I love it when I have a purpose for my Saturday. That it's not just filled with cleaning house and getting things ready for Sunday. Today was one of those. I met this young man bright and early to take some late, winter senior pictures. Here are a few of my favorites.
This is Kamron. He wasn't really comfortable smiling, and it was cold! I was wearing thermals under my jeans, three pairs of socks, two thermal tops, two sweatshirts, a big down coat, and heavy, thick fingerless gloves. Kamron was wearing this. But he was a great photography subject. Not a single blinking eye in the whole batch of pictures we took.
I was practicing backlighting on these first few pictures. I still need some practice, but these are the best I've done :) I was reading my camera's manual, brushing up on backlighting techniques when I ran across a section that said, "This camera works in temperatures as low as 14 degrees. It was currently 0 degrees at 7:30 this morning and I was pretty worried about my camera freezing up. Towards the end of the hour we managed to stay out and shoot, most of my pictures were blurry, but luckily we got a lot of good ones early on.
Kamron was such a sport! He even took off his jacket a few times, despite the cold, so he would have some variety. I titled this one above, "movie star"
Here is one with a cute, natural smile. I was pretty much a popcicle by the time we were done. I can only imagine how cold Kamron was. And, despite the cold, it was a great way to start a Saturday morning.
