Noah

I had my first photo session yesterday with Allison and her 14 month old son, Noah.  Allison had replied on The City to my ad and I was totally excited for my first "clients".  Now The Journey is a pretty large church and so it was pretty funny that when Allison got out the car we recognized each other because we are both leaders for the youth group.  (Later I had a realization that I knew Noah from Journey Kids from Wednesday nights last spring)  So we met at Forest Park at one of the ponds and I went at it.  I realized a lot of things during this first session that I need to improve upon (even though this is a hobby I'm very much of a perfectionist and my husband needed to keep reminding me that I'm doing this for fun):

1. When switching locations or settings on my camera, take a shot then look to see if you have everything correct don't keep taking pictures then look because then you have a whole bunch of pictures in a row that are awful because your settings are wrong. (duh!)
2. I need to get better at suggesting new "poses" or locations or you get a ton of pictures in one spot.
3. Somehow when taking pictures of little kids you need to be able to hold your camera still (if you don't have a stand) and get the kid's attention somehow...  
4. I have an artistic background and somehow under pressure (remember this is a fun thing) I forget everything cool that I thought about while planning for this shoot.

I may just being hard on myself, but that's how I work and I think the pictures turned out fairly well for my first time and they're just for free right?  Who can argue or be upset with that?



He is a very cute kid.