Friday, May 29, 2009

Collage



I saw this on the web and thought it would be fun to do with my kids. I ordered 16X20 posters of these to hang in their rooms! Lots of fun!

Sunday, May 24, 2009

The "D' kids








I want to say Thank You to Cara for letting me photograph her two beautiful children. I had to resort to bribes for little two year old Grace in order to get her to stay on the backdrop and take a few pictures. Now I'll permanently have a stash of smarties in my pocket when taking small children's pictures. Little Rhys loved to be held by his mommy and wasn't to sure of my camera. Even at 3 weeks old he knew he was at a different place and wasn't to sure of it. We did get a few good shots of him in his car seat (covered w/ black suede). I am really loving taking little ones pictures so a huge thank you to all the families that have let me do what I love. Take pictures!

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Baby K





I had my first indoor photo session with a beautiful three month old little girl, I'll abbreviate her name to "K". Since I don't officially have a studio or lights getting the correct flash exposure for the pictures was difficult. I learned that to do indoor photography I need to invest in some indoor lighting. which will hopefully be coming soon. Baby K took some beautiful pictures as you have probably seen above. I want to thank Baby K and her mom for letting me take her pictures, they were great sports for my first indoor session.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

The Hage Kids







Here are some pictures of the Hage kids. I had an awesome time shooting them at a park here in Sioux Falls. Their mom is a very dear friend of mine and was sick of the standby portraits taken at chain studios, I hope these pictures live up to her expectations. I believe we got some original, fun, and beautiful pictures that capture her kids in the moment. I used my new flash as fill flash in many of these pictures and it worked wonderful! Thanks Hage Kids for letting me photograph you. I hope they'll be pictures you'll look back on when you're my age!

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Shanks Kids




Thought these next three of my kids would make good pictures to hang in our living room.



Yesterday, I got to try out my new flash on my kids! We went to a relatives and took pictures out in his pasture and by some trees. I never even thought of using a flash outdoors, but the fill flash it produced was incredible on this sunny day. There was lots less editing in photoshop on these pictures! Hope you enjoy!

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Playing in the Rain



One rainy day last week and the kids decided they wanted to play in the rain, so I let them! I got a few cute pictures!

Sierra 7yrs Old


Took this in Northern Minnesota at my sister Jill's.