Child: The Whites

The White’s are a family from my church, with two of the cutest kids I have ever seen. They are so cute I can’t even sit in their general vicinity in the chapel during sacrament meeting because I end up just watching them the entire time instead of listening to what is being said from the pulpit.

The baby shoot from yesterday was so composed, I worried that I wouldn’t be able to adjust quickly to different situations. Little Eli definitely had me running around like mad the entire time, flipping the settings as fast as I could. I burned some calories and got some good practice in.

These are all shot on manual, and only edited in Lightroom. If you aren’t using Lightroom…. what the heck is wrong with you?

May I present, Baby Audrie.

And Big Brother Eli.

We jumped from the dining room right to the bedroom. Eli was sweet enough to jump up and turn on the lights at one point, as I had been complaining about how dark it was. Of course, he still wouldn’t smile at the camera for me.

We decided to go to the park. We put on our shoes and socks and headed out into the very overcast day. I was happy not to have to deal with any harsh light or shadows!

Two hard things to take pictures of: Kids on swings, and kids on slides.

Why hello little darling!

I had to turn the camera on rapid-fire to get this shot. Not looking at the camera is Eli’s “thing”. My thing is clapping when I get really excited. Audrie’s thing is looking cute with her mouth hanging open all the time.

I love her little tights that look like they have shoes attached to the bottom.

Eli, please sit on this bench and take a nice smiling picture to send to Grandma. Please smile for us. Please?

What if we give you some fruit snacks?

Cheesy grin? Check. Not looking at the camera? Check. The best I can get? Check.

Yeah, let’s introduce the crying baby and the fruit snack hungry kiddo into the picture at the same time.

Let me show you how babies work.

They go from happy!

To bawling.

To happy again, almost as fast as I can take the picture. And I’m pretty darn fast.

Out of the 4 people present at the park, 2 were crying by this point (I won’t say who they were), so we decided to head home. As I was packing up my stuff we decided to put little Audrie on the chair in the living room to see if we could get one happy and sweet picture out of her. I think we were pretty successful.

That Shot AND SOOC shot are one and the same this session. Look at that sweet little tear. Sniff.

Here’s the before:

And the after:

I loved the way she propped her feet up in this shot. Do you think they sell those tights in my size?

We ended the day by trying to get a nice shot of mother and daughter together. I’m in love with (the mom) Abbie’s  hair color, and I hope they ask me to do family photos for them one day so I can get her in more pictures. Don’t you love the way it pops against that sweater?

Abbie, Eli, and Audrie, thanks for spending the afternoon with me. I’m glad we made it through snack time and a few bumped knees at the park, it was really great to get out of the house and come over and play with you.