Sunset Photo Shoot

We did a photo shoot with Lukey and Kenzie at sunset last night. At around 6:30 yesterday evening, we headed out for a nearby grassy field where I could put the setting sun behind them. It worked out fairly well and the kids learned a little bit about the real difficulties of modeling. The kids learned that good modeling is about knowing which angles and poses work well for you... about knowing how to express a natural smile and not a forced plastic goofy smile... about knowing which clothes make you look good... it is about knowing what to do with your eyes, your hands, your feet, your chin, every part of your body. What they learned is that modeling is not about simply being a beautiful, attractive person and just standing there but that modeling is actually a verb that requires a lot of knowledge, skills and abilities.

This was good practice for me too. I haven't done any sort of photo shoot in about two years or more. Shooting portraits with the sun behind your models can be tricky and difficult. Some lenses work well for this, others not so much, so I ended up narrowing down the lenses to use right at the beginning of the shoot. In addition to the advantages of doing a photo shoot again to practice and refresh my memory, we certainly needed some new photos of Lukey and Kenzie too so that, alone, was a good reason for planning this little outing.

We ended up with a few dozen good photos and here are a few quick edits of a few of them...