Hey ya'll,
Its been a while, thought I'd check in on ya'll and also share what I've been up to the past few months. I had my first two studio customers who were willing to let me practice, I had set it up that I did it free in exchange for experience and to see what worked and what didn't. One of them were so pleased that he actually paid me for the pictures. Gave me a little boost of course. ;o)
Anyways the first session (which I'm gonna have to go dig up, its already on CD filed away) was Christmas photos only and boy we had a time, this little girl did NOT want to cooperate at all, no looking at the camera etc, we finally bribed her with a candy cane (appropriate since its Xmas photos) and got a few smiles, I'm gonna have to find those for ya.
Then the second session which I'm gonna show ya is of both regular portraits for a 1 year old and a 5 year old, as well as Christmas photos of all the kids (3 of them, ages 1, 3 and 5). I'm pretty pleased with them overall...lighting is an issue as always but I'm working on that (buying studio lights in the next month - need to decide on which ones first and hubby is building me a softbox per instructions from a post on this forum).
I'll share the portraits in this post, in the #2 post you'll see the Portraits and Christmas and there will be another picture in post #3. I'm like I said pretty please with them and the parents were thrilled.
ETA: I edited my pictures, they were still a bit on the large side, I hope these sizes still show off the cute pics but not take over the screen.
Pictures removed: If you wish to see them, please PM me for a link.

