High Key

Well, ever since last week's scavenger hunt and finding out what the heck *high key* photography is in  the first place.  I'm realizing more & more how much I'm loving it.... & it's funny because it's so common that when I'm reviewing my shots that a good majority of them are pretty bright, sometimes too blown for saving. But still when you get one, where the lighting is just so and her expression speaks to me... I don't know it's hard for me explain.. anyway I love this one...



Here's Maddie from just the other day, chillin out in her bed with her favorite bear "Love Bud."

Here's a few from a few months back around December, that I've always loved, but have always had that silly doubt, you know the one that says.."anyone who's anyone that knows photography would say these are blown to bits!"





I really like this one, because you get a really good sense of her true eye color here.  They've been what I've been calling camo green...Jason's were this exact same color when he was going on 6... & have since changed to a deep dark brown.  You can kind of see the traces of brown already in her eyes, & I suspect that her's will be brown as well by next year.

Haha, and a pair of shoes that I was going to use as *shoes* a few weeks back for Scavanger Hunt...but pulled out at the last minute thinking that it wasn't "technically correct".



Moral of the story...love for a photograph or for the moment in which you've captured is solely in the eye of the beholder.

March Quarterly Top 5!

Top 5 shots since January, what a tough choice!! As I'm going through them all, I'm liking the B&W's the best I think, so here you have my group! 


These are all candids...this was Maddie, with her sleeves rolled up, we were baking a cookies for New Years!


This was just the other day, just a random shot, of her gazing out her bedroom window.







This was spur of the moment, I had just gotten my new 30mm, testing it out on her of course...didn't expect her to pose like this though...she's getting so grown up!


"Maddie...you camera hog!!!"

Scavenger Hunt Sunday!

Still waiting for some nice weather to get out to conquer these scavenger hunts... these indoor shots are getting to be a bit challenging! Still not getting out of the 40's/50's here in Jersey, where is spring?? I want to shoot some flowers or some green grass or the wind blowing in my daughter's hair, anything! Sorry for the vent...I shall carry on now with this weeks items...

Here are my interpretations :0)

High Key


This was a a tough topic, although I like this shot, I'm thinking the pedals are still a bit too blown for my taste.



I can't help but post this one of Maddie, (which I'm sure you all have seen before!) it's one of my favorite shots...at the time, not realizing that it was a *high key* shot.


Bedroom


See this is why I so enjoy scavenger hunt, because I would have otherwise not captured Maddie here in all her sillyness of her bed... I've always admired her little knick knacks & oddites souroundering her when I give her a kiss at night. (All her doing by the way) I've never thought to phogograph it. & to top it off, look at that outfit, this is her father's soft ball jersey she wears as a nightgown, too sweet for words :0)



Something Tiny



Off in a Distance


From the archives, can you tell, I'm yearning for warm weather :/ Ahh..I can't even imagine how glorious it would be to feel the hot sun sun & sand of the beach right now!



Stripes


Here again with my extension tubes...loving them...just a ribbon from my teddy bear :)

Happy Sunday :D





Next Week's Items:
Motion
"Waiting to Click" (Exploring with a Camera prompt - this follows the idea that sometimes we have to wait for just the right moment to get a particular shot)
In Fashion
Animal's Perspective
Many