Photography is fun! {portraits, fashion, available light photography}

I have really wanted to try out a few locations I've driven by several times as I take the kids places. I've also been seeing really cool but edgy editing techniques that I want to try but never have the right image for. I also have wanted to try a few different poses that I can't really try out on a bride in a white dress! So I found a couple GORGEOUS girls to agree to let me have the lovely Kristy Harris do their make up and let me test out all this stuff on them! I really love the art of photography and just love to try things even if I fail just so I can learn how to improve. I always stay in the box (because everyone loves the box) but I also LOVE to step out and be creative. I think its the mix of the two that produces a collection of images that people really cherish. But it's the stepping out of the box part that can be frightening at times. When I am shooting a client I don't want to step too far off because they are expecting a certain result. So it's nice to be able to go off for a few hours and just shoot and try new ideas with out the pressure of that result. Then I learn what works and what doesn't and how I can improve upon what didn't work. Which will all help me in my adventures to come! Here are several of my favorites from my shoot with the beautiful Nicole and Brigitte. You will see a few that are the same but with different editing techniques or even the same pose just composed differently and that was mainly what I was working on in addition to trying out these new locations. Enjoy!