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This is a test that I love to use to determine my current “style du jour”. I am one of those “creative types” that changes my mind every other minute-so, this is a fun gauge of where my tastes lie at any given moment.
This picture based quiz is a lot of fun and only takes about 5 minutes to take. Bear in mind that the company is out of the UK, so some of the sources are not available in the United States! Your pocketbook may thank you for that fact!!
Hayley
Family Portrait Photographer
When I was a new mom-I was always looking for ways to make my pictures better. I wanting stunning images of my child’s life, but not posed ones. Just them. Just us. Just our little moments. Since turning pro, I have struggled to not make every photo a “staged portrait”. It started to steal my joy of capturing the moment. I’ve heard this same struggle from blossoming photographers everywhere, particularly scrapbooking moms.
A way I’ve found to counteract this feeling is to just take the darn picture. Just clear the “ugly” out of the frame and get shooting.
In the picture below, Cooper was hanging out on my bed in a diaper while Noah was napping. I happened to be folding laundry on the bed as well and looked over and realized Cooper was looking awfully angelic. My first thought was “grab the camera”…followed quickly by, “forget it, there’s laundry all over the bed, the bedrooms a mess, blah, blah, blah”.
Instead of giving into the temptation to just forget it-I chose to push the laundry to the other side of the bed, move the clutter in the bedroom and shoot anyway. The key is to be very discriminate about what you include in the frame. Eliminate all the visual clutter and THINK before you push the shutter. I got down on his level and framed the image in such a way that the laundry was this.stinkin.far out of the image. BINGO. I will always look at this picture and remember that Cooper and I were just hanging out while his big brother napped. He looked so beautiful and the light (THAT LIGHT!) was just gorgeous. I’m so thrilled that I didn’t miss the chance to capture Cooper exactly as I saw him at that moment because of a little laundry.
Hayley
Lake Norman Children’s Photographer
Ahhhhhh—the blog.
Somewhere it got lost in the shuffle of life. The shuffle of having a new baby. The shuffle of sleepless nights. The shuffle of re-doing our pricing structure for 2009, and going to ALL DIGITAL PACKAGES.
I have some exciting things planned for this space in 2009…so stay tuned. It should be pretty fun!