Piper Moore Photography: Reid Family Photos

Nicole is a friend and fellow photography lover. I follow her blogs and watch those sweet babies of hers growing up. Nicole experiences the curse of many photographers--lack of family pictures you are happy with. So, I wanted to get a few for her and her family and give her a chance to not be behind the camera. Well, I made some major photographer mistakes with this shoot! Oh man--I shot at noon on a sunny day. I knew it was supposed to be nice but it is December 4th in Seattle so I thought for sure it would be overcast. Wrong! It was beautiful, but hard for pictures. Then, I took a family with 2 small kids and a daddy with an injured back on about a mile long walk! Crazy? YES! Sorry guys!!! That sun just kept spoiling my ideas so I had to move on :(. But, they hung in there and I think we got some good ones. I have to be honest, I drove home feeling a bit defeated. The kids didn't fall for my tricks and the sun was against me. But, I was pleasantly surprised with some of these and with a little extra effort in lightroom I think I am going to bed significantly happier about the day's shooting adventures.

This is quite a bit more editing than I tend to do. I am not sure about it, but I wanted to put it up because I need to break out of my comfort zone with editing.