These are Eliza’s photos! Eliza ran the lights for everyone else’s photos and is my go-to girl when I need photos of myself. She’s one of the only gals I trust with my camera. Most of these shots were taken while testing lights and were snapped in between everyone else’s sessions. Isn’t she pretty?!
So we started shooting around 8:30ish, and after a couple (a lot) of trial and error shots, Eliza and I finally figured out how to work the ghetto table lamps and floor lamps to get the right lighting effects for different types of photos. I decided to do my photos the very last so I could take care of everyone else first. So, of course, right before it was my turn up, our table lamp fell over and the shade shattered. Which completely wrecked our lighting set up.
So we had to re-rig and re-figure the set up for my photos. I ended up cranking up the ISO on my camera to compensate for the lighting, and the resulting graininess makes me a little sad, but I am still thrilled with the general outcome of these photos.
Being pregnant has NOT made me feel beautiful, so I was a little apprehensive to do some skin baring shots, so I am delighted and surprised with how much I don’t look like the cow that I feel like in this set. Yay! Now I just need to figure out which ones I can send to the husband in boot camp without getting him in trouble….
I wanted to capture some black and white maternity pictures before the madness of Jonathan’s graduation and moving to Pensacola and all that jazz hit. I’m only 30 weeks, but I don’t know if I’ll get another chance to do these types of photos before Tessa is due. So I made very very VERY last minute plans to set up a mini ghetto bed sheet / table lamp DIY photography studio in my friend Bree’s dining room. The lovely Eliza, who did my maternity photos with Jonathan in the Sequoias, took over cameras again.
Since we were going to go through all the trouble of setting up a “studio” I figured I’d take some pictures of my girls as well. And since we were taking photos, we figured we may as well make it a girls night and go all out with a Fresh Strawberry and Citrus Sangria and finger foods and the works. Then we invited some other gals – and it turned into a last minute (like, planned that very day) party.
While ghetto rigging the icky warm tungsten lighting was a pain in the butt, we made do with what we had, and had a blast while doing it. This was my first real “girls night” since Jonathan left for boot camp. Well, I had a *kind of* girls night at Belle’s with the High School Musical marathon, but then Thor ate my couch and made me paranoid to leave my animals alone overnight again.
Anyway, I’ll post some follow up posts of my maternity shots, and some of the other gals images as I edit them!
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