I had a lot of shots and a tired pup.



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To see more from this practice session today click here.

A favorite shot from Monday's panning & stop action practice:

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