Photography School Drop Out

Appropriately titled, if I do say so myself.

For the record, I'm just learning and a little hard on myself

Hilarity! At some points - please keep in mind that I have one of the most talented, patient mentors in photography who was willing to give up her and her daughter's time on a HOT Saturday evening!!!

When we arrived at the Botanicals, guess what I was missing.

1. This,

2. and a little of this,

3. and a whole lot of this:

BRAINS!

But, Debbie pressed on and being a Canon person, was able to figure out the Nikon settings in a jiffy. We headed on our shoot - only made it to one garden - Due to the missing items above, we ran out of a little of this:

Sunlight!

Like all good photogs do, Debbie and I had discussed what I wanted out of these pictures. Well, by golly, these are some of their most precious summer outfits and at Susie's wedding I got a picture of them like this:

AND This:

AND don't forget this:

Not so much one really cute one that I might want to frame. So I told Debbie, ultra traditional, ultra southern, gates, gardens, columns, you know straight out of a Southern Living and well I forgot that my kids are crazy and here's what that will get ya:

But look at some of the good ones we did get. And I say we, because Rickey got most of the better pictures. And who is in photography class, but yours truly!? Urgh!! I am going to keep learning because at the end of the day, no matter what you set out to get, if you get a little of this:

who can complain about that?

And as an update, I learned more about applying some skillz in our two hours with Debbie than ever! And during class tonight, I thought of more questions and more ideas.

So, it is forever the learning process.

And in the meantime, I still will insist on hiring my favorite photographers, www.southernsoulstudio.com & www.clickphotodesigns.com!!