The Shoshana Session

We're back from the OC, so so so so tired!! I have a ton of pics to post, especially of the boys' Christmas, but I thought I'd post these first. Shoshana agreed to be my model this weekend and we had a quick impromptu session at her house while I worked stuff out. I think they turned out decent for my first session, although, reviewing... I'm seeing some glaring amateur mistakes. Oh well, the only way I'll learn is to keep snapping.

Without further ado...

here is my first session with the gorgeous Shoshana!

My New Lens

I have the most awesome man in the world. He just got me the 50mm lens I wanted for Christmas. I'm so retardedly lucky.

Anyway, here's a couple of quick shots I took with it, still getting used to the fixed lens, but it's spectacular and I'm in deep love.

Christmas Gift for my Scrappy Friends!

Okay, so as a Christmas gift for my scrappin' friends, I have made a 5x7 card sized collage for all of those awesome Christmas pics you'll be taking, just think what cute Thank You notes you can make!!

Here is an example of my New Year's Card made with the template.

This is for Photoshop, dudettes. Click here to download!

TEMPLATE

My Boys

So, I was going to take Yorick to the park today to get some cute pics since I'm so annoyed with the very expensive, very ugly Santa pic that we had done yesterday... but it rained and rained all day. 

So while Yorick was napping, I took some shots of Phineas by the window and then Yorick got up and joined in. His face looks like that because he fell asleep on the carpet in his room. ;)

and yes, they're the same pics as on my facebook, I just like sharing, okay?

Why So Serious?

Monsterkid got into Mommy's lipstick today.

The world's biggest mess ensued.

Awesome.

The Hero Within

The Dark Knight wins best movie all year, hands down, for me. I can't believe what an awesome performance Heath Ledger gave. It makes me sad in a way, since everyone is saying it was his undoing... he got a little too into character. /cry

On a positive note, I'm calling all my costumed geek friends. The first weekend of February, Josh and I will be down in Orange County for the kid monster's 2nd birthday. I am looking for models who want to show off their cosplay costumes and would like a few awesome shots of themselves in them. Josh and I are toying with the idea of taking professional photography to the costumed nerdy masses. You'd certainly feel silly going to a very good photographer and be like, "Hey, take a picture of me in my Hogwarts uniform." But then again, you've spent $XXX amount of dollars on your Hogwarts uniform and only have pics of yourself with con bags and badges or outside of a movie theater or inside a bookstore wearing it. (I have no personal experience whatsoever here. >.>) 

We're going to be gathering some interest at Comic Con this year to see how this would fly (this would be included with my regular kid and family business), so I need some models for some portfolio work. And just think... you'll be able to cherish your costume in a beautiful photo forever, no matter how many frappucinos you spill on it afterwards. Hit me up if you want to dust off that Starfleet Uniform, yo and we'll pencil you in for a session the first weekend of Feb.

Today

Long time no blog!! I know, I know, I suck.

The holidays have me really down. And not for the reasons you might think (or maybe they are the reasons you think)... I really like doing stuff for my friends during the holidays, baking, entertaining, etc and being so far away from home, this makes it nearly impossible. I just want to be settled so much, Josh has always felt like home to me from the moment he kissed me, but being so far from Orange County has made me really homesick. I'd really like to find a cute little house to fix up and call our own and money sucks right now.

I love giving stuff for the holidays and money is so tight right now that it's making it nearly impossible and this just... makes me depressed and a little crazy. Being a Sahm is rewarding in it's very special and unique way, but it wreaks havoc on our bank account. 

Hopefully I'll just keep learning about my gorgeous hobby and maybe, maybe maybe we'll make a little extra income from it in the near future. 

I've been sifting through some professional photography sites and it makes me cringe just thinking about posting my stuff, but I have to show off my beautiful boys somehow!! This is some shots from this morning that I took:

TFL!! We'll be down in SoCal on the 23rd or 24th and we'll likely stay until probably the 29th? I'll see you guys then!!