A Little Sneak Peak

Big Cottonwood Canyon Shoot

This was my first photography session I've had since last fall and I'll be honest...I am a little rust. I had a lot of fun learning and working on my photography last summer, but since then I decided that I'll leave it up to the professionals until I can invest some money in better equipment and learn more about photography. However, my brother and his family still seem to have enough faith in me to keep asking me to do their family pictures even after many failed sessions in the past. 

I wanted to do their family pictures with a little more wooded background and there is nothing like that out where I live so we headed to Cottonwood canyon. The weather was perfect right before the shoot and then shortly after starting it started to down poor. These guys were troopers and we had enough time to get a couple shots. Let me just say that I'm going to miss this cute family when they move away to California next month!

McKenzie Dean // Portraits

This was my first shoot since the fall and to be honest I felt a little rusty behind the camera. By the fall of last year it seemed like I had things a little more down to a science not to mention my wonderful assistant/sister who would join me on shoots before she moved away. It definitely helped to have a gorgeous girl in front of the camera that can't make a picture look back if she tried. Kenzie is graduating from the University of Utah in a few weeks and wanted to get some graduation shoots and some professional head shots. It was fun getting back into taking some pics and catching up with McKenzie! Congrats to all those graduates of 2013!

The Smith's Family Portraits

I really enjoyed meeting the Smith family and taking their family portraits! Thanks for a great shoot!

Engagements: Rachel and Matthew

Robertson Family Lifestyle Session

One thing I love about family (or at least mine) is that they let me experiment when photographing them! I've been wanting to try a "lifestyle" shoot indoors with very neutral colors since I've started seeing them pop up with newborns online. With my very limited equipment for doing indoor shoots and living in a basement apartment to boot I wasn't sure how these would go. Although the quality of the pictures aren't up to par with how I would want them (I'm a crisp and sharpness freak as are most photographers) add in this cute family and my new adorable, little nephew and I like how the pictures turned out. Plus it was fun to have them come for a visit besides!

I'm normally love the color too much in pictures to turn them black and white but for most of these pictures I did both color and black and white and ended up liking both so I've just put a few of each up.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! :)

Fall Family Pictures

We were down in Provo this last weekend visiting my siblings and their families and decided to take some family pictures to have for the holidays. This may be a little bias but I think our families have been blessed with some pretty cute little girls and Addi fits right in! I just love all her different facial expressions! Basically I just love taking pictures of this awesome family if you haven't noticed by now :)