Mike & Amy | Sneak Peak

Here is a sneak peak of the engagement/pre-wedding shoot I did on the weekend. I was actually second shooting/assisting with Liam for AppleHead Studio. More to come soon!

Oops!!

So I have seriously been slacking in the blog post department this past week. But I intend to catch up. I figured I might as well give some updates as to what has been going on.

You may have remember me posting here about my goal to jog 50KM before the end of the month. Well I don't think I'm going to reach that goal. I am at 30KM now and I can consistently run for 5KM but by the time I am done me knees have been hurting. I have been taking it easy because I dont want to injure myself. This Thursday though I have a doctors appointment and I am going to mention it to her. Hopefully it is just soreness because I haven't been running a whole lot the past couple years. We'll see though.

Yesterday I assisted on an engagement shoot with Liam from AppleHead Studios. We had a ton of fun, the couple was fabulous and I can't wait to assist with the wedding next month. I will post some of these photos tomorrow as I am calibrating my monitor tonight in hopes to help with my color in photos. I have found that when I visit my blog from computers other than my own Mac the colors aren't as vibrant. Hopefully calibrating will help :)

Happy Monday!

Karynne | Portraits

Miss Karynne and I have been friends for years :) When I got my first camera we went out and had our own "photoshoot". The photos of which were hilarious. This time they turned out a LOT better and we had even more fun. Check out the results :D

Justin & Melissa | Engagement

Just like a promised here are some more photos from the engagement session last weekend :) Have been having some problems posting.

Sneak Peak

Justin and Melissa are kind of like my baby. Melissa contacted me Christmas time '07 to see if I would be interested in shooting her '09 wedding. At the time I had never even thought of photographing weddings. But Melissa emphasized how much she liked my work and wanted me to be their photographer. And if anyone knows Melissa, she gets her way ;) So I said yes!

I was/am SO excited. I was so excited that we said "Hey, why not do multiple engagement shoots?". More the merrier eh? So we did one last summer, one last fall and we just completed our third one this past Saturday.

I thought I would give a little preview as to what will be coming up tomorrow :)

Happy Tuesday!

Easter

Easter dinner was spent at my mom's house yesterday. And as tradition she hid some chocolate :) Matt and I raced around the house when we got there to see who found the most. What joy childhood traditions bring. Sometimes I think we all need to step out of life for a few minutes and remember how simple it was when we were little. No broken hearts, no work, no taxes, no bills.. just our unlimited imagination that brought us to the moon and beyond.

I hope everyone had an awesome Easter! Here are some photos of the hunt and of the dinner. Enjoy :)

ISO

When I started taking photos for fun I took friends advise about shooting modes on my camera and what settings to use, etc. I'm not sure who said it but someone told me to always use the lowest ISO setting possible for my situation. Since then I always have, and I mean always. I almost never bumped up my ISO higher than 100 and if I did than it was never over 300.

The other day I decided to change that. I know you get less grain with less ISO but sometimes grain is good right? So I took some photos of Squeaky with some high ISO settings to see how they would turn out. This is what came of them :)

This photo was taken at 1000 ISO.

This one was taken at 1600 ISO.

All in all I think I am a little bit more comfortable with changing my ISO up. I even did that today at an engagement shoot. You'll see more soon :)

KM

As the last of the snow melts away and the birds come out singing in the morning, Matt and I have hit the roads. we aren't moving silly, we have been running. Like most people I find it extremely hard to be motivated to get into shape in the winter. But this time of year is perfect for it! It is still cool enough that you aren't over heated while jogging but it isn't so cold it makes your ears hurt. My ears hurt when it is cold out :(

So in light of the seasons changing I have decided to set a goal. I want to jog 50KM before the end of the month. If you jog 5KM 10 times than hey, that would be easy! But my endurance isn't that high yet. Sad I know :P Ha ha ha. I will post my progress weekly and let you know how much I have left to go.

To match the fitness theme I took the following photo the other day after my jog.

(this photo was taken at 1600 ISO. I was testing ISO the other day. More about that tomorrow)

Love

As my last post said I have been MIA for the last week or so. A love one was lost from our family. Watching him leave us was a moment that has been burned into my eyes ever since. It really made me think about how special life is. I have never felt this kind of loss before and it makes me want to hold on to what I have tighter than ever. You really don't know when it could be ripped from us.

So as we laid him to rest, I grabbed Matt's hand, squeezed a little tighter than normal and thanked him for being there for me. I am so lucky to have a soul mate like him and an amazing, supporting group of family and friends.

I love you guys :)