Monday, October 31, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Trash the Dress
I have been a horrible blogger/updater! Things have been crazy and busy, and fortunately some of the business HAS been photography related! :) I got out of doing my 52 week project, but hopefully I'll get back on track this week. So first up though, I want to share with you a really fun, really great shoot I did with my cousin. She was married almost a year ago, but both she and her husband are in the military and immediately left for different kinds of training. I had talked to her about doing a trash the dress shoot and she was all for it. So when she came back up here we went out as soon as possible (since it was October and getting very COLD!) and even though it was really pretty cold, the bride was such a trooper! She was up for everything I threw at her, she ran along the beach, she climbed through brush, she laid across driftwood--the girl climbed a tree in her wedding dress! It was so fun and I hope we got some shots that she'll love forever.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Week 40
This weeks theme was: A Taste of Vintage
This last Saturday my husband had a "Military Ball" and they wanted everyone to dress up WWII era style. I didn't get any pictures from that night (I know, boo!) but I did still have the hat my mom let me borrow and the gloves which were vintage and the pearl necklace that was my grandma's, so I put them on and got this shot out of it:
I thought about adding this one, I thought it looked like an old time photo (where no one smiles) but I will always pick a photo where I think I look prettier so I went with the first! ;) haha
This last Saturday my husband had a "Military Ball" and they wanted everyone to dress up WWII era style. I didn't get any pictures from that night (I know, boo!) but I did still have the hat my mom let me borrow and the gloves which were vintage and the pearl necklace that was my grandma's, so I put them on and got this shot out of it:
I thought about adding this one, I thought it looked like an old time photo (where no one smiles) but I will always pick a photo where I think I look prettier so I went with the first! ;) haha
Friday, September 30, 2011
One More Entry
Those two pictures I showed you last that I entered for the Pioneer Woman's contest did get chosen as finalists so yay! I wish I'd gotten one of the top spots because I would've won a gift card and hello that would be fantastic! :D I did enter one more that I thought was really fun but I think I entered it too late in the contest for people to really notice it. :)
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Week 39
This week's theme is: Man vs. Nature
I was having the hardest time coming up with something, my first idea was to take a picture of this playground by the ocean we've been helping build this last week. Then I was going through some flickr groups on "levitation" photography and decided I would give it a try myself:
"No matter how much I want to hold on to Summer, Fall is coming to sweep me away..."
(I can't tell you how ridiculously hard it was to get a good shot. If I had a helper to press the button for me that would have been so awesome, instead I had to set the timer, run to the spot, try and position myself on a chair in time to make the shot. My neck was killing me when I finally gave up. Also I fell out of the chair three or four times. I looked completely ridiculous. It was pretty great.) :)
Also, I LOVE the Pioneer Woman, and I like to enter her photography contest even though I NEVER even get looked at :), this contest is an editing contest though. Where she provides the picture, and you get to edit it however you want. This is her original picture:
And here's the two edits I did on it:
I had so much fun coming up with the ideas and photoshopping, I don't often photo shop that much anymore so it was really fun to mess around with it. :)
I was having the hardest time coming up with something, my first idea was to take a picture of this playground by the ocean we've been helping build this last week. Then I was going through some flickr groups on "levitation" photography and decided I would give it a try myself:
"No matter how much I want to hold on to Summer, Fall is coming to sweep me away..."
(I can't tell you how ridiculously hard it was to get a good shot. If I had a helper to press the button for me that would have been so awesome, instead I had to set the timer, run to the spot, try and position myself on a chair in time to make the shot. My neck was killing me when I finally gave up. Also I fell out of the chair three or four times. I looked completely ridiculous. It was pretty great.) :)
Also, I LOVE the Pioneer Woman, and I like to enter her photography contest even though I NEVER even get looked at :), this contest is an editing contest though. Where she provides the picture, and you get to edit it however you want. This is her original picture:
And here's the two edits I did on it:
I had so much fun coming up with the ideas and photoshopping, I don't often photo shop that much anymore so it was really fun to mess around with it. :)
Friday, September 23, 2011
Week 38
This week's theme is: The Eyes Have It
I guess I get the theme, but I feel like there's just going to be a billion pictures of people's faces up close on their eyes. So although I'm criticizing it, I couldn't come up with anything better. :) Here's the picture I took this week:
I guess I get the theme, but I feel like there's just going to be a billion pictures of people's faces up close on their eyes. So although I'm criticizing it, I couldn't come up with anything better. :) Here's the picture I took this week:
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Week 37
This week's theme is: Momentous Moments
I originally thought of doing a picture of the kids running at their dad as he stepped in the door from work, he's in the military so I thought it would be really touching with his uniform and everything. Then we went to the fair on Monday and I thought, oh man the fair is such a big deal every year! Plus I've been wanting to take pictures of fair rides and such anyway. THEN as we're walking around the fair, we get to the pig pen and we see the cutest teeniest tiny piglets ever. They tell us they had just been born a few hours before! So I decided to add that, because whats more momentous than birth?! :)
This is the other one I was debating over:
Then yesterday my one year old son decided to head butt me in the eye and then throw a book at the same spot, so I thought "another momentous moment: my first black eye!!" haha
Besides liking the others better, this kind of looks like a battered wife poster and thats not quite what I was going for, so I decided against adding this one! haha My eye really isn't that bad, I did a lot of photoshopping to make the bruise darker. I suppose it could possibly look like that in a couple days when the bruises settle!
I originally thought of doing a picture of the kids running at their dad as he stepped in the door from work, he's in the military so I thought it would be really touching with his uniform and everything. Then we went to the fair on Monday and I thought, oh man the fair is such a big deal every year! Plus I've been wanting to take pictures of fair rides and such anyway. THEN as we're walking around the fair, we get to the pig pen and we see the cutest teeniest tiny piglets ever. They tell us they had just been born a few hours before! So I decided to add that, because whats more momentous than birth?! :)
This is the other one I was debating over:
Then yesterday my one year old son decided to head butt me in the eye and then throw a book at the same spot, so I thought "another momentous moment: my first black eye!!" haha
Besides liking the others better, this kind of looks like a battered wife poster and thats not quite what I was going for, so I decided against adding this one! haha My eye really isn't that bad, I did a lot of photoshopping to make the bruise darker. I suppose it could possibly look like that in a couple days when the bruises settle!
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