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!