I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! It was nice to take a break, step away, and spend time with Aidan for a week. Santa brought Aidan a Thomas the Train table and tons of stuff for it, and it has been a hit at this house. I don’t think Aidan has walked away from it since it got here. It is our new coffee table–what other awesome coffee table would a 2 year old pick out?
I’m back to the grind of editing again, and thanks to the month off except for newborns–I have lots of beautiful babies to edit! Here is the first of a line coming up–sweet baby Emily.
Here is my Christmas tree this year, and believe me its nothing spectacular. We usually like a real tree, but I didn’t want to deal with the mess, and I am terribly afraid of fires, so we went fake. Plus I hate stringing lights. HATE. In fact, I decided that I am going to genetically engineer a real tree that will sprout lights at maturity. That way I have a fully disposable tree (like a real one) that is lit up (like the fake one) and the best of both worlds. Either that or I want a huge closet to just roll it into after christmas. But either way, we put ours up a little late this year, and its a fake one with lots of holes, not many ornaments as I have only been married for 3 years. But doesn’t it look beautiful all lit up at night?
So to do this, here are my settings. You’re going to need a tripod for this. You want to set your aperature to at least 22. Then, I set my ISO at 1000, although you can actually turn it down a bit and just leave your shutter open longer. My shutter speed was set to 1 full second. I don’t have a remote for my camera (need to put on Santa’s list!) so I had to manually push the button, and I got some shake, but nothing to horrible. The wide aperature along with the slow shutter speed allows for you to get some starburst. I could have gotten more if I left my shutter open longer, so I may try to retake this shot again.
Again, here are my settings: ISO 1000, f22, ss 1.0
The R family is such a sweet fun family! I have been photographing them for a year and I love them all to pieces, especially those big baby blues on baby Nolan (see the green/yellow sack hat and big pinchable cheeks in the blog header? That was him six months ago!).
Little T has a lot more energy that I have, that’s for sure. But this sweet little boy was nothing but super fun on a chilly day out!
These will be the last pictures I take of the beautiful miss Carlie before her first surgery. She was full of sweet smiles and giggles!
Daisy has been my practice subject for two years now, and she is still just as gorgeous as ever. Those eyes!
