Me & My Girls

I have always done my own family pictures. It's quite a challenge. There are a lot of different issues that make it hard:

1. Using a remote that doesn't work from very far with an 85mm lens
2. Not knowing what faces my kids were making (see K above)
3. Making sure no one looks squished or out of place
4. Having to use my rebel and not my 40D, since I have no remote for it
5. Using manual settings without holding the camera, meaning I set them and hope my light doesn't change, and that no one moves out of focus (see above, K is not as sharp as J and I)
6. Arranging people with such a short focal length, especially when Dad's in them too
7. Not knowing things that my photographer would tell me, if that didn't happen to be ME, like "you have a big curl in your hair...see above....

Or having one eye in the shade......like I do here.... Having to compensate for not one, not two, but three (if dad is here) sets of brown eyes which are the very hardest to get catchlights in. Blue eyes are very very easy. My eyes always have them.

I was just playing around today, checking out some new areas in my yard that I haven't ever gotten to try. Sometime this week, I will work on my "real" ones. I will let you know how it goes. This trial run left a lot to be desired. But it always does. I am a little picky :)