Mock Senior Photo Shoots

As much as I love my nature and artistic photography, portrait photography brings in more money at this time. I have come to really enjoy it as well.  I am working towards steering my business towards senior photo sessions. I teach juniors in high school and love working with teens. Also, it is so much easier to work with one person than a whole family! Plus, I love the post processing as well.

I had the daughter of a friend and my cousin both model for me with mock photo shoots. Both of these have gotten me a lot of notice as a senior photographer and I have started talking with students about booking sessions for their senior photos. I am also looking at giving one of my boys a free session in order to both get experience with shooting males and getting some senior boys in my portfolio.

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I plan on trying to get several good shots of my hummingbirds this year. This is the first.

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Nothing special, just a quick shot of the petunias my great grandmother gave me. I spent all day editing photos from my modelling shoot and didn't have much time to take pictures...

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A former student of mine needed a last minute photo shoot to get some photos for her modeling portfolio. We had 1 day to prepare and 1 day to shoot. I will then have 1 day to edit!

We had a lot of fun, but it would have been more fun if it hadn't been 56 degrees, windy and misting off and on...but she was a trooper. We ran out of time, but I guess the photos we took will have to do. I will post more photos of the shoot later.

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Not a great picture because of how far away I was, but there were a few buzzards feasting off of the small animals that invariably get caught in the mower and the deer was eating the fresh mowed grass.

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When I saw the light hitting Mia's face, I just had to grab my camera and take a picture. She is trying to to laugh but I love the smirk on her face. She is just a beauty.

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My cousin was kind enough to model for me as I continue to work on my senior photography. I needed someone to help me test different locations on my parents' farm.

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TERRIBLE focus. I tried to get some quick pics while working in the nursery. I couldn't quite get Mary to be still enough and didn't grab my flash, so I wasn't using a very fast shutter speed... Oh, well.

365 Catch Up

Once again I am behind on posting my 365 photos. This time it is due to time constraints and internet problems. Luckily, I have a little time right now and my internet was fixed today! Yeah!!

I realize I should also be blogging about each photo, but I just haven't had the time to do it, or maybe I should say "take the time" to do it. I will try to do better...when I have time.

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 My nephew carries the worm bucket as my mom and I take the kids to hunt for worms. The worms were supposed to be for the chickens, but ended up as fish bait.

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 My mom and I on Mother's Day. I can't even remember the last time we had a photo taken together. I used to hide from the camera, but after losing over 100 pounds, I'm not quite as camera shy (although I still prefer being behind the camera).

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 My nephew runs to first base at his T-ball game. This was the first game I have gone to and it was so fun to watch.

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I had my friend's daughter model for me today so I could practice and get samples of senior portraits. I had only done two quick senior shoots before and those were over a year ago (last minute shoots before the pictures were due to the yearbook staff). Brett is actually a freshman, but I wanted a younger student for my portrait pricing flier. I really enjoyed the shoot and I am enjoying editing them as well. There is just more you can do creatively with senior portraits than you can with family or wedding portraits (IMHO). I think I am going to like this aspect of portrait photography and since I teach juniors, I have a pretty good "in" with potential clients.

365 Prom, Babies and Kitties

Once again I have gotten behind in posting my 365 photos. I post them in three different places, and this blog takes the longest for them to load, so sometimes the photos back up.

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This year's prom theme was A Night at the Beach and this mask was part of the tiki bar.

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I love that these girls decided to wear their Chucks with their ball gowns for prom! Keepin' it real!

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The theme for this baby shower was centered around vintage toys and the colors were inspired by the primary colors of blocks.

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I spent all evening after work editing photos from a shoot, so I just took a quick photo of Hemingway for today's photo.