This afternoon I captured this moment in the doorway of Rachel’s home of her trying “The Hat” on Noah, her date for the Mistletoe Dance. I liked the light in the doorway and the car waiting in the background and the moment where they were messing around with the hat. I wish I had turned off the tungsten light overhead as it caused problems with getting a good color balance as it caused a bit more of a yellow cast than I would have preferred. I took care of most of it in post processing by using saturation and color adjustments. Always pay attention to different types of lighting when shooting your pictures, or you’ll have to spend a little more time in post processing.

January 5, 2013

Today Rachel and friends were heading out to go shopping and I thought it was a perfect opportunity for a picture involving “The Hat.” The fine folks at a local our local “Classy Closet” on North Seminary Street I was able to capture the three of them in front of a mirror, which always provides for fun of girls of all ages. Later today I’ll be shooting the Day 5 photo which involves her and a friend getting ready to head off to a dance.

January 4, 2012

It’s been a couple days since I’ve posted so here’s the latest pictures of Rachel and The Hat I’ve been shooting as part of my year long photography challenge series this year. She’s been a joy to work with and I look forward to the rest of the month to see what we can capture.

January 3, 2013

January 2, 2013

Well, I’ve decided to participate in another year-long photography challenge. I actually signed up for two, but our local photography club has decided to do one again this year and as the club’s president I have decided to participate in it alone.

I always like doing year-long challenges as it helps keep the creative juices flowing and makes me get outside my box when it comes to my photography. Working for a newspaper kinda keeps me in a different type of photography mode with more documentary and photojournalism type of images. While doing these challenges I can use the same kind of style of photography, but I can also be a little more creative and liberal when it comes to the type of photograph I produce vs something for the newspaper.

The Challenge will be broken down into 12 monthly challenges with a different theme for each month. The first month’s theme is “The Hat.” The object is to photograph the same hat everyday for the month of January. Rachel, the daughter of a friend from work, Tonya Rickard is graciously allowing me to photograph her each day of the month wearing the hat you see here. I’m excited to see where we go and what portraits or pictures we can capture as the month goes on.

Rachel and “The Hat”  – Photography by Jim Pearson