Teaching Rachael about her camera

My friend Rachael (who knew my sister Joy very well when she served her LDS mission in Lansing, MI) and I spent a lot of time together during my spring break.  One of our activities was going out and teaching Racheal how to use the manual controls on her camera and in the process I got these shots.  She's such a beautiful, tall, and fun Mommy and Anna is so blessed to have such a cool Mom to raise her!

 

I think I like this picture in black and white more.

I think that I enjoy natural light photography the best.  After shooting in a studio setting I still want to play around with it and see if I can get better results, but in my opinion nothing beats an un-posed natural light photograph...as long as you have good light. :)

More adjustments in Lightroom

You can also locally adjust exposure with the adjustment brush in Lightroom.  Look at the difference on Shem's face from the picture on the top to the picture on the bottom.  His hat shaded most of his face while mine got a lot of sun.  I wanted to see the detail in his eyes so I used the brush to dodge in that shadded area.  So cool!  I also brightened his blue eyes a bit.