A little Help

Hi Chicky’s I need some help! I just bought this BEAUTIFUL little chair on Craig’s List, for SUPER cheap and I want to paint it, I just don’t know what color to go with here are a few of my ‘thoughts’ a limeish green like this one

http://www.justacrushphotography.com/new-photography-chair-prop/

in fact that chair is MY CHAIR… that chair looks exactly like mine except mine is still wood.

Or I thought a nice blue, like the one on my personal blog… the color of the boys' shirts at the very top of the blog

Or white… but with some crackle paint or glazing

Or Red, mostly because I like red

I kind of want it to be UNisex but at the same time I don’t really care, it HAS to be good for boys though.

Any insights you have would be appreciated, Thanks

A Fun Before and After

I think I am a tad obsessed with getting this shot right, and I think I finally have caught it to my satisfaction! Did I tell you girls that I am saving up for a new camera?! I am so bummed about how long it is taking. I have always been good at saving, but with no ‘real’ income coming in it has been SO long and annoying. So if you have any ideas on what I can do, short from selling anything I don’t want to down on the strip I am open for suggestions! ha ha! Love you girlies!

Guilty....

Kash- I apologized I haven't been able to blog on this...life as a teacher doesn't always seem to leave you with alot of free time. Not to worry because School is OUT! Wahoo!! Another year of teaching over and done with! So I have a shoot coming up, a family shoot. Its for a lady at school...its her family, so older kids and then adults. Any suggestions on some fun things to do with them?

Break

I have been dealing with cute, adorable children all day, and when they were sleeping or not paying attention to me I took a few minutes to edit. I have mixed feelings about editing, a part of me wants to be a good enough photographer that I don’t have to edit, but that would require a lot of work AND I probably could never photograph children, can you imagine? ‘Can you wait right there while I put my camera in Black and White?’

‘oh and now wait while I put it back into color’

oh and now wait while I put this filter on my lens to get this effect’

Whereas I can do pretty close to all of those things at the touch of a button.

Everything I have accomplished this far as a photographer I have done pretty much on my own, ‘self taught’. Well through books, internet and such anyway. I signed up for my very fist photography class last week. I am a bit apprehensive. The reason I haven’t taken any classes before now is because I LOVE taking pictures, I LOVE capturing the memories… I worry if there are assignments or I find something too hard (yes I am a wimp) it make take away some of my love for the hobby that I so adore.

Well there are my ramblings about that for the night

this is a super cool website!

www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/paris.htm

Best Picture of the Day

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/88qVyL/comicadze.com/thumbnails/large_owl_in_a_hat_97131.jpeg

All By Myself!

Ok because I am the only one who EVER writes on here I have decided that this is going to become my own personal photography journal! You guys (if you ever visit) are  MORE than welcome to post any time you want!

So I woke up (one of the many times) with Baby K last night and I was going over how frustrated I was over the recent photo shoot I did. The shoot was outside (which always scares me to begin with)and NONE of the pictures were in sharp focus! I have NO idea why. I have the same lens that I used on the shoot two days before that and the pictures were crystal clear! What is with that!? To make me fret even more, I have a shoot tomorrow with actual paying customers and I am fretting big time! I want them to be perfect… even if they are only perfect according to me! I want them to be in focus, crystal clear focus. Up until now the only shoots I have ever done have been for friends or family. If you don’t do a good job for them, they still love you. I don’t know this person so I am fretting a lot!

So ya, there we go, now I feel better because it is all written out!

SHHHHH don’t tell Santa

Ok a package came in the mail on Friday and I didn’t have a clue what it was so I opened it, when I saw what was inside I couldn’t help but take it out and play with one of them for a bit… Don’t tell Santa but I am going to be one happy girl come Christmas morning!

(the soft box, not the speed light flash, I already had that)

Kashina’s Rant

Ok I have a serious question for you gals… Does it drive you crazy when you have spent HOURS making something look right in a picture on your computer and THEN when you print the picture it doesn’t look anything like it did on your computer? OR even you look at the picture you spent hours working on, on someone else’s computer and it looks horrible on the other computer? Drive me crazy?!

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/photo.php?fbid=10150097180436999&set=a.380223946998.202918.380177376998

Go to that ‘site’ it is on facebook, does that picture look yellow to you on your computer or is it just me? I am sure that person spent time and energy making that picture look fabulous on their own computer, yet on mine it looks like crap! So would you PLEASE let me know when you see a flaw on one of my pictures, chances are I can’t see it on my own computer!

Ok now that my rant is over!!! How are you guys doing with your picture needs/wants/abilities? I am asking Santa for a better lighting system for Christmas, but I don’t know which one to get any ideas? It can’t be too expensive, Santa is a stinge when he is in Dental School :-)

Also, go check out my site I just put up a new family session, aren’t they cute? The middle child didn’t want to be there, but I don’t think most boys like getting their picture taken… truth be known I don’t much like getting my picture taken, I just like memories and my mind on its own doesn’t remember like a camera does.

I hope you guys are doing wonderfully… we need to have another assignment or something we can work on in our different parts of the world to bring us together a bit more… I am working on a few photography props for the new baby, if they EVER get done I will post some pictures of them!

Loves

K

Senior Shoot

So I had the opportunity to take some pictures of my friend's son Zack. This is Zack. He is a senior this year at Hillcrest Highschool here in good ol Ammon. Which mind you we are currently sitting under like 5 inches of snow and it just keeps coming. Anyway...we took these seriously on Tuesday...and it snowed Sunday...UGH. Well while playing with these pictures...I played with the program, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. If you have never played with that before you should!!! It is a program where you can create a set of pre-made adjustments called a "preset". Then when you upload your photos, this program automatically applies those adjustments to your photos! Fabulous. If you haven't played with it...write me a post and I will show you where to get your free trial and lots of tutorials! Enjoy some of the pics!

Deana!

Some Fall Family Pictures!

Hey Ladies!
Well, my calender has been pretty busy, but I finally have had some fun photo shoots. I have taken pictures for one family (below) have a date to take some of another family tomorrow, and have another in the works. Not to mention a friend who is due to have a sweet little boy any day now, and I'm in charge of his birth announcement pics. I think I could get used to this! I love it, it's too much fun! So enjoy the pictures, and feel free to check out the rest of them on my blog! Happy Fall to you all!

Raspberry Fun!

Hey Pretty Ladies! How are you girls doing? I have been a slacker when it comes to this blog! Raspberries went on sale a week ago at one of the grocery stores I shop at so ofcourse I had to stock up! They were so cute I had to get a few close ups!

 

Loves!

Do 3 year olds ever look at the camera?

Hello Ladies!
  I had the opportunity to take pictures of one of my colleagues little ones this week. She is such a cute kid, but would NEVER look at my camera. I bribed her with cookies, flowers, puppies, you name it! So here are some of the ones I took, any suggestions let me know! Hope you are having fun with your cameras! I wish I had more time, maybe after this whole wedding thing I will! He he he!

It was a dark and stormy night…

… ok maybe it wasn’t totally dark, nor a very stormy night but I still felt like I was in a horror movie! Two days ago, while trying to back up my computer onto my hard drive I did something wrong and LOST everything on my hard drive. I started freaking out, and Todd (my computer guru) wasn’t going to be home for six hours! I was pacing, I couldn’t breath, and every once and a while I would scream, Todd was in exams all day so I couldn’t even ‘chat’ with him on gchat. It had years of my journals, and over a year and a half of pictures and six months of pictures that I hadn’t ‘gotten around’ to backing up onto CD’s yet, I thought I was going to die. Poor C didn’t know what to think. When my Todd got home and took a look at it, turned out I hadn’t even hooked up the hard drive, I had tried to down load my computer to my computer and there wasn’t enough space for it, lol! Needless to say I stole away to the back room and thanked my Heavenly Father with huge sobs.

On to happier things Congrats to Deana and Anna who survived another year of educating young minds, now you can pick up your cameras and shoot everything in sight!

The next assignment I wanted to do was a picture of Spring. It can be anything. I have always loved spring, the snow is finally gone (hopefully) and there are signs of new life everywhere. Out on the farm, there were hundreds of baby calves kicking and playing with each other… almost makes me miss the farm… almost :-)

I don’t know if I already posted this but here is a picture I would have lost and I really like it.

 

PS Jane for us that live in Vegas and Summer is all but here, take a picture of something that can be either Spring or Summer

Some of My Favorite Colors

With the desert being in spring bloom, it was nice to see a few flowers with some of my favorite colors!

 

Okay, so here are my pictures. I haven't edited them at all, so you all get to see the ugly chips on my kitchen table.

I really enjoyed this assignment. It helped me understand depth of field better. Exposure is such a confusing thing to me, but playing around in manual mode helped me.

I also loved thinking about color. I had to include the pictures of the M&M's I used, because they have GREAT color, and were delicious too. The last one standing was the red one, and that's my favorite color.

I also have a few flower pictures that I took recently that I may add on in the next day or two.

ISO 400 1/60 f3.5

ISO 400 1/50 f3.2

ISO 400 1/60 f4.5

ISO 400 1/60 f3.2

Thanks for the fun assignment Kash!

New Assignment

Ok I actually have THREE new assignments, but the first two are for your benefit. If you want you can post them, but you don’t have to. The third I totally want posted.

The first assignment has to do with aperture. If you have already done this before than do worry about it. Put your camera in manual mode and set the shutter speed to any speed you want, I suggest around 1/60 or 1/80 but it doesn’t really matter. Then set up a few items at different distances from you… I used M&Ms and I sat them along the counter going away from me when I did it. Then start at your lowest aperture setting and take a picture at each aperture, then compare your pictures and what is in focus when.

The second assignment is just the opposite. Put your camera in manual mode again (I suggest doing this one outside). Set one aperture size, I suggest around 7 to 14, and then start at the highest shutter speed and take a picture at each speed until you get to one second.

The third assignment (the one I want posted), is to take a pictures of colors… either your favorite color, or just a color that caught your eye, it can be abstract or not. Whatever you would like really. Try if you can to fill as much of the frame as possible with the color.

And that’s about it! Thanks girls!

PS I am going to Canada for a couple of weeks and my parents don’t have internet… seriously they are nearly hobbit people… so I might not be able to post until I get back, but I will see what I can do!

 

Loves

~K~

Hi guys!  My name is Jane, and I'm really excited to be a member of your little group.  :-)

I'm really impressed (and intimidated) by all the pictures you guys have posted!  I have to say that I'm just barely learning about photography.  I have a little point and shoot cannon camera, and have always just used it in auto mode.  I've always wanted to learn more about photography though, but it's just seemed too complicated.

Luckily though, I met Kashina, and she has inspired me to learn more about it.  So I'm just slowly learning about things like aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and depth of field.

I'm excited to have little "assignments" that will hopefully help me to learn more and practice with my camera.

Just please don't laugh at my pictures.  :-)  

Yeah! A New Member!

Hi Girls we have a new member and I am so excited! She has been checking out photography books from the library, and buying photoshop actions, I think she is hooked! Plus I think she is wonderful so that makes me even more excited! I will let her introduce herself and then tomorrow night I will post a new assignment! Yay!

Loves and Huggles
~K~

Prindle and Graham Sitting in a Tree...

Hey Deana, I thought I would put a few more of your pics on this site as well. The ones with your hair in your face there was nothing I could do. Maybe some one with some mad skills could and you are MORE than welcome to give the pics to some one to try it out.

Ok I know this one isn't you guys... but how cute is he?

As Corbyn would say "awwwwwww... so Q" (cute)

This one is on the other site in color, I did the select color thing you like on this one. If you want to use this one I can do a better job on it. (like bumb up the color and define the lines a bit better) letta me knowa!

Ok I am off to bed! Loves and Huggles girls... OH and as always, any positive criticism (and not on my spelling ;-) is always welcome!

Kiddo Pics

Hey Ladies, here are a few of the pictures I took this weekend of a friend's kids! Enjoy, if you want to see some of the others check out my blog!