Week 19 - Diffusing Direct Flash

This week's challenge was to diffuse a direct flash. I used a plain white tissue to diffuse my on camera flash. I think this one turned out pretty well ;).

Weekly Challenge 16 - Eye Catchlights

I knew I had to get photos of my son's (either one) eyes with this. They both have gorgeous eyes, however my youngest one is sick so I opted for my older son ;).

 First attempt (above) I liked the idea of him looking through the chair, but guess what? It wasn't so good with the light source!)

  This is the set up I had for the top one... He was great and worked with me taking photos of him...

And this one is just for the record - I"M SO JEALOUS OF HIS EYELASHES!

Photo Challenge - Spotlight

First I have to say that I couldn't find our good flashlight to take these so the one I ended up using was kind of weaksauce... Even though I don't think this is the best work I could have done, I still love the photo!

I came up with this idea while I was putting my son to bed and went with it. My husband was such a sport as well since he's currently miserable with a head cold!

Golden Hour Portrait

 So I wanted to get a portrait of my husband... but he didn't want to be photographed alone... so he grabbed our youngest son. (And I'm totally fine with that, as this shows a huge part of his life right now... being an awesome dad!) 

 And having fun...

Our other son wouldn't hold still long enough to get a good photo of him, but I did get this one (just don't zoom in too much because he's a bit blurry!) This also describes who he is perfectly (as he said - get a picture of me racing!)

Bokeh Shape

This challenge made me wish I had little punch shape thingys. Pretty much the only shape I'm good at cutting as small as I needed to for this was... hearts. ;). So that's why I have hearts...

 This one below as totally out of focus, but was also the first one I took that actually had the shapes right, so part of me likes it a lot ;).

Light Painting

I love the photos with light painting, but I had NO clue how HARD it would be to recreate them... I will have to toy with this more, but I did find two that I liked ;).

 I really liked the Joy more than the star...

 Then some failed attempts with my lucky subject... Drew the heart too big... Tried this a few times and had a difficult time. I need to revisit it!

 The 'steam' should be coming out his ears -not his neck!

Week 6 - Backlighting at Night

I almost gave up and didn't do this - we've had one crazy week at my house culminating with finding mold in our laundry room wall yesterday. However, I decided to try to do a last minute effort on this tonight... I saw my original idea of photographing an ornament already posted, so I went with this idea. I have to say I do like how they turned out...

 I really like these two with my husband and 17 month old son.

 My older son was covering his eyes (I think it was a bit hot, even though he was a few feet away from the fire!)

I had hoped to do an outside photo shoot, but it's been bitterly cold with temperatures in the negatives lately... too cold!