We totally trashed the dress. And it was soooooo fun. Now my expectations are up for each subsequent shoot I do, great. lol. I literally took hundreds of photos. I widdled 632 pics down to a mere 88 with a hundred more or so that I still really like. The race was on to post our images to the DLS Facebook group so I uploaded these to my web album. Perhaps as I gain more time in my life, or at least, when I’m up in the middle of the night not sleeping, I’ll post some more. They have too many fun memories to stay stashed on my hard drive.
As far as my camera education goes, I was pretty impressed with myself. Not just for some of the images I managed to capture, which got better as the shoot went on, but for the simple fact that I can now look at a picture I took and see what I like about it and what I don’t, and what needs improvement. I am getting a lot better at getting it right “in camera” although there things that still throw me. One issue I have is that I forget to reset ALL my functions suitable for the next shoot. I’ll forget that my ISO is set too high, my WB is off, I have it set for an overexposure of +1.7 etc. It’s not till I take a dozen or so pics that I’ll look at ‘em and say “WTH?” and realize what happened. Oh well, at least I know what went wrong. There was a time, waaaaaay long ago, before the DLS, that I didn’t have a clue how I got that shot. Now I do. Well, okay, it wasn’t that long ago and sometimes I still don’t know what I did, lol but there’s been a massive improvement.
And I am still trying to cool my excitement and try to remember to frame my pic right and get the composure I’m looking for. It doesn’t help when you are on a really fun shoot and you want to capture every interesting thing you see, all the time trying to remember to actually “look” through your viewfinder and get that emotion/ excitement bouncing off your sensor. It’ll come. For now, enjoy these from the TTD session and hopefully I can keep posting more.
Btw, thanks J-L for trashing your dress and letting us all capture it on camera. Fabulous.
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I love them, Heather. And I love that you're loving doing this. I'm really glad I've given you anew drug. ~smirk~ (We'll Indian leg-wrestle for the twins...)
ReplyDeleteGlen's already having issues with my addiction, lol. He's a patient man. I knew I'd love it, but I never knew I'd love it THIS much.
ReplyDeleteBetter start your warm-ups now. lol.
You pictures are incredible, Heather! I love the different angles that we all got on similar shots. It gives everything such a different look. Wasn't this just so awesome?!
ReplyDeleteI love all your pictures. I'm trying not to look at them through my envious eyes since I so wanted to be there for this session! lol You did a fantastic job capturing everything. Love the mood, colours, and story you told through your view. Makes me want to go trash my dress now!
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