In a moment of bravery, I signed up for a monthly challenge group with Clickin Moms. The talent, skill, and creativity of the CM photographers inspires, but also intimidates me. I am stepping waaaaaay outside my comfort zone to participate in this- but that’s how we grow, right?
We have been divided into blog circles of 15 that will be linked up each month for 2013, so if you click on the link in each photographer’s post, you should eventually end up back here!
The theme for this month is close-up portraiture, which I really enjoy- especially with babies. I was so tempted to post macro shots of Henry when he was a baby, but, since my daughter took most of them (using my camera)- I think that might be cheating! 🙂
So, I called on my friend Barbara’s daughter, the beautiful Victoria! I took photos of her a couple weeks ago and posted some of them here. Today’s photos are from the same shoot. I took these photos with my 50mm 1.4 at f/4.5 and f/5 and used bounced flash (speedlight, TTL) to enhance the ambient light. Both are edited in Lightroom 4 only.
After you look at my photos, head on over to Misty Colvard’s site to see what Misty has done with this month’s challenge!
She is so darn pretty!
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Melinda these are beautiful!
Beautiful girl and beautiful images 🙂
Beautiful photos!
Stunning!
Gorgeous images!!! I love that piercing, I’ve never seen one there before. (Does that make me sound old?)
Beautiful subject and beautiful images. I love the composition and perspective of the second image, looking down at her eyelashes like that is just perfect.
She is beautiful! As ate these portraits.
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Beautiful! Thank you so much !
She is a beautiful girl, and these are beautiful portraits!
Beautiful images!!!
Yaaaaaaaah, she is stunnnning! Wow. Great job.
Wowza – she’s a beauty and you’ve done an amazing job with these images! Well done!
Gorgeous, gorgeous! The first one is so striking and the second soft and lovely. Beautiful girl and photos!
very gorgeous!! inspiring!