I was exited the be able to do the Frerichs' pictures again after having done them some time last year. After looking back at the pictures I had taken then, I was confident that I could make them much better this year. I have had much more experience and have improved much since then.
It is fun being able to take pictures of friends as it is much more fun, for them and me. They were very easy to work with and helped a lot with figuring out how to pose themselves, as that is one thing that I'm not very good at.
They seemed to prefer taking pictures in the shade and made fast enemies of my reflector when I pulled it out to add a little light. The reflector, which I just recently bought, is a very handy tool to add light where needed. I think I used it twice on this shoot, once when it was too dark in the shade where they were, and again when I had them sit in the sun at almost a ninety degree angle. In the later case, I had taken a few pictures then looked at the back of my camera to check my exposure. I noticed that because of where Jessica and Jordan were sitting, that the sun didn't hit their faces the same way it did the others. So I pulled out the reflector and added a bit of light to them
In post processing, I came to love Photoshop Element's clone stamp and heal tools so much more! Because Lima is a desert, getting pictures with a lot of green requires finding a park to shoot at. This last time, the park wasn't too busy, but there were still some people in the background of some pictures, as well as cars parked along side of the park. These tools made it very easy to remove these objects from the background.
