New from Jen's Portrait Studio

And you know, when I say "Jen's Portrait Studio," what I mean is a piece of black velvet hanging from the entertainment center in my living room. 

Priscilla brought the girls over and wanted me to try to get some pics of them and her mom, who was in town until the next day.  We got a couple that were ok, but Elauna didn't want to sit still, and Aowyn was fussy -- it was quite the ordeal. LOL

In these pics, Aowyn is 7 weeks, Elauna is 20 months, and Jake is 26 months.  Jake was getting a little jealous, so I had to snap a few of him, too.  

For the life I me, I can't get Jake and Elauna to sit together for a nice picture.  I think they're going to be FOUR before we get one of those! 

For every great picture I got, I had to snap 5 to 10 average, filler pics.  The hardest part right now  is my camera takes like 3 seconds between pictures to reset, and that's an eternity when you're trying to have a "portrait session."  I want a new camera so bad!!!

I went on Amazon.com today to look for books on photography -- that search brought up 75,701 titles!  Holy cow!  There's even one called "A short course in Nikon D70 photography" (that's my dream camera.)  I can't find crap in the local libraries about photography, and even the bookstores are pretty limited. 

(For the life of me, I can't figure out how to get Jake to stop making that obnoxious face in the first pic of him!!!  He's been doing that for over a year and he thinks it's hilarious!)  Hope you like these pics.  ;o)

Comments

[Amy]

Your pictures are so cute! What a great idea of the black fabric hanging! I too love taking pictures. I'm stuck in Anne Geddes mode though, I make my son roll around in rose pedals and sit on pumpkins all the time.
Keep taking lots of those great pictures!

[Sue]

Your pics are awesome. And Jake just wouldn't be Jake without that cheeky little grin, I love it! Aren't Elauna and Aowyn just the prettiest little girls you've ever seen?

[emily]

Great pictures!

[Pink Stuff!!!!]

Hey there! Let's open a studio together. I just love taking pix of kids, but also like stills and geometrics.

When I was in Orlando visiting Mike & Angela, we went to Sears to take Nathan's pix. Mike was so funny, he said hurry up Mom, there's no one in here now - you can take Nathan's pix. I do declare, that boy is lookin' to get me put in jail for unauthorized use of Sears Photography studio!

Great job on the photos. I did Chris' graduation pix with a huge piece of black satin hung from the sliding glass door.

See Ya Later!

[Kelly]

Beautiful pics with beautiful subjects as well! :):)

[Tanya]

Hey girl!
I keep trying to e-mail you, but it has been sent back to me several times! Arrggg-
OKay, so I have been talking about buying fabric and taking pics of the kids for about a month now. Today, I am finally going to do it with some extra $ I had saved up for a rainy day. I am thinking of getting just one black and one white sheet. Then I will have the basics for a back ground. My question for you is this-- I was thinking of putting the kids all in a dark turtle neck and jeans. Then switching them all to a white turtle neck for another shot. The shot I want for the christmas card is a set up like your family picture on your blog. I just want the kids from chest up. I want to then make the picture black and white. DOyou have any suggestions. Obviously, I will use the opposite color back grounds---( white turtle neck-- black back ground)but do you have any other tips? I plan to do this all this afternoon-- the kids get out of shcool. I will e-mail the pictures to you and you tell me what you think. Can you e-mail me-- so I can just reply to your e-mail addy becasue I am having such a hard time getting the e-mail addy I have to go through?
tbaksha@sbacglobal.net.
Thanks a ton! I look forward to talking to you all about photography.

[Tanya]

DUH!!!! I forgot to mention-- I LOVE the pictures you took!!! :)