Week 6 has just wrapped up, and week 7 is in full swing! Last week was so busy that I didn't really have a chance to work on any selfies like I did for week 5, but I'm pretty happy with the results. As always, it's challenging to keep the images fresh. It's also challenging to take decent pictures indoors, because I don't like use my fancy-shmancy flash, and while the lighting inside my house is great during the day (we face east), it sucks bananas big-time in the evening. We don't have any overhead lights in any of our rooms except for bathrooms and the kitchen, which I suppose is a good thing from a photography standpoint, but I wish that the lights were a bit brighter. I usually have to shoot at a high ISO (like 10,000). ISO1600 is normally a death knell for most point-and-shoot cameras, because you end up with SUPER-GRAINY images. Fortunately, my über-expensive camera can handle itself pretty nicely, even at ISO10,000. Still, I'd rather be shooting under better lighting conditions.
Enough of that rant. Time for some photos!
I really wanted to get a good capture of my hubby kissing my daughter, and to me, this one was the "IT" shot. His weekend stubble of course adds to the whole scene.
Monday was the Family Day holiday, and I'd promised my daughter that we'd make something out of clay together. We were supposed to make mugs, but then she decided that she wanted to make a crown.
Tuesday's photo was taken after school. If it looks like my daughter is in her PJs, it's because she is! Tuesday was pajama day in her class, and she was totally excited about it! When we got home from school, she had a mini-chocolate-cupcake as a snack. I'd made some colored icing the day before, and we iced cupcakes together. Unfortunately, hers got messy. She hates it when her hands get gooey and sticky like that. Out comes the camera!
My daughter is getting into games now (Chess, Snakes & Ladders, Trouble, and Go Fish). This was taken on Wednesday evening, after we came home from her yoga class. She wanted to play Go Fish. My hand even made it into the photo. (Does that count as a selfie?) If I recall correctly, she whooped my arse.
This shot was taken on Thursday morning, though you'd never tell by looking at the edit. I'm having fun experimenting with different editing styles. A little easier to do with my own photos, as opposed to client photos. :) My daughter was showing me how to surf, and was singing her own rendition of "Surfin' USA".
I decided to use two photos for Friday. I was at my daughter's school to take pictures of her class' Chinese New Year celebrations. We celebrated it about 2 weeks late, but I hear that there is an acceptable celebration threshold, and we just managed to squeak in. With it being a Montessori school and all, her teacher wanted the children to be involved in the food prep, rather than in just eating it. So we had 4 parents come in with ingredients and the children helped to assemble them into various dishes. This is a photo of my daughter and her friend making rice paper rolls. The children had more fun making the food than the had eating it.
This is another capture from that day. There was a mirror across from the table where I was sitting, and I caught my daughter's reflection. Artsy-fartsy shot, if I do say so myself!
I took Saturday's photo after returning from a family photo session. The session was lots and lots of fun, and it was lots of work too! Although I don't find my camera to be particularly heavy, its weight becomes more apparent once I've been holding it and squatting with it for a couple of hours. Even though I wanted nothing more than to collapse on the sofa when I got home, I just had to take this picture. My hubby was cuddled up to my daughter on the sofa, telling her a story.
Stay tuned for Week 7 photos. As usual, you can check the previous 365 posts, which I've grouped nicely here. Or keep up-to-date with daily pics on my Facebook page. And don't forget to follow the blog for promos, events, session summaries, and more!
