My photography goal

My friend Anne was kind enough to let me use her family to practice taking pictures.  I got some fun ones of her kids, but not really any great ones of the whole family.  Taking pictures of kids is HARD!  I will taking any tips on how to get everyone to look at you at the same time, just once.  I think I prefer to take less posed shots, but people like one of those (everyone looking shots) every now and then.  Maybe I can take a class on that when I get back into college someday. 

Anywhooo.  Here’s my goal- to be good enough at taking pictures of my kids so I can capture beautiful memories that don’t cost me $400 plus bucks every time I want a good picture.  And I want to be good on my digital camera so that it costs me nothing but my time and my camera.  Then once I am good enough I can take pictures for my friends too, for free.  Just for fun. Because I enjoy it.  I have a lot of fun learning and taking pictures.  I hope to play more with my film camera, because I think film is beautiful.  But, my digital is also satisfying my need to take a good quality quick pic of my kids.

I need to capture my babies  eyes, so I can remember the way they looked at their mama.  ahhh yeah… sweet babies and funny toddlers.

Here are some of my favorite from two different days with the S family-

Above- Favorite picture of the boys-  I want to paint this in watercolors

I love that his face was all dirty-

He did not want to look at the camera- I think it worked out though

Best Picture of the day-  I think he was trying a Jedi mind trick on me hahaha….ahh good times

Family Photography

This is the beautiful Olsen family.  I asked them if I could take pictures of their family to practice my skills   They were kind enough to say yes.  Here’s how it turned out.  Hope you budding photographers (like myself) out there can take something away from these, like family posing or something good…  These were taken at Lake Dixon in Escondido CA.

Big THANKS Olsen Fam!

Photo Challenge!

It’s that time of year- Plant your garden!

Contest Closed

I feel like it’s good to have a little photo challenge every now and then to remind yourself that you need to use your camera and/or experiment with it.

Here is my challenge: Go out to your garden, or your moms, or neighbors, or friends…or the city’s and take an abstract picture of a plant.  Something that you could hang on a wall if you wanted.  I know that’s how I fill my walls when I can’t afford to buy someone else’s art.

So!  Go take some pictures, send me one of your favorites, and maybe win a prize! The only prize I have at the moment are these hair bows…

Here are some examples of picture I took last week of my peas.

Send me your garden pictures to LYNNSPINS@GMAIL.COM by April 13th 2010.  I will post the top three and declare a  winner on  Wednesday, April 14th.

Good luck!  Get crazy with your picture taking self!

Baby Elle

I like to take pictures A LOT!  I am definitely not a “photographer”,  there’s a lot I don’t know yet about photography.  I like to think of myself as a picture taker

“Lynn the Picture Taker”

These are some pictures of my best friend’s new baby.  I asked her if I could take these, just for fun and for practice.  She was nice to let me practice with her family, who is gorgeous by the way!

Thank you C Family!

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