Week 6 is CLOUDS! My goal for this shoot was to create beautiful ethereal looking clouds in the studio, using Christmas lights, pillow stuffing.

While I fully intended to bring in THREE ferns (which normally hang on my front porch, one of the ferns was home to a nest of baby sparrows – so we had to settle for just two! This shoot was all-natural light – no fancy hair, makeup or styling. Just beautiful window light, a beautiful girl, and some lovely nature.

Week 4 concept is MIRROR. Caitlin was such my senior team member, and she right away saw the vision and helped create some amazing photos. We went to 2 locations – both a brick alley in Parsons, and a beautiful meadow outside of town – and I LOVE what we created together! 

The last photo is definitely my favorite from this set, and it includes 6 different photos of her for the final edited image!

On week 3, my goal was to experiment with light painting, a technique I had never tried. It involves shooting in complete darkness, and using long exposure, and a flashlight to physically ‘PAINT’ light onto a SUPER still and patient subject.

I started with some soft and pretty images of Isabelle with the white daisies, and then we took things up a notch with bright yellow daisies, and despite our time restraints – I think we both NAILED gorgeous images!!! Which is your favorite? The white or yellow daisy photos?

Welcome to my Six Weeks of Summer Creative Challenge! In the summer of 2021,I challenged myself to six weeks of taking ONE concept, one senior, and 30minutes to create images that are above and beyond the normal ‘portraitsession’. Every week I collaborated with one of my six Senior Team members, tocreate something amazing. I promised […]