One Shoot in Adverse Conditions - 3 inspiring results

What do you get on a stormy night, with a bit of drizzle and a lot of enthusiasm? Three concepts for shooting in less than ideal conditions. Here is how you can think quickly on your feet and salvage a senior portrait session.

When we arrived at the park, it was still lightly drizzling with the weather predicting a one hour window before sunset, however clouds were constantly looming and lighting was tricky, so I started out under a large gazebo posing my model, Christy, while I sported an umbrella over my shoulder to protect my camera. Here are some of the images working within the confines of the gazebo.

We then moved outside the gazebo once the rain let up using, at first, a frame as a prop, then a brightly colored umbrella. Yes, mine! I thought, why not work with the weather in this situation and have fun.

For this model, who is a very natural beauty, the umbrella shots were some of her favorites from our session. To think, those might not have even happened if it wasn’t for the weather!

Another amazing outcome was the spectacular sunset that occurred. I used this opportunity to use it as a photo backdrop as well as to experiment with doing some dramatic silhouette, artsy style photos.

So the lesson of the day is, if you can work around the weather, you may be pleasantly surprised by the end result. Let it test your quick thinking, challenge your creativity and inspire new approaches to your portrait photography. For more photo inspiration, visit my website.

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Project 365 - Days 116-124 A Springboard for Creativity

Yes, I know, I know, it is about time that I start catching you up on my project-a-day creations. Considering that I am up to day 174, I have a lot of updating to do. Some days it is photography, others it is sketching or art for new digi designs and on the really fun days it involves making projects!!!
Here is the first round. Hold onto your seats cause there is a lot of creating going on!!!

Day 116 - Flower Petal art for new set

Day 117 - Floral Silhouettes for future set

Day 118 - Mod Linear Florals (brush & art for creating sets)

Day 119 - ML Fruity Florals Set

Day 120 - Mod Linear Fruity Florals Invitation Sample

Day 121 - Gardenia Line Art for set

Day 122 - Pic a Year Photos for Kylie's Birthday

I put together photos of Kylie from 3 mos. to sweet 16 as a countdown to her birthday. I posted these on her facebook page from when she was little to present. Here is a slideshow of the images:

Day 123 - Gardenia Digi Stamp Set & Samples





Day 124 - Princess Grad Elements for future set

There is more creativity to come....so check back often!

Not So Clear Skies Ahead!

In light of the fact that a Tropical Storm (soon to be "Hurricane Fay") is looming in the Keys and is on its way here, I thought that it would be appropriate to post this card called Butterfly Skies. It features one of the recently discontinued Stampin' Up In Colors, Soft Sky, with Basic Black ink on Whisper White Cardstock. This spotlighting technique was done by stamping the entire background with bold silhouette flowers and butterflies. Next I used a square punch to remove a section of the background and matted the square in a rounded off black frame before layering on card front. To create the faux wide ribbon effect, glue a strip of b&w gingham ribbon around a strip of black cardstock . Tie white taffeta ribbon around strip, mount "thinking of you" verse on top of layers and adhere to card front. Mount all layers to soft sky card stock to finish.  This was created with one of my favorite new stamp sets, the Essence of Love set from Stampin' Up!

Here's to seeing clear skies again in Florida and for everyone to safely weather this oncoming storm. What a way to start off the new school year.