12/365 Self Portrait

Hi Everyone! So, yesterday was kinda a bad day. ><>< And I ended up not even being able to SEE my camera, never mind taking it out of it's bag all day. =P So today I decided to dedicate to photography. =D I've been really wanting to get started working on portrait photography again (Something that I haven't really done properly in two years. =P) but have found it difficult to get the motivation up, as I knew I'd work on it all day if I got started. =P So! Due to my lazyness yesterday, today was the day! This was one of the pictures I took earlier during the day. =) I liked how the lighting turned out and everything. =) (I also found out it's hard to take a picture of yourself with a remote. =P) But yeah! I feel like this is a good start to my portraits, and feel like I'll kind of be going back and forth between artistic and portrait photography from now on. =)

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Background Holders

Hi Everyone! =D So, lately I've been really considering focusing my towards one day making a career out of portrait photography. =) Now, I've done some portrait photography in the past, but I've never had my own studio. I was thinking ideally what I'd like to do one day would be to have a full professional shop in my home where I could hold full sessions with people, and then I could also do weddings outside of the home. =)

I'm still going to school, so I wouldn't be able to do this for a while yet (I'm half way to my degree. =P I might as well finish) but I'm still trying to plan and get a lot of the equipment I will need. =) So far I have some lights, and some umbrellas, camera, tripod, remote, things like that. =) But one thing that I really want, and found to be a challenge to find was a stand that would hold several backgrounds at a time so that I would have several backgrounds ready to go while I was doing a sitting. =)

Finally, I found what I was looking for. =D

This is a RollEasy Motorized Background Roller System. =) Basically this genius contraption will hold up to four rolled backgrounds and at the push of a button will roll and unroll them for you, keeping them at the ready for when you need them. ^-^ I pretty much fell in love when I found this. =) The only problem? It's a little expensive. =P Also, the only rolled backgrounds I've ever been able to find were paper, and I'm not really sure if I'd want to use paper backgrounds in a Photo Shoot. Either way? I think this thing is AMAZING and will very likely be picking one up before too long. =)

Then next thing I found I was probably just as excited about to be honest. ^-^

This photograph is off the website that I found it on, same as the one above. =) This is basically a long track with hooks and clips that will hold multiple muslin backgrounds on it. =P It's incredibly simple, but I really like it. ^-^ I think this would be really useful, and would be exactly what I need to keep my backgrounds accessible to me. =) This one is not that expensive, and is pretty much everything I was hoping for, so I'll likely get this sooner than later. =)

So yeah! This is what I've found for holding backgrounds so far. =) If someone else has something else that they use and really like? Let me know in the comments. ^-^ Anyway, I hope if any of you are like me, and are trying to find a way to hold up several backgrounds at a time, I hope this helped!

Have a Great Day!
Diana

Leia ...

11/365 Spilled Over

Hi Everyone! I hope everyone had a good weekend. =) Mine was pretty good. =) It was pretty relaxed, and I actually got to go to a baby shower today, which was really nice. =D Anyway, when I got home from the shower I realized I never actually put my make-up away. =P (I was in a hurry. ><) But I liked how it all looked piled up in front of my train case so I tweeked the composition a little bit, and voila! Here's our photo for today. =) I hope you like it! I though it'd look kinda cool if everything was out of focus accept for my pressed powder. =) Anyway, I hope you like it!

Leia ...

10/365 Lighting Effect

Today I was feeling pretty relaxed, and didn't feel like taking a very formal photo. I was setting up my lights to practice some Portrait shots and thought the lights looked interesting so I got a photo of it. =)

As of today I have been working on this photo challenge for ten days and it is actually more challenging than I first thought it would be to make time every day for photography. =) It is also getting challenging to find a different thing to photograph each and every day. =) Either way, I'm glad I started cause I know I'll be in a much better place a year from now. =)

Leia ...

9/365 Close Up Guitar.

Hi Everyone! So, this one is actually a day late. =P I ended up trying to get a good picture 'till pretty late last night, and by the time I was done, I was way to tired to edit and upload. =P I spent a long time yesterday just playing with lighting and seeing how it effected the photo of this black guitar on a black background. Anyway, this is the best one I took. =) I'm not in love with it, but it's the best photo I took yesterday, so I'm going to list it regardless. =) I hope you like it!

Leia ...

8/365 Vintage Ferry

Here's the photo of the day! This is another attempt at a Faux Tilt Shift effect. =) This one worked a little better 'cause I took it from much higher up, and I think it looks really cute with the little ferry at the dock. =) I also made it look vintage-y cause I liked how it looks. =) I've been having a lot of fun with making things look vintage lately. =) I took this photo today while I was at the market place in my area. =) It's a really cute little place to be with all kinds of stands both inside the main building and outside. =) It was a really nice outing for a nice sunny day. ^-^

Leia ...

7/365. Blueberry Muffin.

Hi Everyone! I'm so happy about today's 365 photo. =) Basically, I just got back from work, and really had no idea what to take a photo of. >< And then as I was walking through the kitchen I just had to laugh as I saw that, what had been a huge plate of muffins this morning, was reduced to one. =P Then I kinda thought that the powdered sugar and the natural lighting from the window looked really nice. =) So that's why it's the photo of the day! Also, VERY little editing on this one. =) Which I'm kinda happy about. =)

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