Emily 3 Year Portraits

Erin, let me know if there is anything you'd like to see different or tweaked. We can swap things around, move them, change them, remove them, and add them. Or you know, I won't mind if you think they are all awesome as is and order 25 of each.

Guinea Pigs

Lucky for me I have children of my own to be my guinea pigs. Pretty soon I am going to be embarking on my first all flash/lights photos shoot. I've always either preferred or relied on natural light, or at the least had it as back-up. I don't really have the best equipment for that kind of shoot, and I can't really acquire those kinds of lights till I upgrade my camera. I know I can do it with what I have though, so I decided to get a first trial run in today since the kids were in a good mood. For Josh you should note that good mood did not extend to portrait taking. For him I tried not using the flash and just the studio lights, but everything was slightly blurry and I didn't like how he was lit in most of them. Penny I tried several different arrangements, and I definitely think we have something we can work with. That morning I'll steal Penny to be my little guinea pig again, and make sure my flash is stocked with fresh batteries. I just had to share a few cute and funny ones.

Care Bear Header

Because what better for a header for my kids than them as Care Bears beating cancer with a Care Bear Stare, Penny even helped make it.

Josh 2 Year Photos

Happy 2 Joshman!

Ella 6 Month Parent Change Requests

Ella 6 Month

Cousins

Josh wasn't so much in the mood, we're lucky we got this. Not too bad for our first all cousins group photo.

Brownie Xmas

My Aunt and her husband have been Browns Season Pass Holders to the Dawg Pound for, well, forever. How can you resist taking a crack at a holiday card like this one? If you aren't into Santa Hats, there's always the less adulterated version below.


If you like it Linda there is some final tweaking I'll do like clearing out the background of your photo from under Denny, but this is what it would look like for the most part unless you have any suggestions/preferences or wording changes. I know it wasn't what you necessarily had in mind and it's not what I was originally going for either, it just sort of came together this way.

Oooo New Toys

Look upon it with awe. New toys are on their way to my house. Somebody got to stalk a bit of ebay action today and got herself some new toys. Thank you to all of you who contributed donations to the new equipment fund and to my hubby for my birthday present! I know a real white backdrop people, not some sheets over my rickety upended table. Yes your child can now actually stand without me spending hours in photo shop putting white behind their head. Why you could even get in the photo with them, I know we're talking some crazy talk now! And with some basic lights now I hopefully won't have to be a total slave to sunny days to light the photos! And yup, that's a black backdrop too, I know it's getting all fancy now! I do "heart" ebay, got this from a photo equipment supplier for about a third of the market price, woot! Oh and you know I'll be playing with it when it arrives.

Now, what to set my sights on next for the donations equipment fund? Hmmm, so many choices!

Don't Let Me Near Your Blog

Need a new Blog Header? Be careful asking me to do it, especially when I've spent a week in the hospital watching Care Bears 24 hours a day, and the source of my inspiration was an e-card you sent out last year of your family's heads mocked onto dancing elves. Oh and the crayon work, that's all me, 30+ years of skills there people. Or you know, you may want to give me some guidelines, like a "nice" header not an "Elmo's World gone astray" header, or simply: please don't use crayons and paste my family's heads onto your own drawings. Your laughing, you just don't want to admit it. I'll make them another one later, and stop it, I won't just replace the heads, I'll make them an all new one, I promise.

See it on their blog here. Friends let friends make them bizarre headers and actually post it to their blog.

Madison 3 Year Corrections

These two were hard to read the names on, I hope these are a little easier to read guys, let me know.