A Day on the Beach ...

Agnieszka · April 20, 2009

I had *so* many shootings the last couple of days it's crazy. And I have no idea on which ones I should work first. :rofl :dunno

These were done last Friday. I had a family session on the beach. Very casual. They are actually my neighbors, and I just ADORE their little girl (aka firecracker) :lust

She's the cutest little thing! I know, the post processing is a bit "special" ... on the red & yellow side, but I just wanted to try something new again, they will receive the "normal versions" as well

Hope I captured their fun, loving side! This family is SO much fun (mom used to be a model - of course!)

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2: Turns out giving lollipops to little kiddos on the beach is NOT a good idea :rofl (yup, the whites are a bit blown here ...)

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7: (my personal favorite)

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11: And just a few of mommy & daddy:

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That's just a small selection of the huge set. I'll need work on some other photos first, but thought I would share

C&C welcome as always.

DeuceFour · April 20, 2009

I love them all!!! I am a big big fan of lifestyle photography, and you did a great job on these. Very candid, great emotion and feeling! Good Job!!

jeffreaux2 · April 20, 2009

5,6,9, and 12......AWESOME!!!!

pwp · April 20, 2009

I love them all! And this is certainly one instance where I don't mind the whites being blown out. Very photogenic family, with a great 'tog to work with!

mpaulie · April 20, 2009

pwp wrote:

I love them all! And this is certainly one instance where I don't mind the whites being blown out. Very photogenic family, with a great 'tog to work with!

They're all beautiful!

Agnieszka · April 20, 2009

Thanks everybody for the nice comments!

I wish I could do more shoots like this, most of my photos are usually very posy. Love this family, it was SO easy to take photos of them.

Thanks again!

Agnieszka · April 20, 2009

Got one more:

"And now everybody look at the photographeeeer"!

Cuties02q · April 20, 2009

I LOVE all them!! #4, #5 & #7 are my favs but they are all wonderful

Agnieszka · April 20, 2009

Thanks Cuties

Qarik · April 20, 2009

awesome. hey can explain how you take photos like 8 and 9? shutter, aperture..fill flash? I love those kinds of "flare" shots but don't really know how to take them

Agnieszka · April 20, 2009

Thanks Quarik. Honestly there is no big magic to them. I shot pretty much all shots with 2.8 / ISO 200-400 and did the rest in photoshop. She was running around the whole time, and I would have not been fast enough to change my settings much, so I just took them as they happened and did the rest in post production. The lens flare in #8 was added later on, thought it would kind of fit with the style

Thanks for commenting!