MomShots

My sister in law and her family are here visiting for the week.  We are having a great time.  Our kids play together so well and we just love having them here.  Her husband even made us some of his scruptios-didlyupmtious popcorn last night. 

I guess if you are going to be gifted, making popcorn on the stovetop is a great gift to have!  He has got mad popcorn making skillz.  Yummm!!!

They live in Southern California and their children have never seen the snow.  Well, let me rephrase that, they have never played in the snow.  We don’t have any snow at our house but we went up into the mountains to find some.

After a beautiful drive we found a place where we could get out and let the kids play until they were frozen.  Or really, until the adults were frozen.  It was fun.

I got out my camera and snapped a ton of pictures.  Unfortunatly I was pretty dissapointed with my results.  Kind of frustrating but a learning experience none-the-less.

This first photo is a bit overexposed.  There is a trend in photographers right now to blow out light colors.  I am torn between liking the way this turned out and wanting it to be less overexposed.  Either way, it’s a cute result of B. playing in and eating the snow.  There’s the whole shadow thing going on too.

This next picture is pretty cute, but if you look really closely, it is slightly out of focus.  I had a lot of photos that were not in focus and I wasn’t even using my manual focus lens.  I am frustrated by that.  I am going to try again today and try to get some more that are in focus.  

I this this last one is the best in terms of proper exposure and depth of field.  However, Composition needs to be improved here.  I love the idea of the footprints in the snow and Mag in the distance, however it is too busy on the left of the photo.  I think if just the tree were gone it would look much better.

Anyway, I wanted to share my results with you.  I was pretty frustrated while I was looking through my photos.  I really wanted to have some cute photos of our excursion but I didn’t really have many.  

I am going to try again today.  We are going to go to Salt Lake City today and I am going to try again.  I am always trying again.  Practice, practice, practice.  I think that is what it takes.

Even though this was a frustrating shoot, I can look at my photos and deduct what I did wrong.  Today I can practice those things, like proper exposure, composition, interesting angles and backgrounds.  It is a learning experience.  Good think it is so fun!