Saturday, October 30, 2010

Photog. training giveaway

Enter to win an all expenses paid trip to SHOOTERS Workshop in Guadalajara on the Life. Camera. Actions. blog!  http://tinyurl.com/269d7d7

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Chance to win a great camera lens

MCP Actions is giving away a great Tamron lens.  I'm being nice by posting the link here on my blog... but I NEED this lens... seriously!  Good luck to all.  If you win it, let me borrow it some time okay?  Thanks!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Tutus and trucks and giggles and squishy faces

I had a wonderful "model" to capture some photos of new props (aka tutus) for me yesterday.  She is all of 3 years old and I had such a ball "playing" with her.. she had the most expressive face and was in a VERY GOOD MOOD.... don't ya just LOVE those kind of kids????  I had to pick out my FAVORITE photo of her face to enter in a contest and have literally agonized over which one to choose for the last 24 hours.  Do I go with full on belly laugh, sly smile, smirk, simple look away, head tilt, cheesy grin, hands on cheeks... I mean... this little doll had them ALL!  So....... after much agonizing, I choose.......  the following picture....


















I promise to post the others later... they were so cute... but I was drawn back to this face... it reminded me of being a little girl and looking up at the sky and dreaming and imagining what could be.... and this little sweetheart certainly had a creative imagination.  My favorite thing she said though, was when we were in the park and a young man was letting her and her little brother pet his dog and she said, "This is my little brother, he's one, he doesn't know anything!"  Her mom and I just cracked up.  Okay... back to the photo details.... this photo was taken in the morning, around 10:00est, with a Nikon D60, ISO 200, Exposure 1/100 sec at f/5.0, focal length 55mm.  I used Lightroom 3.0 for editing a few basic adjustments.  Check out all the other adorable faces  in the contest at Love Your Shot!!