{Ben & Britni} engagement

Talk about a beautiful couple. Thank you so much Ben and Britni for allowing me to practice on you guys. You two are so awesome and both look gorgeous! I pray God bless you when you get married.

{meet charlie}

This is my darling new nephew Charlie Allen and my beautiful sister Tanya. This is baby #4 for her but her first boy. I had so much fun with this newborn session. Thank you Tanya for allowing me to practice. Can't wait to do your girls portraits next.

{Daisies w/my 50}

Well, it's hasn't stopped raining but I did manage to sneak outside and take these pictures of the neighbors flowers, daisies of course.

And now for the techno stuff: Pic #1 was taken f/1.8 for 1/1000 sec. exposure. I did a softlight, cropped, sharpened and applied lighting.
Pic#2 was taken f/1.8 for 1/640 sec. exposure. I did a softlight and then applied a "style" color and added texture at 78%, then I decreased the brightness, increased the contrast and applied the curved edges for a bit of a vintage feel.

{Well here she is..}

My very first brand spankin' new lens is finally here, YIPPEE! Can you envision me doing the happy dance? Because I am...all.over.the.house!! This here shot is SOOC (straight out of the camera) so no sharpening nothing, which was really hard for me because I feel weird not even sharpening an image anymore, but I wanted everyone to see how sharp this 50mm f/1.8 prime lens, my lens, is. She's cute, eh? The lens, not me and my cyclops eye! I left it opened so I wouldn't look like a freak squinting, but I ended up looking like a freak anyway. Oh well! Now I'm off to run around the house taking pictures since I am limited to stay indoors because of the rain.

{Green grasshopper}

That is what Grace was staring at so intently. There was a bright green grasshopper on that tree stump. This picture reminds me of what I've been doing staring out my window at the front porch waiting for the mailman to deliver my 50mm prime lens. Waiting....waiting....waiting....Maybe it will be here today!

{my five}

I've been trying to practice getting the lighting right and working on proper exposure, etc..so I can do minimal post processing. Here are a few recent ones of practicing these techniques.

{reflections}

Ben, after the rain. I love the second one because you can see his big cheesy grin.