Like the “5 minute family photo shoot” post earlier, these were taken in front of the back sliding glass door. This time, I had a chance to be a little more precise and I added a reflector to the left of the camera so the shadow side of the kiddos faces isn’t so dark. I should clarify from an earlier post about Nathan. When we are trying to do a family shoot with more than just him, he’s a stinker and...

Recently, I’ve had a chance to start shooting some local sporting events for an area newspaper. So far it’s only been basketball which I quickly found out is pretty difficult to shoot. With arms and legs flying everywhere and with the speed of the game, getting a good shot is a challenge. I’m finding that I’m keeping less than 10% of the photos as most of them are out of focus or poorly composed – again both...

Well, we were all dressed nice for Church so I decided 5 minutes before we left to take advantage of it. It sorta worked out. Rather than taking the time and trouble to set up lights, a big north facing window will do the trick. In our house, that’s the back sliding glass door. Nathan just does not like to participate in “formal” photo sessions – even the 5 minute rushed variety. We couldn’t even get him...

As I mentioned in a previous post, Nathan’s favorite Christmas present was his new bike (or motorcycle as he calls it – actually in his language, it’s his “mowerhihul”) Since we’ve been so sick over the last month and now it’s been raining a bunch, we haven’t had much of an opportunity to get outside. We finally had a good day to get out and he went right for his bike. When I wanted him to...

Nathan is a little camera ham and this is what you get when you tell him to...