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!

Prism Challenge

 After I finally got my prism in the mail the weather turned overcast for the rest of the week... But I decided to try taking photos of my son in the leaves in our back yard anyway... I was trying to get our tree in the prism, but it didn't quite work out (and I had a impatient subject so this is the best one I got...)

 Tonight I decided to try taking a photo of our fireplace with the prism, and was just having fun. I kind-of like how they turned out. I decided I want to keep playing around with the prism to see what works best! I definitely want to take photos with the sun shining to see if I can get any rainbows!

I think this would be my favorite if it wasn't for the glare on the right hand side.

 This one has a weird funky light streak as well.

 I love the fire and the blurred background in this one, so it has the place as favorite for this shoot.

I'm not totally in love with any shot I took and I want to keep trying to get a good prism shot!

Rembrandt Triangle Photos

 I first tried with my youngest for this challenge, and got this shot - 

  It made me realize that I really, really dislike our front 'screen' door and that is one of our items on our house that we have down to replace sooner than later... I like the shot and would love it even more if it were a clear glass door ;). 

Then I tried with my 4 year old. I really like the above photo. There is something about the expression that intrigues me. The only thing that really bugs me is his right eye. The below image has his classic smile ;). 

Golden Hour Photo

This week has been hectic here and so I wasn't able to go get the photo I wanted to for this challenge, but we were having a great sunset the other day and I loved how the cloud was lit through the trees. I know this isn't the best capture, but there are houses and tons of wires around where this was taken, so I did the best I could ;). I'm not that great at landscapes in general and definitely not with city buildings (when I learned photography from someone else I was in the country and didn't have to worry about anything but nature!)

In other news, I finally figured out how to change the ISO on my camera... pretty pathetic that I haven't ever figured that out before...

Knight and Dragon

On Halloween shortly before going trick or treating, I snapped some photos of my kids - the knight was a little more cooperative...

And wouldn't you know it, the only great photo I have of the dragon - the knight is totally blurry, but I actually love it because it looks like they saw each other and are running away!