smiles, laughter, and the manual settings

I LOVE laughter. It’s fun to laugh. It’s fun to watch your kiddos laughing hysterically. But I love so very much to capture it in photographs. Then it makes me smile every time I look at them. It’s like reliving a happy moment…over and over.   :) My manual settings on this image below: ISO…

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baby details and my macro lens

Oh how I love baby details … like these fabulous eyelashes. And oh how I love my 100mm macro lens. My manual settings for the picture below: ISO – 1600 aperture – F3.5 shutter speed – 1/125 second camera body – canon’s 5D mark II lens – canon’s 100mm macro 2.8L Oh and these squishy…

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little buddies

Exploring with some little buddies… So, here’s the way it goes down when I take my camera with me when it’s just my boys and some friends. This is for the times when it’s not a photo shoot, it’s just heading out for a picnic and exploring or something real life like that. First of…

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photographing wiggly kids

I often photograph wiggly little moving kids. When little ones are one, two, three, four, and more years old they often don’t want to sit still for me while I take their picture. Sometimes, that’s okay because it’s wonderful to capture their little personality as they do things and move around. But there are also…

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