Softball !

While on break I was assigned to shoot a varsity softball game....I thought that since it was a bright sunny day it was going to be fairly easy to shoot the game...Well for me that wasn't  necessarily the case. I had a 70-200 lens, but it was still difficult for me to be able to get close enough. However, to my advantage, girls don't hit as hard as guys soooo stopping the action wasn't nearly as hard as it was when I shot a baseball game. My settings were ISO 200, 91mm, f/6.3, 1/2000sec

Senior !

Over Spring Break, I had alot of down time and in between assignments I decided to play with the gear. I thought I had packed a macro lens, but I had the 17-50 instead. But while I was just outside my house shooting, I noticed my graduation tassel swinging and thought with the dark overcast and the bright orange tassel I thought I could get an interesting shot. My settings were ISO 400, 47mm, f/2.8, 1/50sec.

Ballroom Dancing

The other night, Rosebud's held the annual ballroom dancing class. This was a fairly simple setup except for the fact that I'm 5'2'' and I was wearing 3 in heels. Not only was I wearing heel but so where the subjects....So some of the pictures' compositions where slightly awkward because of the angle they were shot at. I enjoyed shooting this event because of the expressions and life brought to the photos. 

County Lovin' (chezzy title haha)

After shooting by the barn, I decided to set up a shot in the middle of the road. I only had one strobe with a soft box attached, so I had to find another source of light to get my camera to focus on the rose in the girl's hand. In an attempt to be innovative, I told my brother to go grab an industrial size flash light and shine it on the rose....This was my constant light, and this allowed my camera to focus on the dark rose in the dark ! Not quite an amazing photo BUT I got my desired set up and shot.

Iron Rose !!!

A couple of weeks ago, I shot my first couples session !!! I was very pleased with the outcome of the photos I took!!! Originally, the plan was to take the photos at sunset, but due to lack of punctuality on my part, we had to do the session at night. BUT, considering taking this class during the past couple of years I learned that darkness isn't always a bad thing, and strobes can be your friend !!! So we went outside buy their barn in wamba and proceeded with the shoot....At first, I wanted to use the 50mm lens to get a creamy background, but due to the lack of light it didnt quite go as planned so I used the 17-50 backup lens that I brought.