For the past 2 years my lovely friend Rychelle has taken our family Christmas Card photo.
Here's a reminder for you.
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This year I ventured out to take the pictures myself. Afterall, I'm an active pinner on pinterest and I've read several tutorials on how to take amazing family pictures, it's easy right?
So, armed with my tripod and my new lense and a vision of an awesome family picture with the mountains in the background and my family next to a lone Christmas tree, we set out to accomplish the best family picture ever.
Here are some of my favorites.
If you look closely, we're a little fuzzy and the tree is the focal point... oops. I'm blaming the random guy riding his bike past us and staring like he's never seen such beautiful people. I think he messed with my tripod.
How come pinterest didn't teach me how to get rid of shadows.... or not to take pictures with the sun to the side?)
We're not all in focus on this one. I should've closed the aperture a little more. (See how I use big words like aperture now that I'm pinterest educated?)
This one may actually be my favorite of all of them... who needs my honey in the shot anyway?
Once again, the tree obviously is the focal point. Totally the look AJ was going for.
Just a sampling. I actually didn't choose any of these for my Christmas card, so you can be suprised. (Assuming you're on my mailing list that is. If you're not on my mailing list, so sorry. Feel free to print of any of the above pictures and mail it to yourself! )
