Of this little sweetheart.  I just love her eyes and the camera loved her.

And her beautiful parents.  Love me a little sun flare.  I try to work it into my evening sessions whenever I can.

Things have been busy and I am headed into my busiest month, August.  I have two weddings to shoot, did I mention I don’t shoot many weddings!  And they are back to back weekends.  But I am really looking forward to it.  I am also booked quite heavily the month of August.  It would seem with alot of maternity shoots and newborn shoots.  Should be fun!  I love to meet the little ones when they are born.  I consider a "newborn" shoot the first two weeks of life.  Many people think "wow that is so early".  Yes, it is early but it is also the time that you will get the best images in terms of the curly, squishy newborns who will usually sleep so well for me and the camera (but not always).  I book off more time then average for them as newborns really don’t like to be told when to do things.  They are funny that way! 

So here are a few of my newborn pictures to date.  Love them all but these were just a few I thought I would share.  Sorry if you have seen them before.

Have a super week!

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I loved hanging out with this couple and their sweet little girl G.  I seem to get the most gorgeous kids.  I swear I don’t plan it.  I think all children are beautiful, all with a unique look and quality that is just waiting to be captured.  Are there some more photogenic then others?  Of course. The camera will definitely love certain features, hair color, eye color more then others.  I love brown eyes (mine are brown), but when it comes to catch lights there is nothing like a blue eyed child.  Catch light?  You know that light that is reflected in a person’s eye, the light that makes the eye shine and look alive.  People will often ask me what I do to my subjects eyes?  "They seem to just shine, and are so amazing".  I hear it alot!  So I am going to give you a tip.  It isn’t a secret, it is just the use of LIGHT! 

Light!  Yup, that is all.  The term "catch light" is something used within the photography world alot and is the light that the photographer strives to capture in the eye of the subject.  A GOOD CATCH LIGHT can make or break an image!  And, if you delve into photography even more you will learn that there is an appropriate spot on the eye to "place" the catch light if you are able to be so lucky with a moving 2 year old.  Not likely.  However, striving to be aware of the light source you are using, the direction it is coming from is key in taking good photos with "light in the subjects eyes". 

I even know other photographers who have gotten asked by clients if they can "take out the spec of light in their eye"!  uggg.  The response you will get if you ever ask me to do this totally silly thing is a big fat "NO".  It is what makes the subject look alive.  A studio photographer positions her strobes, soft boxes, and lights in just such a way to ensure GOOD CATCH LIGHTS.  It makes the eyes sparkle and you can even find the magazines adding them to images if you know what you are looking for.  I had to laugh when I saw an obvious one added to the image in a magazine I was looking at the other day.  It was obvious (to me) that it was fake and added in the computer before print.  So a lesson for today about photography.  Turn your subjects to the light.  Get them close to a window and turn off the flash (which adds puny small pin catch lights).  Look at your subjects eyes just before shooting to see where that window pane is reflecting in  their eye, or the open sky, and then begin to take better shots.  You will soon have people saying the same things to you "wow her eyes just sparkle".

My recent cutie pie I got to photograph.  She was a doll and had those big blue eyes that loved to reflect light.  Note the catch lights, and no, not technically where they should be but I am not that obsessive… I am usually happy just to see them in a good photo.  she was looking through a little window in the bus stop (shown below) and the open sky in front of her.  That’s it!  Nothing more.

  I loved this bus stop and thought the saying was totally fun and cool.  I truly think it is realistic to demand the impossible in our lives.  Why shouldn’t we?  We are here, on this earth for a very short time, and if we don’t set our sites to the "impossible" then we will never know what we could have achieved.  I also love the saying "if you think you can you can, if you think you can’t your right"!  I live by that.  We each need to believe we can reach beyond our goals.  Having a family that we can spend a short time loving in this world is a realistic demand and, for me, a dream come true.  Let us always try to be realistic and strive for the impossible.

Thanks Angela and I will be working hard to get these up very soon.

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