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While I do lots of FPJ, due to my busy schedule and constant shooting and editing, I just hardly ever do a portrait session with my own kids. More than a year ago, I was doing it so much with them that they were getting sick of it. So it's nice to be busy, but you can't neglect those under your own roof. And with my 91-year-old blind Mom visiting from New Mexico -- some of you may remember her from the photo story of my Dad passing last year -- I decided this weekend to do a backyard shoot.
So here are a few shots from the session showing the different looks I went for with each kiddo. When they were smiling or laughing off-camera, it was due to my wife Beth getting them going, especially Casey. She had him cracking up.
Comments welcome.
1. Casey, 6
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7392/9489972455_627c80bd14_c.jpg
2. Elle, 11
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7406/9498140777_3118e4a70c_c.jpg
3. Mia, 8
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2876/9489971505_96ccff5da7_c.jpg
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http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2882/9490066415_3cae3eef81_c.jpg
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http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3823/9490065693_5d259a9313_c.jpg
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http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5331/9490064707_76427cbd2d_c.jpg
7. My Mom, 91
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3713/9492860420_384f66345c_c.jpg
8. Here was my miss, my failure. We did this shot (check below) last summer and I've decided to shoot a version of it every year for as long as they'll let me. Last year, I was really patient, and had quite awhile to work with the light. This year, I shot this two months later so the light was in a different part of the backyard and I only had a couple minutes of this sunlit backlight left, so I was impatient. I'm trying to decide if I should let this picture represent this version of the shot for 2013, or if I should re-shoot it and get them posed better. Here is the flawed 2013 shot:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7393/9492767958_ded6b20f17_c.jpg
9. Here is the 2012 version that I like a lot. A 24x36-inch canvas print is hanging in our living room. By the way, I used the actual version for the canvas print, and that's why you see each side duplicated at its end. That was the side of the canvas print. Because it is on the side, you don't even notice the redundancy like you do here.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3779/9489972961_df41555422_c.jpg
Edited on Aug 13, 2013 at 12:50 AM · View previous versions
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