Homegrown

Although I (Heather) am a transplant to Utah, my heart is still in Idaho. This is a shot Jason took out the back of our home. Yes, it is as beautiful as it looks! I was blessed to have grown up in a small town in the country. No matter where you end up, there is no place like home :)

Know your equipment

We have all done it- you know, see a cool picture, want to know how it is done, learn that the photographer used x equipment and 20 minutes later, it's on its way! :) lol! Ok, maybe you haven't done it, but you've thought about it, right? :) Well, I am guilty! I LOVE gadgets! One cardinal rule of photography is to know your equipment BEFORE you shoot! Practice with it! Learn it inside and out! Guaranteed if it can go wrong, IT WILL :) 

On this particular shoot, I had bought a piece of equipment and I thought it was a straight forward piece- well, it was straight forward plunging it in, but since I didn't practice before hand, I couldn't figure out how to control the power! Yikes! I had to move Jason about 30 feet away to get this shot! Yes it worked out, but having to use a megaphone :) to communicate with lighting probably didn't look the MOST professional :) Lesson learned!

Be prepared and you will be fine! And remember you can do a lot with a little! 

Finding the Light

As a photographer, you constantly hear about lighting! And there are an abundance of answers all over the internet on how to find it, what it means and so on. Maybe I'm just on the slow side but I still didn't quite get it! It seemed I would get a glimpse of "good light" and then 2 seconds later it was gone! GONE! Jason was driving yesterday and saw this beautiful image below but by the time he pulled the car over and got out his phone, the light had reduced by half!!! 

So, what is good light and where DO you find it? That is the challenge for the week- take a look around- I found that light is EVERYWHERE! Take an object and notice the light on it- where does it come from, is it warm light or cold, is it hard light (dramatically dark shadows) or is it soft (you can't tell where the light starts/stops), is it direct light or reflecting off of something or even diffused THRU something? If you get a chance, post your pics with the hashtag #Jandhphotolightchallenge