Fashion Photo Shoot

Was at a rehearsal for a fashion show that I will be shooting next week.  I can't decide which aspect of my photography I enjoy doing more, pet portrait, landscape/botanical, or fashion.  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE all aspects of what I do, but each one evokes different emotions.

Pet portraiture is SO much fun, and (not to be immodest) it comes really easy to me.  I love to be around pets/animals.  I feel as if I have a natural connection to them and I ALWAYS receive comments about how their pet is never that comfortable around anyone else.  And just like that, I am able to capture their pet's true persona.

Landscape/Botanical photography is the "beautiful" side to my photography.  I love to see, smell and be around and within plants and flowers and in an completely serene environment.  My mood becomes so relaxed and calm.  I don't ever have to try at getting good shots with plants, mother nature does it all on her own.  Sometimes just the vibrant color of a bright red flower beaming in the sun makes the picture.

And then there's fashion photography.  I don't know if it's the glitz and glam of the models, the buzz of the people around the catwalk or the models barreling down that catwalk in fabulous clothes and accessories...but I get a HUGE adrenaline rush as I'm snapping away throughout the show.  I love the prep that goes into it, the anticipation just before the show starts, and then BOOM! the first model stomps the runway and the lights start to pop!  Then the posing, the looking straight down the lens, the sassy flirtation at the crowd...sooooo much fun!

I guess I can use the analogy that the different aspects of my photography are like your very own children.  You love them all for the different persons they are, but you love them all just the same.

Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed taking them! :D

I was looking at a cat outside of my kitchen window this morning.  He had no idea, no clue, no concept of the fact that somewhere nearby, someone was watching him.  He lay there as if in his own world with he being the observer of it all.  All the while being watched himself.

It got me to realize that, as we travel along our daily life and routine, even though we are in our house, in our car, walking in the mall with a friend, sitting at our desk at work or working on a sales floor, we are unknowingly being watched.  Not as to be ogled or stared at, necessarily, but just witnessed.  We are not the sole proprietor of this our world, other people live here too.  

And as an insight, stepping out of my own realm of comfort, I understand that we should not go through life complacent.  Stop.  Look.  Listen to EVERYTHING around you.  It only lasts one life time.

Always shooting

Ok, so my fiance had to go to her Orthodontist to get her braces removed.  I didn't hear "getting my braces removed" I heard "photo op" "nature shoot" "new texture pics", so, obviously, I tagged along and had my gear in tow.

I always have photography on the brain (and if my brain were a camera I would have a ton more, really neat, photos) and am always looking for that opportunity to capture that next fleeting moment. With today's advent of effin' awesome technology everyone and anyone can take advantage of the equipment they currently own and get really good pictures.  Even if you don't own a camera that costs as much as a small luxury car, most everyone has a camera phone, and phones fit in your pocket whereas big, bulky, expensive cameras do not.  That lends to more opportunities to be in the moment and seize it (Carpe photo)!  What's more, if you own an iphone or smartphone with Android, you can drop free apps that add cool and fun effects to an otherwise plain photo of a tree, or a car, or cute kitty etc.

Here are some examples of the pics I  took at my outing to the Orthodontist...enjoy, and let yourself be creative!

More pics from my trip on www.lafmilphotography.smugmug.com...it's my new website, still under construction, but in working condition!