Christmas pics - outtakes!

This one is not an outtake as such, I do like the pic, but didn't want to use it for the card:



These ones are the proper outtakes!

Christmas pics

It's been a while. At this time of year, I tend to find I go into a bit of a funk as I prefer natural light photography, plus 2 of my boys are at an age where they don't really want to cooperate and it just makes things stressful. I did however make time to try and get a photo I could use for Christmas cards. I didn't really get a single shot that I felt I could use. Sure, they were cute, but not really what I had hoped, so decided to use 3 seperate pics of the boys, which in itself created another issue as by the time I tried to get a shot of Z on his own, he was crying.

Here's what I got in the end:







The original of the baby:


The Christmas card!

Smoke

I decided to have a very quick play today while the baby was napping. I don't have any incense, so just used a candle, so only about 30 seconds to capture any smoke made. I can't wait to try this again and get better compositions.

Hednesford Raceway

On Sunday afternoon, we took the boys to Hednesford Raceway to watch the ministox cars, reliant robins and banger car racing. They also had a firework display in the evening. It was a good opportunity to try my hand at firework photography for the 1st time.

Cake smash!

On Sunday morning, I took Zack's cake smash photo's. Well, I say cake smash.... was more of a cake tickle. He liked the cake & icing, but wasn't keen on being too dirty & sticky! I spent yesterday knocking together a collage/storyboard

1st Birthday studio portraits

In the afternoon, we took Zack's 1st birthday portraits on my new seamless backdrop





Playing "where's the baby?"

Happy 1st Birthday little man!!!

Zack's 1st birthday was on Saturday. We didn't have any plans for Saturday apart from spending the day together and having lots of fun. He opened some gifts in the morning with the help of his brothers. I set up the OCF & umbrella so that the lighting would look more natural. Here are the snapshots taken during the morning.