Have you ever agreed to do something that was over your head and experience? Yeah, like shooting that very first wedding when you had a decent camera with a kit lens and no clue about what you were doing? I did that in 2011. So this time I agreed to volunteer to help the parent-teachers-student association at my school if they needed it. Well I ended up shooting the homecoming dance at my high school. The thing is I've never been a "portrait" photographer in the studio sense. So, two weeks ago I headed up to Bedford's camera store in OKC to get a lighting kit. Yeah, I still am clueless.
My first shots - a creepy porcelain doll and of course the dog..
Moki was not a bad model.
So a week ago Saturday we were at the High School Dance - first time using the backdrop and light set up. I was busy shooting the kids with a flash and the old 7D.
This is the first time I've shot in jpeg in YEARS. So when I came home and loaded the photos on the computer I was very unhappy then I realized the size of the files was SO TINY that there was no way I would get the output I am used to.
So these back drop photos I'm labeling "semi-professional" but it was a learning experience and you have to start somewhere. I probably won't want to do this often.
I'm definitely confident at event photography.
My friend had her baby so last night I drove a couple of hours with my lighting set up to attempt to get a decent newborn shot.
The trouble is -I don't have the patience for newborn photography. I also don't like the artificially posed -photoshopped images. I like "real"- I like the emotion of a crying infant. I like the real child not an artificial moment. So I got to meet the baby dragon yesterday and he's precious. I really didn't want to photograph him as much as I wanted to hold him.
But I also got to see my other friend's new baby... Oh, so much cuteness. My kids were born in the 90s and 2001, we didn't infant photography the same way. We dressed them up and propped them up at the Walmart portrait studio and was happy if they didn't cry. Our societies standards have absolutely lost it in what people want for portraits. Come on, someday you'll be happy to have those snapshots of your little ones.
Anyways this is an introduction to studio portraiture for me.
I'm clueless, but that is what makes it fun.
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