Family Fun-op...

Welcome again my friends! I know it has been awhile, but I am back to share with you all my triumphs and my struggles with this my new journey, photography.
So this past week, I am greeted with great news by my son, he proclaims to me that he is the "SUPERSTAR of the WEEK"!!! Which is a huge thing in his school, and even bigger in my house! WE JUMP FOR JOY, and make up songs about how my son is a "SUPERSTAR"!!!! After coming down from this gigantic high, he presents me with some added facts to his new his new found SUPER-STARDOM!! "Daddy you have to take a picture of me by myself, and I need a picture of you, me, and mommy together....oh and daddy i need it tomorrow". I was instantly reminded of the fact that we do not have recent pics of us all together, because I am always behind the lens! Not to mention this has to happen quick, I mean he is a SUPERSTAR now...so my brain gets to going(can we get a hand clap for that lol).
I inform the house that we are going to have to have a family shoot pronto! Wait a min here, I do not have a studio, or lights, or even a tripod!! What am I to do? So...my brain gets to moving again....(hand clap please lol) I am going to need my sb600 flash, uhm...my trusty 30mm sigma 1.4 lens, a stool, and a sheet (feel like Macgyver over here lol).
I cover up an little ottoman with a sheet, put it up against

my lightest wall and shoot my son first. The first 30 shots were not so hot, but as I adjusted the settings on my camera, things started to pick up, and boy did my son get silly, which made for great pics!!
It was working, my plan was working but I was still trying to figure out how I was going to get myself in the pic with everyone doing the process.

Next up, my son and mommy, again I got some great shots of the two of them, which seemed to make mommy emotional (Mommy's get like that when they take pics with their children, I guess Daddy's do to........crickets lol)


So moving along now....now is the challenge for me. I set up the timer on my camera, and add 3 shots per round, that way I can make sure I am not getting any closed eyes, being that I am not behind the camera. I focus everything while placing the camera on the stool, then run to make it in time. I did this time, after time, after time (talking about a workout!) till my son made it very clear that he was done the shoot. LOL who could blame him!

 At the end of it all I was happy at my first attempt of shooting on the fly without any studio aide. I was most happy with shooting my SUPERSTAR family, whom I have now introduced to you all.
I hope you all enjoyed this adventure.

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