One afternoon last week I pulled out my stuff and attempted to capture my own headshots. With my camera remote not working I was forced to use the camera's 10 sec timer. Needless to say it didn't work very well! In fact it was very frustrating!
As I was finishing up my kids arrived home from school. Logann my 5 yr.old and future assistant, was anxious to help me. I kept the camera on the tripod, and gave her a quick lesson in focusing, zooming and composition (think that part might have gone over her head).
Anyway she had so much fun with my little project. She is really an amazing kid, listening to her as she plugged along taking shots of me, I realized she had absorbed a lot sessions from the sessions she had seen me do. Occassionally she is home when I have clients come over and she loves to watch.
Everytime she took a picture she would inspect its exposure, whether it was blurry, head chopped etc. She was so precise and determined. And only scared me half to death once by knocking over the tripod with camera attached.
Phew! Luckily no damage.
I think she did an excellent job. Of course there was a tiny bit of photoshop magic applied on my end. Most likely I won't look this polished when I show up to take your photos, I may have a few more wrinkles, and even some grey hair here and there. But why not use Photoshop when you can, it definitely takes the years off!
Sophia her older sister helped pose me...
she said she wanted a silly one of me, so she pulled out her jokes, toilet talk!
the team, Sophia, Logann, and me
That's great! Love it!
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