Mexico? I think not

Over spring break my dad and I went to Mexico for a nice vacation. I ended up getting pretty sick and not being able to go out and explore the area. I got a grand total of 3 pictures. They are quite fantastic, 2 being pictures of ice in a glass of iced tea and the other being a picture of me that I took to use for an art project. AWESOME!

Here are the sad 3 pictures from Mexico:

Nothing fancy, almost pathetic. I really wish I could have taken more pictures but since I was sick I didn’t really have to opportunity to except for the last day I was there but I wasn’t smart enough to even think about taking pictures until I was on the plane ride home.

So since I didn’t get pictures from Mexico, I’m going to add some studio portraits that I took with Bailey this past week. I wanted to do something kind of weird with the lighting, I didn’t really have anything mind when I was setting up the lights, I just set them up and messed with them till I like the result. I wanted something bold and bright, something…..OVER EXPOSED. Something similar to what Brittney Price did on Valentines Day.

I had a hotbox set up on the right side of Bailey, the stand was as low, or I guess as short, as it could go and then I angled the light itself up toward her face. Then on the left side I had a soft box set up so it was almost as high as the ceiling and then I angled it down toward the top of her head. Finally I used the ring light right in front of her face. Overall it made her face over exposed and left the background black. I like this look a lot because to me it puts the focus on her eyes and the dark background keeps my eye from wandering into the background.

Here are the pictures:

I must admit that this one is a little scary because you can only see a little bit of her mouth and nose and her eyes are so bright and bold in comparison to the rest of the face.

This is definitely my favorite of all these pictures. Just the expression on her face, its so natural, not forced at all. In the other pictures, she just made random faces and was being silly, which is cool and fun but its nice to get a natural Bailey face every once in a while. Usually the fact that I can see the inside of the ring light bothers me but I really like it with this picture, it provides a nice frame for her face.

I really liked these pictures I got and I think its not my typical pictures that I take, I like it.