Portrait Gallery

My latest project, entitled "Portraits of Rocks in the River"

GIF

Finally got around to figuring out how to make GIFs

The Chandler Family

On the Yellow Brick Road 

What a beautiful family! 

Anyone want to photoshop out that pole? (whoops!) 

The Kantor Kids

The Sweet Spot of Kansas

Despite the fact that we all grew up making fun of how flat and boring we thought Kansas was, my husband and I ended up moving here years later. We just so happen to live in the sweet spot of Kansas: right on the edge of the beautiful and tranquil Konza Prairie. When my dad came to visit he helped teach me some things about landscape photography and lighting. Glad that we captured the prairie and its beauty in the fall. 

The Learning Continues

I took some maternity pictures for a good friend of mine - I decided to try for aperture priority. I think they turned out fine. I learned a lot, and hopefully can improve in the future. Its hard to think fast about lighting and all the different camera settings, while people are waiting on you and children are getting tired of taking pictures and ready for their target ICEE as promised. But its so fun, and these kids (and mom) handled me well!

 Composition and people interaction are definitely my favorite parts of taking pictures. No to do more learning....

My friend wanted everything in black and white, and has requested that pictures of her not go viral, but has approved me to show you these. ( I would love suggestions for further improvement... i know that their is lots to be had)

Aperture Priority

Well hello there. Now that Charlie is older and I am finally getting around to feeling like myself- I have started taking more pictures again.

I decided to be brave enough to TRY to shoot in aperture priority for the first time and I learned a lot of things.... like...


1.) getting ISO, Shutter speed and Aperture to balance perfectly is hard. Especially while chasing a 1 year old around. It made for some interesting color pallets though.

 i.e; Charlie's hair is not actually this red. And I am pretty sure his cast isn't that dirty looking.

 2.) Too Much Light is great for a colorful background, but not for white skinned toddlers. (maybe his cast is that dirty....)

3.) If you wiggle around too fast near the Halloween decorations, you turn into a ghost. (Who would of  thought?) 

4.) Grasshoppers hold much more still than a child. Unless that child is chasing it.... in this case the child beat him in speed anyway. (infact tanner has claimed himself the bug king. There are tons of grasshoppers and two praying mantis in there... we will see how many hoppers the mantis' eat) 

 5.) Check your settings. In this case of the lunar eclipse I didn't check the ISO, which was unfortunately turned up  to 1600. ( I realized this after I loaded them to the computer and saw the graininess. I had even been warned of this by mike...)  But it was still fun to catch the lunar eclipse.

6.) I am going to have to work and play a lot more to get an image as crisp and clean as I would like.

but...

7.) Its nice to be back in the saddle again.