Ok so not shopping like you might think – I went and picked up a bunch of stuff for the studio and myself that I’ve needed for awhile, kinda happy I got it over with Got three new paper backgrounds and a sheet of plexiglass for the floor as well as another (in a sea of them) memory card – pretty sure I have close to 40gigs now but I am getting ready soon to cycle out a few cards and I wanted a high capacity card for the formals portion of the wedding. I also bought my lens front and end caps that I was missing – now I just have to not loose them before the end of the season – i think this is going to be a very tough goal So here is a photo of the new backdrops and a little area rug I got for baby photos.

I don’t think you actually need to see this but I just wanted to play around and see what the plexiglass was like for the photos. Quite happy so far Brianne will probably get to be the first one to use it on a client though

The next few shots I was playing around with White Balance and Candles – just some silly stuff really but you can see how white balance can really be used to create some funky looks

This one is correct             This is really cool           This one is really warm

This is something I have just really considered trying to play around with, I was always concerned about making white look white but at WPPI I saw some really great photographers but an emphasis on an already really cold and dark sky by using a cooler white balance. We’ll see how that all plays out as far as the photos – I think it would really require the right kind of day to do this. This wedding season is going to be ripe for trying out new techniques, and perfecting the olds ones. Tomorrow I have an engagement session and then Saturday I have a small wedding Should be an interesting weekend – would love to post the engagement photos tomorrow but we’ll see Til then – Amanda