It's my week for photographing cute babies! This is one from this morning that I just had to share... her Mom got these diaper covers from Moonbeams in Scottsdale, so I just had to showcase them in a few of the images (here is just one sneak peek). Honestly, this little baby girl is one of the sweetest babies I know! Now just wish me luck for next month when I photograph her entire extended family (on her Mom's side) with over 30 people and a dozen little children as they help celebrate a few special occasions - including great grandma's 97th birthday! I have been photographing this delightful family now for over seven years, so it is fun to watch them grow.
Pretty in Pink (and everything else too).
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Just a couple of very cute kids (visiting grandma and grandpa all the way from Virginia) from an early portrait session this morning. Thanks for getting up so early guys... and enjoy your visit to hot and sunny Arizona (it's gonna get over 110 degrees again today...). Ethan was a real trooper to pose for the family portraits, and sweet baby Becca is so precious! Thanks for letting me capture the images.
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Here is a fun and easy "self assignment" for photographers... go out and look for reflections or shadows to photograph. I don't know WHY I am attracted to these types of images, but I think they are interesting. A photograph of a subject as a reflection or shadow allows for a lot of creativity. Here are just a few ideas to get you started. Have fun...
A Bench... and a building reflected in glass... these images are all around you.
Water always makes for a great reflection image...
Have fun looking at the world in a new way and see what opens up to you!
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For those of you who know Neela (my assistant during sessions, and a wonderful photographer on her own I might add) here are a few from her most recent session. As a fellow photographer, Neela knows just how hard it is to capture images of children in general, but especially YOUR OWN KIDS! So I try to do these sessions for her whenever possible so that she can actually have images of HER with the kids. Anyway, I thought those of you who know Neela would like to see her with her lovely husband and their two sweet and funny little girls! Enjoy...
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I wanted to get a quick shot of this cute little baby (we had just done a larger family reunion and were wrapping things up, but I just couldn’t resist this “over mom’s shoulder” grab shot as she was walking away) but the background was not pretty and the light fading fast, so using a wide open aperture (that is a smaller f-stop number for those of you just starting out) I was able to blur the background and just focus on her face. Learn your f-stops and shutter speeds so that you can quickly make the proper choices to either sharpen or blur your backgrounds based on the look you want to achieve (obviously in landscape images you may want a greater depth of field to get details in both foreground and background, but as a general rule for portraits you want less detail in the background so that the eyes stay on the faces in the portraits. Take your camera OFF the AUTO mode and play with apertures and shutter speeds until it all makes sense for you. Have fun…
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cherie commented on July 8th, 2010
Pam-Thank you for capturing our daughter so beautifully. You are a truely gifted artist. Thank you-The Pobiaks