A New Blog!!

Hello! My long awaited blog is finally up and ready to face the world!

Check it out!

paigesmithblog.com

Enjoy!

I'm baaaaaaack!

Phew! That was a long vaca! Sometimes you feel like you need a vacation from vacation! :)

But I'm back and I'm ready to roll. I still have family in town for the next few days, but after that I will be editing and posting like nobody's business. Oooh, and my new blog is right around the corner! I can't wait.

Here's one of my favorites from this summer:

Tchao amigos! Ate logo!

R&R

My husband's not the only one who deserves a little R&R!!

Right now, although MIA and faaaaaaar away from my lovely home computer, I am still busy busy busy making photographic plans for my future. My sweet little usual subjects are feeling the biggest burden of camera-in-face syndrome, but they'll get over it. And love me for it when they're older. :) I'm also fitting some fun family photo shoots into my vacation time. Let's just say shooting a family with four kids ages 5 and under is rough. Especially when it's 85 degrees outside with 90 percent humidity. Does any one know of a de-sweat Photoshop action? I've got some cute, sweaty babies comin' your way!

And last but not least....my blog is in the process of a HUGE makeover. And by huge, I mean huge. The grand reveal will hopefully happen sometime in August. I don't know exactly when because I'm not the only one involved in this thing. But it'll be sweet. So get excited. :)

Until then, stay happy.

Paige

Welcome back, sun. We missed you.

I just got back from an awesome, sunny shoot with an even awesomer girl.

Check out some of my faves:

New Tricks

I like this photo cause my baby girl loves making the under water sound with her lips. This is her exact face every time it happens. Delicious. I love this kid. And I love that man. I'd say he was delicious too, but I'm pretty sure this blog is G-rated.

I learned a few new tricks in Photoshop today that makes my images look SO much cleaner. I LOVE it. Thank you Becky Earl Photograhy! You're really cool. :)

The Men in my Life

These are the men in my life.

This one just had a birthday!!

and is totally crazy.

I wanted a "serious" pose so I told him to stop smiling. Less than a second later my model gave me this pose. Oh man, work that camera, boy!!

And this guy's alright, too. Ok, more than alright. He's stinkin' hot, that's what he is.

I just love 'em.

Baby Girl

With all the photoshoots I was doing/editing for friends and family over the past few weeks, I hadn't taken as many pictures of my own kiddos. Poor babies. I'm sure they missed it terribly. Ha. So yesterday I took my baby girl out for her own mini photoshoot. Now, kids can be difficult subjects because they are so active and have attention spans lasting approximately five seconds. My kids have attention spans upwards of three seconds. This little girl of mine, as cute and calm as she may appear, is a little firecracker. She's got so much energy that sometimes I think she's just going to burst! Ok, maybe not quite that much. But close. So this photoshoot, with just me and her, was really funny as I chased her down and tried to get her to remain in one good lighting area. I should post some of my outtakes. Hmmm...maybe another day. But here are my faves from our 10 minutes of photo time. :)

This first one I edited a million ways and posted them all to see which one I like the best. I have yet to cast my vote. Which is your favorite?

Loves her mama!

I'm wondering if I should be putting my logo on all my blog pictures...Hmmm... Anyone know how to create your own action in Photoshop?

Sisterly Love: Part II

More. Cause aunts are awesome. As opposed to ants. Like the ones in my kitchen. Those are not awesome.

But aunts are.

I like this crazy arm, slanty one. My baby girl's got spunk.

And one more of these guys, just for good luck.

Beautiful People.

You've probably already noticed this. Over and over again, in fact. But because I like beating dead horses, (Ok, no. I don't. Who made up that expression anyway??) I'm just going to say it.

I keep some beautiful company.

I'm pretty sure it's because beauty attracts beauty. (HA! Have you noticed I haven't posted any photos of MYSELF in about one year? Yeah, there's a conscious reason for that.)

But seriously now, I took some family photos for beautiful friends a couple weeks ago. It's so easy to take pictures of beautiful people. It's kind of unfair. I sort of feel like I'm cheating this whole photography thing. Like it has nothing to do with ME and everything to do with the models on the other side of the camera. But whatever. I'll pretend it's really me. :)

So here you go. Eye candy.

I'll end with this picture that I love because it tells such a funny story. Mom and Dad wanted a photo of the two kids holding hands. Unfortunately, it was really breezy and the kids were super cold and sad. Neither of them wanted any photos, much less one of just the two of them holding hands. So here we have Big Obliging Sis and Lil' Bro Grumps with Mom and Dad encouraging them along.

Ha. I Love it.

Senior shoot!

I'm still not sure how this all happened. But it seems like every week I'm doing a type of shoot I've never done before (which isn't hard, given my young photography life). But really. Who do my friends think they are trusting a novice like myself? Seriously, now. But I'm VERY grateful for the experience and the fun. Honestly, I am having sooooo much fun with this. Like, it pretty much consumes my empty thought box. No more mindless daydreaming about how those two people made that kid, or how much do you think it would cost me to rent a hot air balloon for a day. Well, fine. Maybe there is still some of that mindless daydreaming going on. But less. Definitely less. Now I'm just imagining myself as a billionaire owning the photography world. :) Hehe... or something like that.

So back to business. Seniors. This was my first senior shoot with an awesome kid. Not only was he totally talented and interesting, but he did anything I asked him to. I'll be honest. I was nervous going into this shoot never having been a senior boy myself and not sure how he would act around the camera, but I was really happy how everything turned out. But, I'll let you be the judge today.

Enjoy!

Sisterly love: Part I

My sister and her hubbs came for a visit last weekend, so of course we had to do a quick photo shoot. I got a couple cute shots that I'm excited about for them. Here are my favorite:

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

Amen.

This week's photo challenge over at I heart faces?

Play.

This senior was totally playing.