On the second day, the sun came out and we were able to go play in the yard. Grammy’s house is a cabin in the woods. So we headed out to take some family pics for the photo album. Things started out a little slowly at first. Travis wasn’t super exited for the posed shot at first. Evi is just a big ham and was ready to go from the get-go!
I didn’t want to burn the kids out with too much posing, so I decided not to set up strobes, even though I really wanted to! The sun was bright and it was mid-day, but I just wanted the boys to have some fun. So I pointed them at some small trees that they could climb and shot away! These next shots are with the 85mm 1.4 shot wide open. I love the background blur! Well, other than the crazy mad adorableness of the nephews. Can you believe that spell-check says that ‘adorableness’ is a real word?
After I ran out of ideas of how to trick the boys into doing things that I thought would make great photos, we headed back onto the porch. Next I decided to trick them into smelling the flowers so I could take ridiculously cute photos of young boys stiffing flowers. You might think that I would be beyond that level of cheesiness, but clearly I’m not! Can you believe that spell-check says that ‘cheesiness’ is a real word?
Last up we have some extreme close up eye photos! I love these! The Nikon tilt shift is also a macro lens. Handy. :>)
by stevez
no comments