KayleeAnnPhoto

I used the studio A LOT last year, and I didn’t really want to go in there a lot this year, but I just stinking love the ringlight. So I decided to go into the studio and take pictures with and of Jesi and Jessi. Here is what I have, and I like them! On all of these photos, I edited them in Camera Raw and then used PhotoShop. I’m not too fond of Lightroom, actually I’ve never used it. I tried once, and couldn’t figure it out. Yeah, I gave up on new software, ha. Anyways, I bumped up the clarity, black levels, contrast, and lowered the exposure. I cropped the first and last pictures just a tich and for my first studio portrait of this year, I did better with these photos than I thought I’d possibly do. I was just sick of the studio by Spring of last school year, but I couldn’t resist the ringlight. Plus, Jessi wanted to take pictures of me and Jesi also so I thought I’d help out my friend while doing my own project at the same time, I love how that works.

Inspiration: Devlin McCord  & More from Devlin he takes REALLY SWEET pictures, and he finds great colors to use and is great at editing. This is my cousin, he’s a flight medic in the U.S. ARMY, based at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas. He is one of the [few] main people who inspires me to keep going with my photography and try new styles of it, and to do something I love. He’s 28 now but he took photography classes when he was in high school, and he’s still going with it and loving it, around 12 years later, even with being busy with being an active duty soldier. He has gone on two tours; one to Iraq for a year, and one to Northern Afghanistan for a year. He says he might go back to Afghanistan in a few months, I hope he doesn’t have to. Not only does he inspire me in the world of photography, but for who he is and I’m proud to have a cousin helping our country, no matter the risk.

This frame was the ONLY prop we could find to use. Twitchell, we need props in the studio!!

I don’t know why but I tend to take candid shots when my friends are laughing and over half of the time, they turn out really cool looking! Like this one!

Jessi! she’s wearing a simple black shirt and a ponytail but her eyes contrast with those colors, and I like how the colors turned out.

We tried this picture about 7 times before Jesi could make a believable “scared” face. The first pictures she looked like she was totally faking it and that was not going to work for a good picture, Yes it’s posed, but it should be posed to have believable emotion in the picture :)

Typical smiley portrait, I like it.

Jesi and Jessi smiling it up for the camera, after trying to fix the settings and ISO between the ringlight and my camera, for about 10 minutes alone.