Jer & Min Photography

This is a staged photo, he isn’t an angry boy.  Last Halloween Toby dressed as Batman.  He figured Batman needed to look very angry at every door so he pulled his Batman face whenever someone answered.  It was actually very cute and we have him do it often because it is so against his character.

Not intending to sound like a downer (yesterday’s entry wasn’t particularly upbeat) but today was spent debugging code we hoped to release today.  We found a very interesting problem that has us stumped.  This is as much joy as we could find.

Thanks to Mike for modeling.

I feel my son’s eyes are very expressive.  His mom was getting ready to head off to drop off our daughter at a friends house and he wasn’t too pleased about her leaving.  He, like I, loves her incredibly.  I may have had the same look on my face, I’m not sure.

I really struggled with this photo.  It isn’t what I wanted to capture, I was just unable to get what I wanted.  I suppose that happens in the course of 365 days.

My son Toby is rather difficult to photograph, he doesn’t like to model or to pose nicely.  He does however, love to pull faces and to goof around in front of the camera.  Every time I need a photo of him, I have to do it on the sly which makes for some challenging shots, but shots that truly show him and his character.

This first shot is an exception as he was actually posing for the camera.

We sure love you Toby!

On Thanksgiving Day last week, my family and I were in Bern, Idaho to celebrate with my Father’s family.  We had a tremendous turn out and every ate until we could eat no more.  After the lunch, my sister Chandra and her husband Chris asked if I would take a few portraits of them together.  I agreed acknowledging that there wasn’t very many “interesting” backdrops at the location we were at and due to family obligations we couldn’t exactly go hunting for better locations.  Knowing this, we shot the majority of their shots from an angle slightly above them to use the grass as the background.  It was a fun experience and they got some pictures they were quite pleased with.

Here are my favorite three photographs.

Last night my son Gage was crying and my wife was trying to comfort him.  I was in the process of getting a couple of photos of my other son Toby when I turned around and saw my wife.  It amazes me just how much love someone can express with their body language.  As I saw my wife holding Gage and soothing him I snapped the shutter.

Last night we carved pumpkins.  It is so fun to watch my children explore new things and to see the excitment on their faces.  Last night was especially rewarding.

I shot these photos with my Nifty Fifty (50mm f/1.8) in rather low light.  The lens did amazingly well.  I then processed the photos in Lightroom 2 using some presets I found on http://x-equals.com/blog/.  They have some great presets over there, I recommend checking them out.  That being said, the last two photos I wish I would have reviewed a bit more as the preset I used on them added some odd artifacting that I’m not too fond of and should have addressed.

More photos from this and our Halloween adventures may be found on our Halloween 2008 set.

My sister Emily doesn’t particularly like to get her photo taken.  I took it anyway.  Here is a picture of my beautiful sister converted to black and white.