M is for Modeling/Monster

I've created a monster. The other day I wanted to use my old camera, actually my moms old camera, a Canon AE-1. I've had it since I did photojournalism in high school. Might I add that I was one of the best sports photographers at Tomball High! Anyways, I haven't used it in forever and have essentially forgotten what a majority of the settings were, its not automatic so I couldn't just point and shoot but had to pick the f-stop and focus and everything. It was fun trying to figure it out again, but it has been half a decade and I think I've lost my touch. It was weird going to the store to drop off film, and having the suspense of not knowing AT ALL what the pictures I was going to pick up would look like. Aunt Cathy was baffled that people still even used film.

Back to the monster I created, I had to have something I wanted pictures of, I didn't want 24 images of landscape, so I told Alli that she was going to have a fashion show/modeling shoot. She pulled out her princess dresses, jewels and did her own hair and make-up and then we went to the back yard. I have never laughed so hard as I did when she started doing poses. I want everyone to know, I did not even once pose this child or tell her what to do. But I got everything from arms outstretched, to struts, to pouted lips, to smiling faces. It was way fun.

Here are some pics I took. The quality and sharpness isn't as good as the original because I scanned them in and the scanner wasn't workin too well and made the edges of some of the photos weird, so they are all cropped a lot. Feel free to come over and see the originals! Enjoy!

Below is Sampson T. Nuttall

Any ideas for the next shoot?

Love Lauren