April 28, 2012

Last November I joined the Photographic Society of Northwest Arkansas.  I've been very pleased with how active the group is.  Although I've not participated in any of the group shoots or trips, I have gone to a couple of the meetings and taken a few classes.  They mostly offer short informational classes that only meet once, but last month I took a Glamour Photography class that met 5 times, and we had a group model shoot on one of those nights.  I wasn't quite as interested in the glamour aspect of it as I was in getting some studio experience.  It was cool to learn about the lighting, and I hope that I'll be able to remember all of the info when I eventually invest in my own lighting equipment.  Here are a handful of my favorite shots that I took at the model shoot.  And let me go ahead and warn you that they are very pin-up/boudior-ish, because apparently that is what glamour photography tends to be about.

April 18, 2012

I upgraded to a new camera!  Hooray!!  I wasn't planning on upgrading right now, but I couldn't pass up a fabulous deal on a Nikon D7000.  I got it the week before Easter, so on Easter afternoon we packed up my new camera and my son's trike and headed to the park.  I snapped only a handful of pictures because he was a little grumpy.  He had very specific ideas about where he did and did not want to stand, and he wanted to be riding his trike but not have it in the picture with him.  Have I mentioned that he's two years old?  :)