iheartfaces entry

Found this great website on Facebook and decided to participate in the weekly contest. This weeks theme is "The Beach". Now for me, this was incredibly difficult since we go to the beach A LOT and I have tons of photos! But I decided to enter this one of Christina and Nicholas, taken earlier in July.

If you want to see more entry in this weeks contest and maybe enter a photo yourself, you should definitely check out the iheartfaces website. And don't forget to leave me some comments about this photo...

Overpowering Daylight

A few weeks ago, I went to a workshop on Flash Photography from Jen OSullivan. One of the techniques she showed us was to overpower daylight. What this does is render the sky a very dark blue without underexposing your subject. So last Thursday, when I went to the beach with my kids, I experimented. Here are a few shots that turned out OK. The composition isn't that great, and my models were kind of tired after spending the whole day at the beach! But I was able to get a dark blue sky even though these shots were taken at 6:30 pm.

I wanted to stay until sunset and experiment some more but my subjects were really tired and not very cooperative! So we decided to call it a day...