Big changes are coming to the Barefoot Memories blog.

I'm hoping to show you soon, and it's gonna be really cool!

As I get that blog stuff ready to show you, I have other exciting stuff to tell you!

Mpix has agreed to sponsor the New York City myFUNcamera workshop on October 23rd!

Every attendee will get a free expo pass to the AMAZING PhotoPLUS Expo
AND a $25 Mpix gift certificate!

Check out the myFUNcamera site for more info & signups!

There are a few spots at the sale price of $200 if you hurry!
After the $200 spots are taken, the rest are $250.

Portrait sessions for NYC have sold out, but a few of those workshop spots are still there for you!

Have a great afternoon!

~Carey

Avast me hearties!!
What's your pirate name?

September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

My pirate name is:

Dread Pirate Rackham

Like the famous Dread Pirate Roberts, you have a keen head for how to make a profit. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.

You've got til tomorrow to get your Pirate Lingo down!

ARG!

Every weekend included a game or a tournament.

The challenge I gave myself for their last tournament
was finding some way to really show the boys in a creative way.
After taking hundreds of pictures over the summer, I needed to do something different!

A great action shot or a good picture of the team
would just blur into the massive number of pictures I'd already taken,
even if it was a fabulous capture with perfect timing & focus.

So there they were, waiting to get their trophy for making it
all the way to the CHAMPIONSHIP GAME of their last summer tournament.
I took that (blah) picture of the entire team you see up there,
but I felt the need to tell their story a bit more.

I noticed that they were sitting on a bench together,
but since they're still young boys,
their 10-yr-old legs wouldn't let their feet touch the dirt below.

Ten-year-olds are full of dreams, excitement, and potential.
How appropriate that their feet were hovering above the Earth.
They've got their adults lives to be grounded!

For that image, I squatted down very low and used my 24-70 lens in Av mode at f/2.8
(ISO 200, and the camera chose a shutter speed of 1/200sec).
There were lots of parents standing around taking pictures at the same time
making the space very crowded,
so having that lens instead of my 70-200 lens allowed me
get that team image & their hovering feet without backing up a lot.

Here's one last shot I captured from the post-tournament party at Islands.
The boys were enjoying some desserts,
so I held that 24-70 lens up above them at the table
at the widest possible zoom and told the boys to look up into the camera.

For that image I increased the ISO to 3200 because the restaurant was very dark.

They barely agreed to stop grazing on the ice cream & chocolate
to look at the camera for a half a second
(some, including my son, didn't stop at all!)

Enjoy!

~Carey

Blue is my favorite color. (no big surprise there, duh!)

These are some pics from pics from a recent session on Coronado,

when the sky was a crazy beautiful clear sparkly blue.

Dad is off being Superman (Navy Seal... OK, that's cooler than Superman!),

so we created some great images for dad while he's away from home.

I love these closeups of big sister & little bro enjoying some cuddle time, and I think dad will, too:

Have a great day!

~Carey

Lights
Fill flash
Reflectors
Scrims
Power Packs
Assistants

I don't bring ANY of that stuff to my photo sessions,
and I don't have to when I have awesome clients like that dude up there!

Lugging all of that equipment around would be a pain,
and a lot of "schtuff" makes it harder for a family to casually enjoy their time together.

But sometimes I need some help to make families look even better.

Check out these ladies, for example:

Jennifer there on the right has a big splotch of direct sun on her face.
She's shading her mom, and her mom is shading her sister,
but poor Jennifer had nobody to shade her!

Enter our knight in shining armor, HUBBY!

I didn't need a LOT of shade, I just needed to block that one spot on Jennifer's face.
Her husband stood off to the side, raised his arms in the air just right, and VOILA!

I had him bring back his roll as ShadeMakerSupreme for another shot of some beautiful ladies together:

Here's another fun shot from the end of the session when the family patriarch put on his cool shades:

And some closeups of the beautiful granddaughters

This next one was the final shot of the day, when this little gymnast was itching to show off her skilz

Enjoy!

~Carey