Through The Eyes of a Photographer

Though 2018 was a year full of craziness and unexpected turns, it was a very wonderful year! Every thing we accomplished this year had it's set backs, but somehow we made it. THANK GOD! Our list is longer and more meaningful than ever! Dan and I both managed to make many amazing friends, whom we are beyond grateful for, as well as kept the few true friends who have stuck by our sides throughout the years. Thankfully, we have brought more people (and animals) into our family❤️ We both switched jobs and are ringing in the new year with more money than we started 2018 off with!!! My photography business has been going so good! Thanks to all my amazing clients❤️ We may not have lost any pounds, but we didn't gain too many either!!! It was sad to see my old car go, but we welcomed our new "car car" to the family! Many upgrades and updates have been made to our home over the past year! Again, EVERY. SINGLE. THING. on that list had it's own list of set b...

By now you've already seen the picture above...OMG right! The couple is so sweet and in love but the actual picture... SCARY! It's extremely dark, everything is blended together and there is no contrast between any of the objects. EH! All photographers are different in the way the like to shoot and edit, but here's why I shot this the way I did.  See those trees behind them? Well the sun was actually poking right through them.  If I would have taken the picture, letting in more light, we would be seeing a big bright blob.  Since my style is more modern, bright, and airy, I knew it would fit my style more to brighten the whole photo from being too dark, than to have to darken it from being too bright.   Now, take a look at what brightening the entire photo did for it! WOW! You can see all the detail in the background and I was able to make them stand out, whereas the other way would be very different. This is just some of the thing photogra...

I do all of my sessions outdoors, at least for now, until I get my studio finished. Personally, I love doing pictures with natural backgrounds because it makes the pictures that much more memorable and realistic.  There are so many great things about natural sceneries.... there are numerous possibilities for locations and props you can get almost any "mood" or "feel" for the photos more control of natural lighting and so on.. BUT one thing that is so hard about shooting outside is the weather ! Something none of us have control over! This past weekend, I did a cute little mini session and OH MY GOSH GUYS, it was SO COLD! See, we knew that it was going to be absolutely freezing, but we wanted the snowy background, so we had to deal with it.  Me being me, drove up to the location where we were taking the photos....2 HOURS EARLY🙂 Even though I have done this time after time, I was still so nervous. Like SO NERVOUS. I drove around for about an h...

There have been a few times now that I've been scrolling through my social media and saw someone that I used to go to high school with post about their achievements or what they're doing now and they are flat out proud of themselves for it ... now maybe I never saw them going for what they are great at doing now, or maybe I just didn't realize that they loved doing what they now do. Either way, I felt happy for the person every. single. time. no matter who it was or how well I knew them. I followed one kid's journey starting his own business, though I have never spoken a word to him, I still made sure to show my support because it just wasn't what I imagined him going for?? I guess you could say.. and I knew from experience that everyone's support gives that extra push needed to succeed. Though things for him didn't go as planned, he still kept going and turned it into something new that more people supported. He. Didn't. Give. Up. Another person who ...