2015

Mother's Day! What did I want to do today? Take pictures of my children!

Senior Pictures (a little behind, one outfit, but DONE!)

2015

2015 one hundred ten

Today's lesson consisted of capturing a soft shadow on one side of the face.  Is that a noodle in her mouth? 

2015 one hundred six

More photography practice.  Same location, different time of the day.

2015 one hundred four

 I am excited and stressed that I started my second online photography course.  

104 Intro to Natural Light

So.....the next four weeks will be a lot of me practicing again.

This week I need to shoot in the same spot same subject at different times of the day and in different types of weather.  I'm learning about how much natural light changes.  

Even during this little session, the sun peaked through the clouds and changed the shadows on her face dramatically.  

My goal for this week is to capture catchlights in the eyes, soft shadows from a 45° angle, and make sure I am spot on with exposure and white balance.

HERE I GO AGAIN!

2015 seventy-three

The last two images I submitted for my final Critique.

Loving my little tween.

 This has been a very demanding 4 weeks on my imagination and brain cells.  So much to learn and so much to practice.  When I think I understand something and put it to practice my brain just freezes and I get all confused on what settings to use.  It will be nice to take a break and then start again in April.
Yep, Rhon and I already signed up for another class.  Introduction to Natural Light! 

2015 seventy

A familiar scene from last year.  Blake made the math bowl again.  

He was so cute up there and I'm a proud mama!

 This week we are studying ISO and White Balance.

White Balance and Metering will be my biggest challenge, but I am determined!!!

I bribed the girls with an Orange Peel Smoothie if they would just have fun and be patient with me.  

Thank you sweet girls.  You did great!

2015 sixty-six

I must have taken a thousand pictures today.  This is the only one I dared turn in for my final assignment.  (I also posted the silhouette ones and an image of Zack facing off.) 

2015 sixty-five

It's game time!!!! We were in Mexico for their first game against Davis, but were able to watch it on sfan.tv.  Part of me was glad, because it was snowing and 31 degrees.

Tonight they played Bingham and won 17-5 (Zack #1 scored 6 goals and Max #23 scored 1) Fun, fun game to watch!

 Well for me...

 After the game I tried some more images of stopped motion.  I loved the silhouettes and the jet stream.

2015 sixty-four

This week's lesson is on Shutter Speed. 

Our assignment was to submit two images: 1. blurring motion & 2. stopping motion.  

I had to wait all day for the kiddos to return home from school so I could try some different examples.  I really struggled with this assignment and am glad these two were half-way decent.  I walked in the house so frustrated and told Jim I was sorry I made him buy me an expensive camera because I will never be a good photographer and that I should just give up.  He was a little surprised and just asked why I thought the boys were good at lacrosse...they practice a lot.  I love how all of life's lessons relate to lacrosse, haha, he's so cute.  And I agree, I have a lot of practicing to do.  

50 mm, ISO 100,  f/16,  SS 1/30sec

50 mm, ISO 400, f/2.2, SS 1/2000 sec

2015 sixty-two

 Another day for relaxing!  

Well while catching up on my reading, homework, and assignments for my class. I could work like this everyday!  ;) "Yes...please bring me another Pina Colada, and may I look at your lunch menu please". 

Zack sent us a picture of the snow in Utah so Jim sent him this picture of me relaxing in the pool!  

He was so ticked! hehe