Little Miss Piper brought her whole family to the beach to play. Her mom and dad chased her on the sand, her grandma kissed her cute cheeks and her uncle lifted her high in the air while she squealed. Piper is independent and unabashedly herself. She also isn't stingy with the smiles and giggles. :)
That photo up there makes me smile. :) I love the way that Kannan and his dad play. And Kannan's relationships with his mom and sister are oh-so-sweet. Take a look at this fun family, and check out how much more grown up Kannan looks from just last year!
You all make one ridiculously good-looking family!
THAT is a belly laugh at it's finest! Thanks for hanging out with me, Kannan!
I've been having SO much fun playing with film the past couple months. Film photography is something I've loved since I started on this journey, but I've always been terrified to jump in because (shock) it's way different than digital! I take comfort in being able to look at the back of my camera and know that I nailed a photo … or not. And you just can't do that with film! Film is old school (yes, you actually load a film roll into the back of the camera), BUT you just can't emulate the look with digital … at least not 100%. No matter how you try. And I've tried. :) My style has always lent itself to film--I love bright, clean, light-filled photos--so stylistically it makes sense for me.
And so, after coveting film photography for three years, I decided that it's time to give it a whirl. It might be scary, but scary things push you and make you better, right? I recently bought a Mamiya 645 so that I could start to learn and play with different film stocks. I've had fun testing the camera on inanimate subjects, but I knew that I had to learn to use my Mamiya on people sooner or later.
Enter my little brother, Barry, and his girlfriend, Daralyn. These two were gracious enough to be my first subjects in a four-part mini shoot series. Over the next month, I'll be testing different lighting situations and locations and subjects with my Mamiya. Already I can tell this is going to be the BEST way to learn. Thanks ahead of time to everyone who's agreed to help me out!
What makes film so unbelievably great is that these photos are basically SOOC (straight out of camera). I may have done one or two tweakings (plus changed that right photo to black and white), but compared to the editing I usually do with my digital photos, this took me a fraction of the time. And it just looks so pretty!
Growing up, everyone thought Barry was the older sibling because he's a tad on the tall side (ha!), but it's true, he's younger than me.
Love, love love. Daralyn felt silly doing a photo on her own, but I think it's so cute!
And let's add in a couple digital snaps for good measure, shall we? Nathan shot with my 5dmarkiii while I was on film ...
Fuji 400H | Richard Photo Lab
This little boy could not be more loved. Kannan's family followed him around Huntington Beach for an hour, pausing to pick him up and swing him around, showing him the sand and water, kissing his (adorable) cheeks. And I got to follow them around and document all of it. This is why I love family sessions; my style is very photojournalistic and my goal is always to show what it's really like to be a kid. It's always nice to have a posed family photo, but it's also nice to remember what being 1 year old is like. So here's Kannan at 1. (And have you seen his hair??)
