oh my gosh! it has been such a busy couple of weeks, but i can’t tell you all how much fun i’m having! i just want to stay home and edit photos and learn more about photography all day long =) soon enough!
anyway, i am almost done editing the photos from the last blog, but since then i’ve had 4 other shoots and met some pretty awesome new people that i can’t wait to tell you about (including the two gorgeous ladies in today’s POTD). i also continue to learn new things everyday and look forward to continuing to share those things with you guys!
but, without further ado, today’s POTD…this is from a shoot i did at Huntington Beach last night with a mother and daughter. when i came home and uploaded the photos, i went straight to this picture to see if it came out because i was so in love with the idea of the shot but had no idea how it would translate.
i increased the blacks and contrast a bit to define the reflection, as well as increasing the brightness a touch to illuminate it.
and for those of you photo recipe nerds out there like me, here you go: 100 ISO, 2.8 Aperture, and 1/400 Shutter Speed
more to come soon!!
xoxo
jess
OMG Jess, BEAUTIFUL. I love this so much, it is really touching. I love keeping tabs on your work because you continue to inspire me so much!!!
Jess— I KNEW I would love your shots even before I saw ONE… but as soon as I saw this I showed this to my mother (she’s in town for the weekend) and we both LOVED this shot so much. This is EXACTLY what I was hoping you would capture. These fleeting moments—that so often we don’t even remember as mothers, as people… or only faintly as if in a faded dream. Our children move so quickly our memories can’t hope to keep up which is why photographers like YOU are so very important.
I love the reflection and the angle and the color and… all of it. Oh my god–I look forward to more shoots with you in the future as well! Brilliant-brilliant!!! Thank you for letting us play–and capturing our playfulness. I wait with baited breath to see the rest!!!
–Eve
Christina, thank you so much..that really means a lot! Guess what? I just finished your photos! I’m rendering the slideshow now, so I’ll send it your way =)
Eve, your message just blew me away. You are so sweet and I really appreciate what you had to say because it just captured the reason why I’m doing this to begin with…to capture those fleeting moments for people =) So, thank you. I’m so glad you liked the photo, and I can’t wait to get to the rest of them!
Jess, My daughter is Eve, so Morgan of course is my granddaughter, I would like to know what it would take to get a copy of this picture? Wow! I will be in California in Sept, would love to meet you when we are there visiting Ev, Bryan and Morgan…Thank-you for such a lovely picture….Well done!!!
I think you should enter this one in a photo contest. I love it! By the way, how much is it going to cost me to get you to come to Texas and photograph my grandkids, aka your niece and nephew??
haha! omg i would LOVE to! believe me, i’ve thought about it =) are you guys coming out here anytime soon? if not, we need to start saving for some plane tix!