At our Spring 2009 photo shoot a few weeks back, once we'd gotten all the smiles and giggles out of Logan that he was willing to give up that morning, we left him to play with Uncle Jim while I shot a couple couple-shots of Audrey & Chris.
Lesson #1: If you're creative, you can find interesting backgrounds in all sorts of places. As of April 11th, the grass in McKinney was still spotted with the yellow-brown of winter and the trees were mostly naked. The evergreen shrubbery in their front yard, however, was a beautiful green that made for a perfect backdrop.
Lesson #2: Hope for adventurous photo subjects. Audrey and Chris are awesome about this... whether I ask them to climb a wall or a tree or, in this case, to sit in their landscaping ... they're game for just about anything.
Lesson #3: Sometimes it's the photographer who has to be adventurous. Audrey and Chris have a beautiful covered front porch which has awesome indirect lighting in the morning hours. But in order to take this shot, I had to climb through their shrub beds and wedge myself between a bush and their porch railing. Chris didn't cringe too much.
Right now, I'm obsessed with texture, so this photo makes me ridiculously happy - what with the brick and the wood and Audrey's hair and ...
These photos were shot with Audrey's new Nikon D300 and an 18-200mm lens at f/5. Mmmm... it still had that "new camera smell..." Thanks for letting me play with your new toy, girl! I'm trying to fight the camera-envy.
