My New Year Blog Post....

I had major plans for things to come on this day, but I've done nothing to accomplish those plans.

Before I restructure the business side of my photography, I've decided to work on my exposure and composition side.
I'm going to do a lot of experimentation, going to get a lot of error, but with that error comes knowledge.  I've learned more about light in the past 8 months then I've probably learned about education or ultrasound over the past 11 years, believe that!

As I speak to other photographers, some who are very informative and love to teach (like myself) and then others that have more delicate ways of giving you advice (both of which I appreciate dearly) I realize I don't know anything.

I might get a few good/decent/ok images per session, but I have no idea why, all I know is I take a picture, look at some graph thingy, read it, and adjust my settings accordingly, but why?  I can not tell you, because it is just something I have learned over the past few months of teaching myself... ok the graph is way too far over that way, I need to open up/speed up/slow down/stop down, but actually taking a light reading and setting my camera BECAUSE the light is telling me to do so, I can't.

I don't want to have to keep telling my clients, hold on, or more importantly miss that shot of their toddler because my settings were off.  I want to nail that exposure and know why I did so.

I have a ton of photographers on my facebook page, there is a span from friggen awesome (I hate you/love you deal) to wow, there are no words.  I am sure I fit in both of those categories at times and I don't want to. 
I want to knock it out all the time.  I know that is a huge goal, heck even the amazing ones have their off days, which is fine, but I want to have my off days and know WHY they are off, not get home and look at a bunch of crap from my card and try to push it off as a good job.  Or vice versa, I don't want to get home and look at the pictures and think wow, these are pretty good and have no idea how I achieved that look.

I'm going to pay more attention to settings for this year.

I am so very thankful to everyone who has helped me get this far, the beautiful families, models, my own family, my cats.....

Get ready for growth from me.  I will need test subjects.  Stay tunned in 2011!