{"id":1136,"date":"2012-02-11T12:15:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T17:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2012-02-11T12:15:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T17:15:59","slug":"a-new-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2012\/02\/11\/a-new-subject\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looking through my photostream several times, I finally realized what was missing: me!<\/p>\n

Being the designated photographer puts me behind the camera a whole lot more than in front of it. So I decided, for Kat’s next lesson<\/a>, to turn the camera around. I also needed to update my social media pictures and I had been dying to try out tethered shooting now that I’ve finally upgraded to Lightroom 3 (just in time for LR4).<\/p>\n

There were several technical difficulities I had to figure out (like Lightroom not shooting “live”) but in the end I managed to get some semblance of a studio going and managed to get a few decent headshots. Boring, but decent. Then my preschooler came home, saw the setup, and immediately wanted to take pictures. So I let him. He directed me and I let him snap away with the wireless remote.<\/p>\n

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The results? A lot more fun. Less worry about the right angle of the head, the right angle of the flash, the stupid background, the shadows, am I even in focus (my eyes are so screwy these days I can’t tell??!!). <\/p>\n

In the pre-Tommy setup, I was being careful and studious. And then, when Tommy took over the directing, it was fun. More play — less work. And the pictures were better too. Not necessarily appropriate for what I needed, but more lively. More real. The trick would be to translate that sense of fun into the more serious and routine shots.<\/p>\n

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And in the end, I got the best picture of all — one that truly captures an emotion. I’m smiling from ear to ear over that shot. And that’s what it’s all about, right?<\/p>\n

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