Project 52, Week 26 {Personal Photography Project}

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Kim Hill

This week's theme is "Food".  After weeding the vegetable garden this morning, I found that it was time to start picking the first of our summer crop – scallions and leaf lettuce.  In a another week, the cherry tomatoes should be ready, too, which will make for a great salad topper.  🙂

For those interested in camera settings, I shot this on my kitchen counter after giving the food a quick bath.  I used my Canon 24-70L handheld at 58mm, ISO 640, 1/125th at F2.8.

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Project 52, Week 25 {Personal Photography Project}

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Kim Hill

Last Week's theme was "Black & White".  The school had their annual spring band concert which our oldest son participated in.  This was his first year playing trumpet. 

I've never photographed anything on a stage before and to say the lighting was challenging would be an understatement.  The stage lights were all from above and cast a hideous orange color, there was no directed spotlights from behind the audience, and the sheet music and shiny instruments made for some seriously blown out highlights.  I did the best I could given the situation (and that we were not allowed to use a flash), but wasn't really thrilled with the way the images looked.  So what better reason to change these to Black & White right?  :) 

This particular image is a tiny portion of a much larger image including more of the band members.  But for privacy reasons, I decided to crop it down to show my son just in case the other parents wouldn't want their kids' photo posted online.  :)  For those interested in camera settings, I shot this with my Canon 70-200L handheld at 200mm, ISO 3200, 1/100th at F3.2.

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Senior Portraits for Sara {Cicero, NY photographer}

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Kim Hill

Sara, my very last 2012 senior, came in last month for her senior portrait session.  Michelle Maw came over to do her make-up and hair.  She did a great job at bringing out Sara’s natural beauty.  🙂  Here’s a look at just a few of my favorites:

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Best wishes to you as you head off to college this fall, Sara!! 🙂

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Project 52, Week 24 {Personal Photography Project}

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Kim Hill

This week's theme is "Home" and rather than take a boring shot of my own home, I decided to capture our baby birds' home – their nest.  These are baby house sparrows which are nesting in our burberry bush out back.  A few weeks ago, there were 6 tiny eggs.  Five of the eggs hatched.  These appear to be the only 3 left as I have not seen the other 2 hatchlings in over a week.  I suppose they could be tucked under these three, but probably not likely.  Anyway, they are so darn cute and have no problem with me pushing the foliage aside in order to take their photo.  Their momma, though, is a total spaz (see last week's Project 52 theme "Hidden").  She jumps around from bush to bush, then to the grass, then to the tree, squawking at me the whole time.  Ha ha ha – she's gonna tire herself out trying to protect those babies.  😉   For those interested in camera settings, I shot this with my Canon 24-70L handheld at 70mm, natural light, ISO 1000, 1/60th at F4.5.

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Project 52, Weeks 22 & 23 {Personal Photography Project}

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Kim Hill

Forgot to post my Project 52 last week so I've got two themes for you today.  Last week's theme was "up close".  This is the turtle that has been visiting our yard daily for almost 2 weeks now.  Hubby keeps turning him around and sending him back to the swamp, but he comes right back the next day.  A good size hole has been dug in the side of the hill where this little guy keeps going…hubby though maybe we'd find turtle eggs there some day soon.  As of today, no eggs.  But that's okay cuz I really don't want the turtle to lay eggs in the side of the hill as it's too easy a spot for our dog to get at.  Those eggs wouldn't stand a chance if they were laid there.  LOL  For those interested in camera settings, I was lying on the ground very close to the turtle and shot this with my Canon 24-70L handheld at 70mm, ISO 200, shutter speed 1/100 at F 5.0.

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Now this week's theme is "hidden".  While I was checking in on the baby birds nesting in our burberry bush, their momma came around and kept a watchful eye on things.  She was very brave at first, but then flew up into the birch tree out of my reach.  I only had my 24-70mm lens on, so she is actually a teeny tiny blip on the full size image, so I've cropped it a tad closer so that you can see her better.  :)  For those interested in settings, this was shot from underneath the tree, using my 24-70L, handheld at ISO 640, shutter speed 1/640 at F2.8.  I was previously taking pics of the babies and probably should've lowered the ISO when I swung around to snag this shot of their momma.

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Project 52, Week 21 {Personal Photography Project}

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Kim Hill

Last week's theme was "water".  My family ventured north for a day at the cottage with my parents.  We couldn't have asked for nicer weather….mid 70's and a light breeze.  :)  The boys were quite eager to go swimming when we arrived.  I warned them that the water would be cold.  They said, "It's okay, Mom."  Then they put their feet in and realized just how cold it really was.  You see, the lake is spring fed which means the water never really warms up much except along the shoreline where it's shallow.

In the image below, our youngest (7 years old) had just learned how to snorkel and was watching the small perch and sunfish swimming around.  He was mesmerized.  🙂

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For those interested in camera settings, I shot this Motorola Xoom tablet. Trying to interpret the camera settings in the Exif data is interesting.  The only thing I know for sure is that it is ISO 100.  The aperture value is listed as 14/5 and the shutter speed is listed as 3/5000. So my interpretation of that is F2.8 at 1/166th of a second  (but I could be wrong).  No editing done here other than to resize and sharpen for web.  But, I also posted this photo through Instagram and used a tilt-shift effect which was pretty cool.  You can see that on my Facebook page.

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Project 52, Week 20 {Personal Photography Project}

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Kim Hill

Last week's theme was "Old".  My family went with our scout pack to the Buffalo and Erie County Naval Park yesterday and most everything there is what I would considered old.  We had the chance to tour two ships and a submarine that were used in WWII, and even spent the night sleeping on the larger ship shown here.  This is the USS Little Rock.

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For those interested in camera settings, I shot this with my Fuji Finepix P&S zoomed out to 14mm at ISO 100, 1/350th at F6.4, no flash, handheld.

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Project 52, Week 19 {Personal Photography Project}

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Kim Hill

Sorry I'm late in posting last week's Project 52 image.  I was busy doing a couple of portrait sessions, and then had some editing to do for another photographer.  By the time I actually got around to shooting this, it was Saturday.  And then the weather was just too nice to not stay outside and enjoy it.  🙂

Anyway, the theme for Week 19 is "nature".  This is a large silk moth which measures about 7 inches across.  He was sitting out on our compost pile behind the barn…just hanging out.  LOL  I am in awe of how furry his body is and those long feathery antennae were pretty cool to see.  I've never seen anything like this before.

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For those interested in settings, this was shot in natural light at ISO 200, 1/60th sec at F4.5, using the 135L lens, handheld.  I must admit that this is a tad soft on focus…I only was able to get a couple shots of him and none of them were super crisp.  Oh well…maybe next time.  😉

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Product Feature: Image Folios {Senior portrait photographer, Kim Hill}

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Kim Hill

Last year, I started offering these beautiful custom image folios for all my boudoir clients.  But recently, I had some inquiries about this product for high school seniors.  So here’s a look at the newest sample. This is the outside.  Each folio is custom designed so you can choose the colors, text and overall look of the product.  You can opt to have your photo wrap fully from front to back, or I would be happy to design and incorporate some digital artwork (as I’ve done on this one).

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When opened up for display, you will see the two 5×7 raised panels:

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When closed, the spine displays whatever text you’ve chosen.  It could be a name, a class year, the school your teen is graduating from, or even a simple quote.  Lots of ideas to consider.

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This would look terrific on an office desk, decorative shelf, or even on a night stand.  The image folio measures 7 inches tall by 5 inches wide when folded.  It has a custom image cover that wraps across the front and around to the back, and then two raised images on the inside.  The images are printed on a smooth matte professional grade photographic paper.  This product is available as an add-on with purchase of any package.  Be sure to ask about it when you come in for your session, or even at your pre-session consult.

Are you ready to book your own senior portrait session?  Click the link below to get started. 🙂

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Project 52, Week 18 {Personal Photography Project}

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Kim Hill

This week's Project 52 theme is "Laughter".  The other day I received a portrait order and everything was wrapped in bubble wrap.  The boys absolutely go crazy for this stuff so I knew that it would be a perfect way to get some natural laughter and smiles.  Here's our youngest:
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For those interested in settings, this was shot in natural light at ISO 250, 1/125th sec at F3.5, using the 24-70L lens at 63 mm, handheld.

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