Jana Photography: February 2010

Friday, February 26, 2010

A good move

My daughter and I will be moving to Carlisle. Slowly but surely by June. Will be wonderful to be settled in a central area for us both. Also some room for a small studio in the future. Excited :)

Monday, February 22, 2010

Little man, T is 4 now! His baby sister, is becoming a little person too. Love watching them grow! They were my champions on Saturday! Another photographer was at this location and was shooting a teenaged model..he laughed as I was jumping up and down making funny noises at little R, and said "That's why I don't do kids..too hard" :) I was thinking that's why I do ! So fun and heart warming to get one real smile from the little ones!

this makes me happy to the core!

Friday, February 19, 2010

Just a thought

If you want to give your pictures a quick pick me up...with any program from Photoshop to Kodak picture maker at Wall Mart. If you bump up the contrast and the saturation (color) of the photo it gives it a bit more life. What I do to almost every picture I take.

Some photos of mine that explain what my camera settings were on.

WAS REALLY DARK SO ISO AT 1600 MAKES PHOTO GRAINY BUT I LIKE THE EFFECT. I JUST LIKE THE LOOK OF PHOTOS WITH OUT FLASH.

THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL LIGHT!! BOUT SUNSET.. GETTING LITTLE DARK SO I BUMPED ISO UP. THE FOCAL LENGTH IS WHAT LENS I WAS USING AND HOW FAR AWAY I WAS. I WAS TELLING FRIEND 100MM IS BOUT THE BEST DISTANCE TO BE FOR A PORTRAIT ..IT WILL BLUR THE BACKGROUND LIKE THIS.

IT WAS A DREARY DAY..ISO 800

LOWER LIGHT..DIDN'T WANT FLASH, BUMPED ISO TO 800 WANTED BOTH IN FOCUS SO APETURE AT 2.8

WANTED MORE IN FOCUS SO APETURE IS LITTLE HIGHER AND IT WAS GREAT SUN SO ISO 200

IT'S SUNNY SO MY ISO IS 200 APETURE IS 2.0 STILL ENOUGH TO HAVE HER IN FOCUS

ISO IS HIGHER AND THE APETURE. ACTION MORE IN FOCUS AND FASTER. STILL IN AV MODE. IT'S MY FAV

Thursday, February 18, 2010

This is my day job. I brought my camera and lens with me. It needed to be with me the day after purchase. ;) I decided to play a little.

This saves my life every day. Others around me it saves as well. Ear piece. Answering 150-200 calls a day, without it..I wouldn't be as nice as I'd want to be I'm afraid.

Work has a new meaning the next 13 weeks. We are having our own Biggest Looser contest. This is the scale... "the scale"

ugh. I had an accident involving a softball bat, and my

sweet little daughter at practice.. that has left me with a fractured rib. I can't work out yet.. so losing weight is super hard for me. Counting calories is tiring. I would rather run and sweat it out for an hour and eat the cookie :)

A LOT of yogurt in the community fridge now!!!!

I am trying :) I can't give up coffee or peanut butter..ok I don't like that word but I do feel that way at times. Truthfully, I don't "want" to give it up. I bleed caffeine and peanut butter.

It's hard to drink what you need to when you have to use the restroom more often than you can when you have a phone hooked to your ear :) but we try!

This is Mrs. W...she is my friend and co worker. Makes the day world worth living.

My friend and co worker Mrs. W is a good influence!!!!!!

can you see the Bk coupons..those say to me "eat a burger..and fries, yum"

This is sabotage...

What I should have ate...

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

New lens, so excited!

I am picking up my new lens tonight. I will try it out this weekend with a family shoot. Fingers crossed it will bring me new joys :)

Senior T ...was awesome to work with!!!

I had so much fun with this senior and his mom. I hope my daughter and I can have as much fun someday. I decided after this shoot, it's the one time I'm not going to take her photographs. Thought it would be my gift to her and to myself to watch someone else during this process.