Last night we decided to go shoot at West Haven Green to catch the rest of the Christmas spirit, it was beautiful with all of the lights still up decorating the trees. Maggie just added to the beauty isn't she cute ;)
Today we were a bit pressed for locations due to the snow storm, so we just shot in her home which ended up working out pretty dope. The lighting from the front door window was an awesome accent as well as a prop.
People sometimes find me to be distracted, lying low in the background while I am supposed to be setting them up for a typical portrait. They may think I am not paying attention to them, but they are wrong. I am paying attention to everything. The environment is my canvas, I see the sun starting to come out from the clouds, and realize that soon there will be a pleasing but transient play of light and shadow; I see an object that is far in the distance but know it will become part of a beautiful composition. I see the bird as it flies overhead and know it will bring an exciting addition to the image; I see a person's face, and know the emotions that flicker by can be frozen in time... I am a firm believer in capturing a person’s true emotion it what makes an image hold value. Emotion is beauty in its purest form. Everything is a photograph—all I have to do is look. And I am always looking. As a photographer, I spend time in my heart, and I shoot from my heart.