Break a Leg!

I got to be the band photographer for my little brother's final concert before moving away. The band was A-MA-ZING. I know I might be a little biased but my little bro is DANG cool! I can't believe we're related. Lead Guitar

Lead Vocal

The band with thier groupies.

And my brother- the STAR of the show. He was Awesome!

Photographically, this was a bit of a challenge. I really wish I had my 50mm lense with me but I was making do with what I had and I was actually pretty excited with what I got. The first shot is straight out of the camera and the following two only needed a few small adjustments because of the low lighting situation. It was pretty dark and I was trying not to use my flash so that I wouldn't disturb the band too much, plus it maintained the atmosphere of the colored lights.

OK- just one more

Just one more from the archives

Blast From the Past

Such a cute couple! This is another wedding done about 4 years ago before I really decided that photography was my passion. They are not super flashy but they are part of my history. NO photoshop, NO extra enhancements, I haven't even done any cropping. These are just raw, straight from the camera. Ah memories!

More from the Archives

Wow, these take me back...

NO PHOTOSHOP

NO ZOOM LENSE

NO FANCY FLASH

NO FANCY CAMERA

NO PHOTOGRAPHY TRAINING EVEN!

Just plain 'ol fashion photography.

These were at my cousin's wedding

And my Hubby's Best friend's sister's wedding- wow, that's a mouthful.


Now that I've been studying photography more in depth there are some things I would definately change about these pictures but they have some great aspects as well so I still like to include them in my portfolio.

Black and White And Color

Here's some examples of Black and White that I've done.

And a little bit of selective coloring.

Last Ones! I promise

I know- you've seen enough of these but I was just putting together a few examples to show a potential client and I realized these ones never made it to the blog and I just couldn't leave them out.

Oh! So in Love!
I liked this variation of the daddy- daughter shot better than the one I shared earlier.
Love the colors! And This girl's eyes could really sparkle couldn't they. If you can, try to look at this one blown up larger to see the detail.

From the Archives

Since I've made myself official as a photographer I've had some inquires about my past work. So, I started digging through my old files looking for more examples of what I can do.

These are from my little sister's wedding. I wasn't able to get nearly as involved with the photography as I would have liked to since I was technically a part of the wedding itself AND I had a baby on my arm (it's hard to go after the good shots with only one arm available) Still- she was beautiful, the day was beautiful and I did come away with some great shots.

Really? We're related? No way!

Anywho- More to come!

Fireworks

Since I've been learning some new photography techniques I thought I'd use the fireworks as an opportunity to practice different shutter speeds. Is there one that is by far better than the others? Not really... I guess I learned that it depends on what you're going for.
This one was open for 2 seconds. The cool part was that the big orange one in the middle was what I had originally started taking the picture of- thus the streaks. But the sparkley white on off to the side jumped in just before the shutter closed, making it more defined and ... well... sparkley!

This was open for a ful 6 seconds. Cooooooool! (That was 6 sec. worth of cool if you couldn't tell)

These were only 1/125th of a second, much smore defined. I guess this is the more traditional version of fireworks.

2 seconds- I love the bright colors

2 seconds again- you should know that purple is my favorite color

2 seconds

2 seconds

So, I guess in conclusion... when in doubt, 2 seconds seemed to work very well and got me more good results but the shorter and longer speeds created totally unique but equally good pictures.

P.S. I LOVE FIREWORKS!