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February, 2009


Imagination | Childrens lifestyle photographer

Yesterday the USPS delivered a package to my house, YAY!!

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Everyone always wants the latest and greatest but this little gal is my newest inspiration. I am like everyone else, winter takes a toll on my creativity. Don’t get me wrong I love to see the snow arrive and I LOVE a good snow storm, just not when I am driving in them. It’s just that the endless days of gray sky just brings on a dull blah feeling, or my girls new word, Lame. (sorry to anyone who hears it from them. I read them the definition and explained it’s context but kids try to understand things on their own terms :-D )

So last night Chris and I, well mostly Chris I just stood watched patiently and smiled, built a nice contraption so I would be able to take a photograph with my dSLR through the viewfinder of my new camera. Time like this I so very much appreciate a husband who is an engineer. Not that I don’t appreciate him normally, but I knew when I asked hime to help me he would be all geeked about doing the project. He even ran to Home Depot at 8pm last night and picked up more gadgets than ever needed. He was ready to build a tank for this camera. Those of you who either know my husband or have a husband who is an engineer are probably laughing right now, you know exactly what I am talking about. ;-) Anyway, ther weather warm warm and the girls and I headed out to have some fun. I love when little things can make us so happy, passerbyers who saw me at the park probably thought I was nuts, but atleast we were all HAPPY!  Here are some first shots and quick edits I did this evening.

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4 Comments

Pam
2.27.2009

I love the look of these pictures. I did smile of your description of Chris because my Michael would be the same way. Good to see you yesterday.

Sue
2.27.2009

Does Chris read your blog?

elizabeth
3.02.2009

oh Kim.. these look awesome so whats the trick how do you shoot with your dslr into the box camera? I love the results.. so freakin cool

tracylynnt
4.02.2009

I would love to see a photo of your contraption you built for it!

 
 

 

Check it out! | Michigan Lifestyle portrait photographer

Check out the new front page to my website, I LOVE IT!!! If you refresh the page the photos move how cool is that. There is also snippets from the most recent blog post on the front page to give you a little sneak peek into the sneak peeks. :-) Thank you Brian, you did a wonderful job!

So what do you all think?

4 Comments

Sarah Anne
2.22.2009

Love the new look!

Amber Sheree
2.23.2009

Love the new splash page!

elizabeth
2.23.2009

it looks great love it

Pascale
2.25.2009

It’s so cool! I am totally digging it, great job!

 
 

 

Photographer Tip #3 |Lifestyle portrait photographer

We live in a digital age, everything is saved in jpg, mp3, mov formats. As a child growing up I remember rummaging through photo albums looking at photos of myself and brothers. This morning I was thinking I love having an actual printed image in my hand, for some reason it looks so different than just looking at it on a monitor. Whenever I hand the families I photograph their artwork, I hope they feel the same way. Moments captured in a split second, soon forgotten but then when you see the print memories come rushing back of that very moment. I love that feeling.

SO, my photo tip this week is to look through your digital images either on your camera or computer, pick out the images you love and get them printed. It’s always good to have a hard copy just incase something happens. Prints are also more apt to be looked at over and over again. Don’t get me wrong I love having digital images on my computer and on external hard drives, it’s much easier to store, but it’s also much more time consuming to share those image with family and friends visiting.

This morning I took my own advice and sent a bunch of photos to the printers. I have an album ready for the image to be placed it. Tomorrow I will burn a cd of the slideshow below just for the girls to watch and laugh to. :-) Here is some of the images I had printed from a “mini session” I did with my own girls last week. Took me forever to edit them because everything about photographing your own kids is different.(that is another post in it’s self). I hope you enjoy the slideshow.

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Sue
2.20.2009

Very, very nice. R gets into being photographed when she’s feels like it. My favorite of all is the first one of H inside the unbrella. It looks like the girls enjoyed this session.

 
 

 

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