I'm a pediatric cancer nurse, so I deal with it every day of my life. I don't believe that I've become numb to it, but once something is so routine, your feelings about it are just different. This past week, I had a friend of mine call me and say that her dad has just been diagnosed with cancer for a second time. He beat it once but now it's back. While they're hopefull he'll do it again, they are being realistic that their family structure may change in the next few years.
My friend asked me if I would take their family photos as they've never had professional photos done before and would like the chance to capture the happy times before the chemo starts to make him sick again. So last night we stepped out into the desert sun and had a good time capturing genuine moments of happiness between her, her parents, and her wife. It makes me so sad that this lovely gentleman has to start fighting for his life again, and his family has to watch it happen :-( Even though I deal with cancer every day, this session was new for me and hard to think about the "what may come".
My goal for family sessions this year has been to stray away from the traditional posed sessions and incorporate much more storytelling into the sets. I think I accomplished that here although I still have more to do. I got to get more creative with different angles and points of view, but I'm happy with this set. And these are just the tip of the iceberg for this session!
This set contains 5 different locations and lighting conditions as we moved around through out the golden hour to highlight all the different kinds of light it has to offer. CC is very much welcome. I had a hard time processing so many different lighting conditions in 1 set...
Ditto the previous comments. What a beautiful, vibrant set of pictures that captures the joy and life of this family. Blessings and all the best to your friend's father.
haley - excellent set - but a thought came across my head after seeing your watermark in image #5.
if it is your usual practice to include your watermark in all delivered images, i would suggest to label the images with the family surname and date taken in lieu of your usual watermark. i am sure your friend will remember who took these images.
while i realized my suggestion may generate disagreeing responses, i just think including advertising watermark in these keepsake images would be inappropriate - tom 😊
Oh no, the clients do NOT get watermarked images. I just watermark the images I share on social media and in forums. The clients get ones with no watermark, of course.
tntcorp wrote:
haley - excellent set - but a thought came across my head after seeing your watermark in image #5.
if it is your usual practice to include your watermark in all delivered images, i would suggest to label the images with the family surname and date taken in lieu of your usual watermark. i am sure your friend will remember who took these images.
while i realized my suggestion may generate disagreeing responses, i just think including advertising watermark in these keepsake images would be inappropriate - tom 😊
haley - 😊 kindly ignore my incorrect assumption; my apology.
haleym77 wrote:
Oh no, the clients do NOT get watermarked images. I just watermark the images I share on social media and in forums. The clients get ones with no watermark, of course.
They will treasure these for years to come. I think you did a great job capturing a loving family. I pray for healing and I pray that they find strength to face whatever may come.
You did an excellent job capturing some really nice expressions and photos that they will cherish forever. I'm sorry to hear of their Dad / Husband, cancer does suck. My mother-in-law beat breast cancer and was free of it for 7 years. However, recently experience a seizure and we realized the cancer has metastasized to her brain and liver. The brain radiation seems to have worked, as all the lesions have disappeared, and the tumor has shrunk to 2/3 it's original size. Started chemo for the liver tumor, keeping our fingers crossed. We brought her here to live with us as she was too weak to be on her own.
My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer last Friday. She is hesitant to allow me to take pictures of her. Prognosis is good. Hopefully you're friends dad's prognosis is similar.
Cancer does Suck! Thank you for your work as a nurse.
Your images are great. I love the low angel in #12. I've been shooting quite a few shots like this lately and have been including a little more foreground in mine. Although I don't think I would change a thing on yours. I might have to go back to mine and crop a little tighter.
bpantani wrote:
My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer last Friday. She is hesitant to allow me to take pictures of her. Prognosis is good. Hopefully you're friends dad's prognosis is similar.
I am so sorry to hear about your wife but glad her prognosis is good. Best of luck to you both as you venture down this journey. We're making some great strides in cancer treatment. <3
sundevilstorm wrote:
great job! I recognize Salt River rec area! This will be a treasure for them!
Howdy neighbor! And yup...what a great place for pics, huh?!?! But the river was rather trashed with all the memorial day partiers. makes me so mad how people can just blatantly leave their trash all around :-(
