The Vanessa and Carmela

Carmela

Sorry I haven't posted for a while I have been away from my camera for a long while, longer than I would like.

I went on a photo shoot a while back with this kid Carmela to take pictures of  our friend Vanessa. Carmela and I are both interested in photography and love to take pictures. With similar cameras we can help each other figure out settings and give tips to each other.

Its helpful for me to have a friend that shares the same interest in photography that I do, and its more fun to have a friend to enjoy it with you.

Vanessa

These photos I would like to point out are taken in the city, but we were looking for pictures that didn't have tons of houses and distracting stuff in the background. 





This struggle I would say is the biggest for the city photographer unless you prefer the city style, but me I would prefer country, but we make due with what we have.

Photography Tip: When trying to doge houses in the background, try and use different angles to get them out of the way and don't forget about checking the background when focusing on your subject.

  
This Kid Vanessa she is amazingly beautiful, any picture of her would turn out amazing she is so photogenic. I think she will defiantly go far in her career of modeling.

I love having these to as my friends and its such a blessing to have them in my life.

Hope you enjoy the pictures!  

The Classics

This is the type of picture I call the classics. They are the classics because its one of those pictures you have seen a thousand times but a little different every time. Well one reason to take a "Classic" is so that you can see if you can imitate the type of photography you want if you are not quite sure what you are doing, I don't suggest doing it that much, because you don't want to tread to close to copying. Another reason is to see if you can take a classic and make it your style. I chose to take it because it simple and fun, and something I can easily do again, I plan to take the same picture next year and see the improvements or style changes I have made.                                                          The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. -Saadi                                                      thanks for reading, hope you enjoy.

                                            

Sarah's Sweet Sixteen

This is Sarah, I got the wonderful opportunity to take pictures of her in her beautiful dress. She looks like Elsa from the movie Frozen. She even did her hair too look like queen Elsa braid.

We had some time to take some pictures outside which is what I always prefer, and it was a perfect day because it was warm but not too hot, and  there was light cloud cover giving me the perfect amount of light to work with. It also helps that her smile is so perfect! 

I still am loving black and white, I had to have one out of the 4 I posted today to be in black and white. I think that this picture in the black and white makes her eyes pop out more, that would also have to do with her make up, which she did a good job on. 
  

I am still using my friends lens, that I am going to have to do some research in seeing how much they cost because it works rather nicely, for the type of photography I like. 

This picture was taken inside while getting ready. let me just say I love her heels! I would love to wear heels but I cant for I am a tall girl.

In the house the lighting wasn't the best to I had to use some "fake light" as my friend would call it, meaning I boosted up the ISO a little higher so that the camera can account for the lack of lighting in the room. Just be careful when you do this not to forget your settings are on that because when you go outside and forget about it your pictures are white, (and yes that was a mistake I did make ha ha, luckily I caught early on)

In this photo I hyped up the shutter speed to capture the movement of her dress frozen in the picture. Moving the ISO up a touch to balance the quick shutter speed. I did that because if you were to just put the shutter speed up the picture would be dark because the faster the shutter speed the less light comes into the camera, meaning you should put some camera "fake light" in to balance everything.


photography Tip: Play around with your ISO and Shutter speed.  Find different setting that you would normally use, maybe you will find something you like better, and don't settle for an okay picture keep trying for something you can be proud of.

"Where the road ends an adventure begins" - Mrs. Frizzle

Thanks for reading and looking at my photos. I would love to hear from you! Let me know what you think.

Beautiful Decay

There is beauty in decay. To often we look at what is supposed to be beautiful, but really we should be looking for that beauty in other places. Like these roses, they are wanted when they are fresh red bloomed flowers, now they are forgotten, dead and lifeless and still beautiful.

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." -unknown

Jolly

My cat! 
A friend lent me a new lens and lets just say I really like this lens, I am going to have to get one of my own! This lens does close up much better. It has no zoom so that's something to get used to. 

Photography Tip: take pictures of the same thing to see your own improvement.

Thanks for reading!

White

The white has disappeared. What seemed like what would never end, has gone. No more snow pull out those shorts!

This picture uses the rule of thirds very clearly, my sister is standing in the bottom right corner. Essentially what you want to do its to get your subject in where the lines cross, it creates for a more appealing picture. there rest of the picture should be filled with empty space, stuff that doesn't distract from the subject, like this perfect example SNOW!


 "What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness." -John Steinbeck

Photography Tip: Try using the grid on your camera to place your subject (if you have grid.)

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Head Heart Hooves

My sister invited me to come with her to Horse 3. Its an event were all horse lovers meet to watch trainers and learn new things about horses. 

This is Steve he was one of the three trainers, training a 2 year old filly from only halter to saddle broke. (with some some stuff still yet to work on after) They only had 4 one hour sessions to train before the riding test. Steve was successful.

(He is on his own horse at the moment, she is a is a pretty palomino named Shiner.)

Steve was the winner of the contest, and he was also very funny and enjoyable to watch. 

I learned many new things about horses, And new photography techniques with horses.




In the round pen It was hard to get pictures because there is bars to keep the horse inside. Having those bars meant I would have to stand by the round pen to get my pictures, which was very tricky, because the horses were so young and easily distracted my click of the picture would get them off focus. but they got used to the sound eventually because I was not the only photographer there. 

And lets just say I am thankful for zoom lenses! I would not of been able to take good pictures without it!.

Photography tip: Change your shutter speed to faster so you can get clearer shots of the horses because of there fast movement.

Thanks for reading! Love to hear what you think.