Beautiful baby girl : Nampa Idaho newborn photographer

This little doll was so good. She just slept and slept and slept. We got lots of good ones. So, holy cow, get ready for picture overload. I had a hard time narrowing it down to just a few pictures to post. I love sleepy newborns!!!

The "K" family

What a nice family this is. They have two beautiful and very busy children. It wasn't easy to get these two little busy bodies to want to stay still for me. I'm just hoping mom will like a few of what I got.

The Johnson Family

This is my sister and her beautiful family. It wasn't easy trying to get two babies to look at you for longer then 2 seconds. I think we still got at least a few keepers though.
























I could post about 20 just of this little girl. She loves to have her picture taken

Pretty girls in pettis

I've been dying to take some pictures in my new pettis. My sister is town this week so I took advantage and borrowed her girls for a shoot.

My very 1st macro attempts

I couldn't choose between color & B&W so I decided, what the heck, I'll post them both.





Okay, so I know these are a pretty lame attempt at macro photography. I don't have a macro lens, so I just used one that's got a so-called macro setting. But I love macro photography and would so love to become good at it. So hopefully, the next time I post some macro pictures, there will be marked improvement. If any pros out there happen to see this post, advice would be fabulous!!!

Before & After

I've had some people ask me to give them some photoshop tips, which is so funny to me because I am so new to photography and photoshop. But anyways, I thought I'd post a sooc (straight out of camera) shot before and after I've edited. FYI, I'm no photoshop pro AT ALL! But, I have spent countless hours lately, playing around in photoshop to improve my pictures. This isn't the best picture in the world, but I love that I got a real smile outta that boy (and I haven't posted very many of Mase lately and feel kinda bad about that. He's tough one to photograph these days.

I use Photoshop elements 5.0 right now, however I think I may be upgrading soon. Yay! Okay, so if you've never used photoshop before, this will all probably sound like a foreign language to you, but here I go.......I 1st duplicated the layer and changed it to screen layer. I lowered the opacity to around 80%. I then flattened the layers and duplicated again. This time, I ran it as a hardlight layer at 20% and flattened again. After that, I bumped up the saturation 6%. I then sharpened just the eyes, and ran Ren's defog action at 75%. To top it off, I burned the edges to give it a more finished look. It's a lot of steps, I know. Editing takes a lot of time. And, every picture I edit needs a little something different. But, I believe that every picture can use some tweaking to look even better. I hope that helps anyone who was wondering what I do.

Just a few more

I'm a sucker for those blue eyes of Ty's




A sleeping baby gets me every time