XO – Katie

Freckles – you are so right about the ‘peering’ into thier lives with photos – I hope that one day I can capture that. And I checked out Jasmine’s blog – fabulous! That is fueling my photog fire baby!

And thanks Meredith for your tips – those are EXACTLY the kinda thing I need to know!

I am off to read about light-metering

XO – Katie

I’m not much of a photog myself, but I do have a couple of tips that I’ve picked up along the way…

1. Tell the subject not to wear white unless it’s a wedding–for beginner photogs, it just allows for much more flexibility, ’cause it’s hard to get lighting right when they’re wearing white!

2. If they DO wear white (or sometimes black for that matter), read about light metering, and learn how to shoot manually in order to overexpose or underexpose as necessary, based on what your subject is wearing. If you’re shooting on automatic and point your camera at something light, the camera will say “ACK! Too much light!”, and then will consequently underexpose the picture. Does that make sense at all?

Also, I love shots where the subjects aren’t looking at the camera (almost as if you’re peeking into their lives w/out them being aware of it) but you know your friends better than I do, so def. cater to their requests.

I need criticism here folks – I can take it – I promise – so dish it out! I am definitely not trying to be a master of this trade – just want to improve and I know that I can take some hard advice to get better…I promise no retaliation will come your way

DISCLAIMER: you may still compliment Brook & Kent with flowery words of jealousy – heck I am envious that she looks that good at 38 weeks too!

XO – Katie

PS – I really enjoyed your model-post (for lack of a better description). It hasn’t disappeared out of my google reader (mwahaha) and I’ve starred it for future reference. =)

PS – I really enjoyed your model-post (for lack of a better description). It hasn’t disappeared out of my google reader (mwahaha) and I’ve starred it for future reference. =)