Holiday pictures time!

  This holiday season I wanted to give you all some photo taking tip for all of those holiday parties and Christmas morning photo's you all plan on taking.
{ Before you push that button make sure you are focusing in on only one item at a time.  Do not take a photo of a room full of people it is boring, uninteresting and even you will never go back and look at it keep things simply }

1. Keep it to small groups and really fill the frame use the faces to block out distractions.
2. Go easy on the flash, try using the program icons on your camera to try and avoid photo ruining flash.
3. Don't forget to take pictures of the food, decorations.
4. Do be a nuisance, don't take aunt Jane's side profile, interrupt the conversation for a split second take the photo and she can get back to her story and egg nog.
5. last and usually most important get the subjects full attention, then just before you take the photo look around the subject(s) heads/bodies to make sure you haven't let anything grow out from behind them, this prevents the hard work of trying to edit things out or leaving them in and it will be the first thing everyone will mention about the photo.
6. When taking pictures of children get down to there level taking the shot looking down on them is boring and will not use it unless it was from an interesting angle.  {Make each shot interesting}
7. When you start to pick on people your own size, bend your knees a little before taking the shot.  It will help avoid red eye's and people look better shot from either a slightly lower or higher angle.

The act of taking photo's can come across as a real pain in the rear end to some people.  Lots of people hate getting there picture taken.  But the memories that a good photo will bring back for years to come are well worth taking the time to capture a great shot.  When people are gone the only things that are left of them are our memories, Photo's & Video's.  So the next time someone tells you to say cheese think to yourself this might be the only way my Great Great Great grandchildren will get to see/know me.


For me photo's are amazing they capture a moment in time that we can never get back.  We can try and duplicate a shot we have seen but the light will be different and sometimes the whole feel of the picture is missing.  I always try to take my time and setup the right shot and will take practice but for me that just means more time with the camera and I love Love that.

Next Top Model

So I got asked to take some modeling shots of my awesome nephew Bentley.  He was a excellent model giving me all kinds of poses and faces.  We did have the basketball game on so he was mostly watching the game but it worked out fine because I switched the lighting around and he stayed focused.  I love this kid.

Halloween edition

   Well the spooking is over and all we have to show for it is a bag full of candy none of us are going to eat.  Mostly because all of the really good stuff was eaten either that night or the next day.  We had a really great time, we trick or treated with my wife's family the Stay's & the Hudson's the kids all looked really cool.
 Our son was a monkey this year and what a great costume for him since he was into everything.  He wanted to touch every pumpkin and every creepy crawling thing and he was not scared I was a proud daddy.   We carved his little pumpkin that my parents had given him and he loved playing with the guts.

 All in all we had a great time and it was nice to visit with the Hudson's since they had to drive up from AZ. to see us and I thank them for inviting us up to there timeshare in P C I love swimming in the winter and M&L you have three cute little fish it is nice to have someone in the pool as long as I like to be usually I am the last one in.  Well gotta run enjoy the pics I have pictures to edit.