Christmas Photography 2012

Taking pictures is a bit of an obsession for me.  It’s all my Grandpa’s fault.  I swear.  I don’t remember a holiday, vacation or visit where he wasn’t taking pictures.  The still camera was in one hand, the video camera in his left.  

I don’t do a whole lot in the way of home videos.  But photography?  Yeah.  I do some of that.  Ahem. Understatement.  I wouldn’t call myself a photographer.  (Although I’m dreaming a bit in that direction.)  But I do love to take pictures.  Thanks to my hubby’s awesome gift of a DSLR last year and a basic photography class, I shoot in manual and have been experimenting with all kinds of pictures.

Last year I did some indoor shots using natural lighting and basic manual mode.  You can see them here.  Though looking back I’m not sure I want to link up to those.  Haha.  Anyway, this year I wanted something outside and this is what I came up with.  I hung a few ornaments in the tree, borrowed the awesome red chair from a friend and used the wreath that I put over my mantel for the set.  And viola!  I give you Christmas Photo Shoot 2012. 

Arnie helped me out and held the reflector which resulted in some good catch lights.  I think they’re good enough for a Christmas card and I might have a few prints done for the grandparents.  It was a lot of fun even though the boys cooperated for not quite 30 minutes.

My kids will certainly have tons of memories of the crazy things Mommy did to get the shot.