Cynthia and the boys

If the word crazy was looked up in the dictionary, my cousin's Cynthia's face would be smack down beside it. Because that's who she is. Crazy. With a capital C in a hilarious I-can't-believe-she-did-that kind of way. A few weeks ago she asked if I could photograph her and her boys and of course I jumped to the opportunity to do so. In 104 weather, we cracked up, yelled at the kids and complained every second of the heat. We family. We cool. And I had a blast capturing some awesome memories. Big ups to Ally from glitz and glam for dolling up Cynthia and making her like a hot momma. Ally is also our cousin so basically we all use each other for our services. haha Love you two!

    The boys!

      Victor, you little heartbreaker you.

Hot momma!

Happy Tuesday! :)

Becky & Daniel: 1 year anniversary shoot

One year ago, an anticipated bride waited in her wedding dress to be walked to down to the isle to lock eyes with the man of her dreams. The man that for over a year she secretly had feelings for but never had the guts to express how she felt. Now, a year later, she steps out of the passenger seat of her car at Fairmount Park rockin' heels in her summer dress and holding hands with the same man that stole her heart. A  few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of photographing my good friends Becky and Daniel as they celebrated their one year anniversary. I don't normally shoot couples but when Becky asked if I could shoot a session of them I couldn't say no. I had the honor of singing at their wedding ceremony and I couldn't pass being part of another special time in their lives. Congrats again you two! Ya'll rocked the camera!!

Becky and Daniel decided to have their pictures taken at Fairmount Park, which was super neat because that's where Daniel asked Becky to be his wifey.

WORK-IT

And this right here? This bench is where Daniel popped the question. So cute!

Fierce!

Tip Tuesday: How to capture movement shots

It's time to get back to Tip Tuesday! Yayyyyy!!!! Today's tip is how to capture a movement shot. Believe me, there is a trick to it. In the picture below, I wanted to get a jumping shot of Alex, however, I was shooting at an ISO of 400 with an aperture of f/3.2. One thing to remember is that the lower your ISO is the slower your shutter speed is and the higher your aperture is the smaller your lens becomes which allows less light to come into your camera. If your shutter speed is slow you will get a very blurry and out of focus shot. The trick is to raise your ISO and lessen your aperture. That's exactly what I did in the image below, and doing so allowed me to get a clear and focused shot of Alex and it's one of my favorite shots of the day. Here, I bumped up my ISO to 1300 and lowered my aperture to f/2.5. Voila!!!

Happy Tuesday!

Audrey Hepburn inspired shoot

It's here! Finally! Can I get an Amen! I have been anxiously waiting to showcase this shoot but a few weeks ago my laptop had to go into surgery, but the Geek Squad geniuses managed to perform a  miracle and brought it back to life. Now, I can finally blog about all the fabulousness in this shoot. Ally from Glitz and Glam did an absolute flawless job once again with hair and makeup and we were spoiled enough to have our model Alex jump on board and be our mini Audrey Hepburn for the day. And the location? Sweet Lawwwd! I was obsessed with the architecture at UCR's Performing Arts Center. I could shoot there everyday. I also absolutely loved the outfits that were put together for this shoot. They truly depicted the style of Audrey Hepburn in a classy and fun way. A shot out to Alex's momma who helped put these outfits together. I may just have her be my personal stylist. :)

Thank you so so much to Ally and Alex for being so amazing. Really, my heart gets happy just thinking of our awesome teamwork. Saying I had fun would be short of how this shoot truly went. You guys rock!

And without further adieu, I introduce to you Alex, making Audrey Hepburn proud! :)

      Textured walls! Gahhhhh!

    Love!

      There's something about this picture I love.

   After a quick outfit change we headed back for some more pics!

      Fierce I say, fierce!!