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The Bernica Family Reunion
Posted by: | CommentsOh, these guys were great, friendly, and so relaxed…gotta love it! The pictures speak for themselves….take a look!
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Family Reunion in Branson
Posted by: | CommentsWe did a family reunion in Branson this past weekend. They all met up from around the country at some awesome cabins in Westgate Branson Woods. It was O.D. and Helen’s 50th wedding anniversary! How fantastic is that?! Here’s a few sneak peeks from Saturday. It was a blast working with you all and I hope we can do it again sometime. Maybe I’ll have all your names memorized by then! haha!
The Jones Family
Posted by: | CommentsThe Jones family came down to snag some Pure Captures Mother’s Day specialness (it was actually rescheduled from last Saturday when it was pouring rain & storming!) These two kiddos were too cute….I just love that big-cheek baby grin in the last shot of the boys together! My own little big-cheeked boy came with us on the shoot and thought the Jones family was hilarious in the hammock. He kept laughing at them from his stroller….you can see why!
Thanks for coming down, guys – it was great to finally meet you! Your boys are just adorable! I look forward to mine being so fun and playful at those ages!
Branch and Patrick
Posted by: | CommentsBranch came over to play last week and we got some quick shots of the boys with the chicks before the chicks got too big! (I am sad to say that one of them fell to the death today by Patrick’s puppy. It was the one that had previously escaped the box and liked to fly around a lot.)
Anderson House
Posted by: | CommentsThis house is for sale! Check out some details about their home. It’s in a great neighborhood & I have always felt safe visiting our friends who live here.
These images were shot in HDR (High Dynamic Range). I shoot multiple exposures in RAW on a tripod and combine them in some HDR processing software. This enables me to process them in a way that shows details in both the darkest and lightest areas (and have the correct exposure on the blue sky!). It ends up looking more like a painting than a photograph with one exposure, which can be quite contrasty. With the previous homes I posted, they have been either in natural light or I did some layering in Photoshop to create a similar effect to HDR (but was much more time-consuming). For HDR, I can use a program called Photomatix to combine the images, then tone map them to make it look just right. I admit, it was a bit of a learning curve for me, but (just the same way I learned Photoshop skills), I played with the controls and used a lot of the Help Info in the program multiple times before I got the hang of it!
The Carter House
Posted by: | CommentsThey just moved in! These are their “before” pictures. Congrats on your first home, guys!
View from the front door
Laundry Room, off the left of the kitchen
Guest Bedroom
Office/Craft room
Master Bedroom
Swank closet in the master bedroom
The steps to Jonny's Man-Cave
The Man-Cave. My husband needs one of these.
Patrick’s Chickie pics….Round One!
Posted by: | CommentsThe benefit of having a baby around all the time is that whenever one photo shoot doesn’t work out due to their mood, you can always try again tomorrow! So….this is Round One. Round two with his friend Branch turned out much better & will be forthcoming! Thanks to my sister Catherine, who was visiting last week, for taking some of these family shots, herding chickens, and restraining the escapee dog.
We start our story with some mild baby amusement….
Then we move on to some grass-eating…
He finally gets one close enough to catch…
Me: “omg! Get it away from him!”
Good call, chickie…
Chickens = SAVED! Sorry, Cat, I just had to put this one up!
Pretty sure the dog is happier than Patrick by this point.
So we did some tossing….
That worked, and then later, we took pictures with Daddy and Mommy!
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