Project Mom {week1}

As a photographer, I follow many other photography blogs and am constantly plugged into various forums in order to learn new things! Constant learning is so essential in the digital photography field as is constant practice! Before I had my sweet baby boy, I prided myself in being able to pick up my camera every other day to work on my technique... now-a-days, I find this to be a more , lets say, challenging task...

I recently had a discussion with a photographer friend who has embarked on what she calls "365". In an effort to be a better photographer, she decided that she would daily pick up her camera and have a featured shot of the day to blog about. I thought this was an absolutely fabulous idea and have really enjoyed seeing her grow in new ways with each post! I felt so inspired! I thought about ways in which I could implement something similar for my own practice and growth. "Project Mom" is what I came up with!!

Project Mom initially formulated in my brain as being a daily thing as well, focusing my attention primarily on my son and all things mommyhood. I thought, "what an incredible gift to be able to give to my little guy years down the road... a daily documentary of his first year!" Than I snapped back into reality and realized that some days, I'm lucky if I have time to take a shower. Ha! Instead, I have decided to make Project Mom a weekly thing. Through this, I hope to learn some new things, develop my technique in new and unique ways, and capture this incredible time in my life with photographs!

So here are my images from this week. Thanks again to my photog buddy who inspired me and gave me a push to keep using my camera on my off days!

Play time!!
I was shooting with my super wide angle lens for some cool depth of field perspective and lots of beautiful bokeh with an open aperture!

taken with my sigma wide angle at  f2.8, 1/40, at 18mm.

Portrait practice!!

I find that with my new studio, I am booking toooons of babies and children with parents wanting fun and unique portraits! What better way to stay in practice! This was a new shirt that Dad came home with one day... can you tell we have a Star Wars fan in the house?

taken at 20mm, f4, 1/160 iso 800 in natural light studio on a drearier day... (light was tough!)