Eli Four Months Old!

Skylann

This is Skylann, one of my sister's friends. He contacted me to help photograph a cover for his senior project CD. 

We had a very short time together and thankfully just as we finished, it started raining. 

I edited these all very differently so that Skylann could choose the feel of what he wanted to use for his CD cover photo. I had a lot of fun with it.

We walked around my neighborhood to get these photos. 

Chase

Chase is a senior at Ballard High School. Our session together didn't go as planned but we got all the shots we needed to in half the time I like to allot. Chase brought two friends, his mom, and his puppy to Alki Beach, which made for a fun shoot! I hope to see him reach his dream of being on the Mariners.

Shooting in RAW

This year, I started shooting in RAW because I heard of its magical powers.

Let me tell you, it truly is magical!

I bought a larger memory card for my senior portrait sessions to handle the huge file size of each photo and am loving the results.

This is from my shoot today with Chase (more photos to come). 

I make plenty of mistakes when it comes to exposure, and thankfully shooting in RAW keeps so much light information to save my photos!

Dayton

This is my cousin, Dayton-- hard to believe how much he's grown up! And into a good-looking man, nonetheless.

He confused me with his new haircut and keeping the tags on his shoes until they fall off, but he photographed surprisingly well for how goofy I know he is. 

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It also helped to have my goofy dad along for this shoot to help out and give me pointers. Dayton only had to look at my dad to start laughing, which worked out to my advantage.

We went to five prime seattle locations for these shots. Normally I wouldn't travel so much, but my dad drove and he knows Seattle like the back of his hand.

And a couple of outtakes that I'm loving...