Kimberly & Bryan - SW FL Portrait Photographer

I had the pleasure to photograph this wonderful couple a few months back. They were so cute together!  I got several really awesome images from their mini session, and I just wanted to share a few with everyone.  Enjoy!

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Landscape Saturday Night

My hubby is usually THE BOMB when it comes to landscape portraits.  No joke.  I will take 20 trying to get the camera settings just right and none of them will look awesome.  He will take 1 that will blow me out of the water.  Seriously.  Most of our contest entries for magazines and art galleries are his landscape shots.  (Now just don't ask him to photograph a baby.  That's a whole nother story.) 

SOOooooo, I was really surprised and proud of myself when I imported these on the computer today.  - My daughter's dance school moved into a new building that is on the outskirts of town.  Every week when we go, I think to myself that the landscape would make for pretty pictures, but we are always running around like crazy.  I have never bothered to try to photograph it.  Then this week was their last week of class, the one where they do a little performance for the parents.  Naturally, I brought a camera.  On the way into ballet on Tuesday, I was blessed with this awesome sunset:

I saw how pretty the sky was and just snapped a couple (yes 2, not 20) pics on my way in.  This one is pretty much straight out of camera - I had to convert it from a raw file to a jpeg.  But other than that, this is exactly how the sky looked.  Oh so pretty! 

Then on Thursday, we pulled up to see the sun just breaking through the overcast sky.  It made those awesome rays coming down, and I always think of them as God's rays.  I think some people call them God's fingers, but whatever they are, I think they are heavenly.  It makes me warm and fuzzy inside when I see them.  So naturally, I had to snap a picture of that! 

Amazing!!  I love it!  Again, it only took me a couple of shots to get this.  (Happy, warm & fuzzy sigh.)  Can I just say I love my camera and I love being able to capture beauty with it?

Well, happy Saturday night.  Oh - well happy Sunday morning now.  LOL.  It's close enough right!?

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A Girl and Her Guitar

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A Beautiful Family

I just love it when families put complete faith in me and let me do my own thing.  Not that I don't welcome input from our customers, but sometimes that input gets out of control.  Since those people aren't photographers, they don't always know what looks best on the other side of the camera.  Sigh.  Thank goodness I haven't had to deal with that in some time. Instead, I've been getting wonderful people who take direction well, and who do their own thing naturally in front of the camera well.  When this happens, it's like a bit of pixie dust get sprinkled on the session, and we get gorgeous pictures as a result.  This family is one of those great ones.  They were wonderful.  Their children were wonderful.  And everyone in this family is just down right good looking.  What more could a photographer ask for?

Well one thing I would have liked was for my stinkin' flash to fire remotely like it's supposed to.  I had too much interference that morning, and I think it was also due to the fact that it was morning.  I love to shoot in afternoon light, but the crazy tornado spawning weather the day before made that impossible.  I was nuts checking the weather on my computer every hour in the hopes that we would get a break and have a gorgeous sunset burst through the clouds.  Instead it got more ominous as the day went on.  We were lucky to reschedule for the next morning, but in a park without a lot of shade, that means a lot of light and some squinting.  Even in the darkness of the hundred year old banyan tree, there was too much light to get my camera talking to the flash (Doh!).  When I came home, I had to investigate, and I think my best bet is going to be to get a remote to help fire the flash.  I'll add it to my never-ending list of photo supplies that I want/need for the business.

The other cool thing that I have learned with this shoot is how to do an effect that is similar to Lucis Art.  It's like HDR Photography meets a sketch, or a crayon, or colored pencil rendering.  It is a seriously cool effect and totally addicting!!!!  I want to do this to all my pictures now.  Well, almost all of them.  I am going to create a few posts just on this technique in the future (I hope).  So without further ado, here is my really cool Lucis Art, and some beautiful family photography with stunningly good looking subjects. 

Showmanship

Today was a 3 ring circus at the fair.  Sounds silly doesn't it?  Really.  We had steer grooming, poultry check-in, and rabbit showmanship all happening under the roof of our one small barn on the fairgrounds. The good news is that meant we were pushed out towards sunlight, so I was able to get some great shots.  The kids had one on one time with the judge today - and the bonus is that there were no cages and high tables to get in my way.  This means great pictures all around and a few funny faces in response to the judge's questions.  I love the challenges of the fair.  Enjoy!