Archive: Nov 2012
  1. M4H Out & About Eye Candy | P52

    Excited to jump right in so I won’t make you all wait! Here is last week’s eye candy!!

    Winner: (Wowza gorgeous photo!!!!)
    By: Rebecca Humes Photography

    Week 47: Out and About, Hitting the Streets

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    Week 47: Out and About, Hitting the Streets

    I have always wanted to try long exposure photography! This weeks theme gave me a reason:) It also gave me a chance to photograph my daughter. Acrobatic poses are the only shots she willingly lets me take. We had so much fun doing this!!!
    If you like my pictures, like my page www.facebook.com/RebeccaHumesPhotography?ref=hl

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    By: CrystalBellePhotography

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    This week I went to take my children to the beach for our Christmas card photos. I love this one, my daughter is lost in the environment. Can you find her?

    By: Sonnie Leigh

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    afternoon at the beach on a hot summers day……… LOVE

    By: meadger

    ~ Week 47 ~ Out & About ~

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    ~ Week 47 ~ Out & About ~

    This baby boy has visited relatives in 4 different cities during the Thanksgiving Holiday. He is definitely tuckered out from too much “Out & About”. On his way for just one more visit before going home tomorrow!

    By: hellolivj

    M4H 47/52 :: Out and About

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    M4H 47/52 :: Out and About

    I was driving around this evening enjoying some fresh air and spotted a gorgeous sunset along the city skyline.

    Edited with M4H actions from Fancy-Freen and Fair Haven.

    By: Linsey Wilt Photography

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    After yesterdays feast a little walk was in order so we could make room for the dessert round. I love everything about Thanksgiving… family, food, Christmas movies, pajama walks and more food!

    www.facebook.com/linseywiltphotography

    By: Lifeexpressionsphotography

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    M4H Week 47/Out and About

    A walk in the woods after Thanksgiving dinner. This is the last day of browns, oranges and greens, as we got snow last night. I think my daughter’s hat makes her look like a little wood elf.

    By: Photos By Jes

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    This was the birthday boy’s restaurant pick. When you’re 7, there’s nothing better on your birthday than a grilled cheese sandwich delivered to your table via toy train.

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    By: MatzatPhotography

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    Out taking pictures with our friends before they moved back to Australia.

    By: laura★su

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    This has been a long week in our household, we have been struck down with bronchiolitis, ear infections, and the sick bug. That with the hammering rain and freezing temperatures have meant we’ve been in and around rather than out and about. My beautiful Elle rain watching.

    By: Wendy Rakvica Photography

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    we were taking a walk and it started to snow for the first time this year!!

    By: annie*morris

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    By: senoni81

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    I really wanted to do a night shot this time. Just around the corner form my house. 😉

    Edited with M4H Icicles action.

    By: Sarah Cusano Photography

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    In our backyard my daughter swings on this swing my husband made her almost everyday. I decided to throw something cute on her and grab a picture 🙂

    By: pigqueen

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    Week 47/52 – Out and About

    Last weekend I had the opportunity to meet a bunch of girls I greatly admire in a community I adore: Girl Hearts Camera/Light Inspired. I flew all the way to Virgina to visit my dad along with participating in the weekend getaway at the Warthan Farm (if you know Warthan Farm Photography, that’s the one!). So we were definitely out and about photographing as much as we could in the limited time we had in the country! COming from the desert, seeing the autumn colors made my heart sing! I seriously miss seasons! 😛

    By: photography by anika alonzo

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    Today a fellow Army wife had to bury her daughter. She was just a few months older than big dude and lost her brave fight against cancer. I’m honored that I got to meet her when we were stationed together years ago.
    Pink was her favorite color and everybody that couldn’t make it to the memorial service released pink balloons in her honor and we were asked to share the photos with the family.
    Fly high little Angel ♥

    If you are the praying kind or if you would like to send some love and support to her family, please visit her Facebook Page
    https://www.facebook.com/hopeforava?ref=ts&fref=ts

    By: Kristy Mulvihill Photography

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    Week 47 – Out & About

    It’s getting pretty hot here, so this weekend our ‘out & about’ was at my parent’s motel pool.
    “Please put the camera down Mummy so we can go swimming!!!”

    By: Eastview Photography

    " Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."  George Eliot

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    ” Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” George Eliot

    By: Karisa Adams Photography

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    Headed to our neighborhood park on Thanksgiving Day.

    By: ChasFernandez

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    home

    By: Jill Montes Photography (do11face)

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    Having a lovely day out and about at the park.

    By: Courtney McAtee Photography

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    47/52: Out and About

    We went out and about this weekend to take some practice shots for our Christmas card. This is an outtake of my boys being themselves 🙂

    By: Simply Jamie

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    Strike a pose!

    By: Racheal Trahan

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    In the car and she doesn’t look too happy about it!

    By: April Burns

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    This is an old gas station that has been turned into kind of a museum. Rylan was checking out the old car 🙂

    By: lillylane photography

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    I had hoped to visit my favorite Arizona town for some “street” photos but we all got sick. This wildlife refuge was as far as we got. 🙂 This is a sanctuary for cranes, deer and other desert wildlife. This year, there was actually water and green reeds along with the yellow fall trees. Absolutely beautiful with the blue sky/mountains for a backdrop.

    By: sunshine.photography

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    Our town always has the most interesting people getting around but of course the day I ventured out ready for some street photography I found no-one. And so off to the skatepark I went 🙂

    By: JennBlakePhotog

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    47/52 | Out & About

    I had a photo session this week with a super cute couple. I stepped out of my comfort zone a bit and took them all over town for photos. I usually stick to my regular locations, but I really wanted to so something different.

    One of our stops was at a local park, where they had some laughs drinking hot chocolate and cuddling on a blanket in the snow. It was a little damp, but so much fun!

    I am glad I tried something new because I got some adorable, unique and fun images out of it.

    By: 24Feet

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    P52/Week 47- Out and about, enjoying a long holiday weekend.

    By: Java Girl Photography(xcfaith)

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    M4H Week 47 ~ Out and About

    Out and About on a shoot today, the little guy was so excited to go through “the cave” as he called it! He was so cute!

    By: Vintage Bird

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    Took a little walk on Thanksgiving with my sister and got a few sweet snaps!

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  2. Lifestyle Photography Indoors | Finding the Light

    Since I have began my lifestyle project and have been sharing a bit on my fan page I have noticed that I have been getting more and more questions about lifestyle imagery in general. I promise that I am not the know all/end all of natural light or lifestyle photography but for me it is a passion and something I am always striving to learn about.  There is something so special about what would be seemingly mundane to some.  I am always looking for a way to translate how I feel about or see things into my imagery. Since I can remember I have always been fascinated with photographs. Not just photography but the actual photos. In fact I have close to no images of my childhood not because my mother didn’t take any but because I used to steal them out of their albums as a child lol! I wish I would have let them be truly. But as a photographer I couldn’t imagine not using a gift for my own family. That is how I view Photography. As a gift.  We are here for such a short time on this earth so why not leave your footprint. Your mark on the world.  These are our keepsakes and memories. Our gift to our future generations. There is something mystical about being able to capture time and freeze it. The term “time in a bottle” couldn’t be more appropriate. As I started picking up steam with my business I noticed I was taking fewer photos of my children.  There were so many excuses and deterrents coming from me. “Oh but my house is a mess or Well I do this for work so I am just too tired to take my camera out.” And then I realized that was my burn out speaking. It really wasn’t how I felt. So I picked up my camera and started shooting for me again. For my children. And in just a short couple of months since I began I have come away with so many precious and treasured keepsakes. So how do I do it?

    Like all things lifestyle photography has it’s own science. A lot of times I am just shooting in my home.  We actually just moved into our place about two months a go. Before that we lived in a fairly tight apartment with big picture windows but with way less available light.  The new places has windows and ambient light at every turn. I know not everyone is so fortunate. My biggest tidbit is to make the most of what you have.  Find the windows in your home that work the best for you and focus on those. Now this is lifestyle photography so there will be times when you simply don’t have access to those windows and that is TOTALLY okay. The biggest tidbit I can share in the way of advice is you are shooting for YOU. Don’t be afraid to experiment. I admit that when it is getting dark out or I don’t have the light I crank up the ISO on the camera. Does that produce grain? Yes it does. Do I mind? No. This is lifestyle photography. The main objective for me is mood. I actually think the grain in those images help accentuate the mood in many times. Perfection isn’t practical with lifestyle photography. Actually I tend to embrace the imperfections. I love the blur. I love the out of focus images. The little things matter. They help tell a story. I get a lot of questions about particular settings on particular images. As awesome as it is to know things like that too get a feel for how an image was created the lighting situations are usually different for different people. Even the gear and the way different camera bodies handle light (for example a full frame camera and a cropped sensor camera are way different I have found from personal experience in the way the light is processed by the sensor.) My particular style of shooting involves a pretty wide aperture. There are times I do need to stop down a bit if I have a ton of things going on in the frame our multiple people but I really love a shallow depth of field. Especially when it concerns portraiture. During the day when the light is more optimal I can get away with a higher shutter speed and a lower ISO. As the sun sets or it gets dark in our home I usually compensate by having to up my ISO and pull back on the shutter speed. Now I recently upgraded to the Canon 5d Mark III. I can’t reiterate enough that gear does NOT make a photographer but like all things it is a tool and it helps. I have a lot of wiggle room now with being able to set my ISO quite a bit higher and dealing with less grain and a better white balance (Under exposure almost always accentuates and white balance issues you have.) Shooting in Full manual and RAW help me really get more creative without stressing too much since I can quickly clean up my images when necessary exposure wise too.  They are just more versatile and unlike JPEGS are non destructible.

    Gear does play a role.  I choose to shoot with all prime lenses. Do you have to use all primes to get beautiful lifestyle images? Absolutely not. It is just a personal preferences. I love primes because they are tack sharp, quick to focus in lower light and produce glorious bokeh and depth of field. They also tend to open up wider.  They are more compact and work extremely well in indoor situations.  I have a plethora of prime lenses since I don’t use zooms and like to have a variation of focal lengths at my disposal. I use just about all of them indoors and outdoors but my home has a more spacious floor plan so I usually have room to back up if necessary when shooting with a “tighter” lens. If you are using a crop sensor such as a Canon Rebel or 7d for example a 50mm will work fairly well indoors. Having a full sensor camera I can actually get more in the frame so I don’t always have to go as wide for lenses and can even use my 85mm when I need to but I always seem to prefer my 35mm indoors. Again total personal preference. I just love the lens in general. I keep a full list of my gear HERE though in case you are curious.  Your lenses will have a very prominent effect on your imagery though. Different focal lengths do produce different types of images.

    Some general tips for lifestyle photography from my own personal experience:

    -If you are shooting your kids let them be little. Messy faces, bedhead, crazy clothes are okay! I try not to be intrusive at all actually and tend to shoot my own families at the moments they tend to be completely in their own world or oblivious of me.

    -Change your perspective. Try different angles. Move around and get creative!

    -Keep your camera close at hand! You never know when an opportunity is going to present itself BUT don’t forget to savor the little things and be a part of the family so there are times when an IPhone will suffice just as well!

    -Your home doesn’t have to be perfect!!! I do tend to favor areas of my house that are less cluttered or pick up a bit when I tend to spend time in a particular room with my children but i don’t obsess. It is just part of our lives! I will however try to be conscious of blatant things in the background like a garbage can or a sink full of dishes LOL!

    -Experiment with different lenses. You may surprise yourself. It really helps lend different perspectives to your photographs. A fish eye and a 50mm are going to yield totally different results!

    -Learn to master shooting in manual and know your camera.  Being able to choose my settings on the fly now through lots of time and practice helps me not miss a thing. I don’t have to fumble or guess it kind of comes second nature now but it wasn’t always that way.  Using your camera everyday or as frequent as possible will really help you get more cozy with your camera and before you know it you will be flying through your settings. I would say it took me a year and a half before I got there but it is different for everyone and you may find yourself catching on a lot quicker. My biggest tip is if shooting small kids I try to keep my shutter speed over 1/125th or higher if I can get away with it and if you aren’t familiar with shooting wide open you are going to miss focus quite a bit so try stopping down to begin with and opening your aperture more and more as time goes by and you get more comfortable.

    -Play with light. I have a huge picture window in my home office. I am fascinated with the light it produces. When I am looking to capture a portrait of my kids and they are actually in the mood to cooperate I place them in different areas in relation to the window. I like to watch the way the light hits them differently and adjust the settings on my camera accordingly. I also love to really play with shadows.

    -Simplify your photo processing. I tend to choose a lighter more airy processing for indoors.  I even prefer black and white almost 100% off the time. Shooting in RAW I can make any general white balance tweaks or quick changes to my exposure I need but I try to get it as right as I can straight out of the camera. The goal is to accentuate what is already there, not fix what isn’t.

    Another tip to help you “see” and find the light is to place your subject near your light source. Now slowly turn in a clockwise motion with your subject while they move with you and watch how the light changes around them and the shadows differ on their face. I noticed when i really started to become more detail oriented and studied the light (not just on people but all around me) I started to really grow.  Even now I am always watching for it everywhere even when just driving around in the car!

    Have fun and practice! Don’t stress yourself out. The more you use your camera the more akin you will become to different situations and settings. Baby steps are okay! Take it one day at a time!

    I hope this helps some!! Here are a few of my lifestyle images from the past couple of months.I included the settings, lens and the unedited version to give you an idea of how I work. 🙂 I don’t convert everything in black and white I just happened to grab all black and white photos here but you get the idea. I also usually do most of my cropping in camera but once in a while once I get something in Photoshop I will decide it looks better in a different way!

     

    Shot with a Canon 5d Mark III, A Canon 35L and the settings are ISO 100, F-Stop 1.4 and SS 1/340

    Shot with a Canon 5d Mark III, 35L ISO 100. F-stop 2 and SS 1/200

    Canon 5d Mark III, 35L, ISO 100, F-stop 1.4 SS 1/1000

    Canon 5d Mark III, 85L ISO 100 F-stop 1.4 SS 1/125

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