048 - baby parody

Sometimes you just can't take things too seriously.

I had an assignment once where we were given a handful of words and needed to photograph something that could be described by that word. One of my words was "parody". Almost immediately I knew what I wanted to do. Off to Walmart in the wee hours of the night searching for a "baby" double and some silk flowers. The end result was my Anne Geddes parody.

This photo amuses me quite a bit. Elliott on the other hand, is completely creeped out by it. I guess it falls into whatever valley he spoke about once. I have wanted to do a series of baby double poses and hang them around the house for laughs. Gallery style! Probably not such a nice thing to do to the man I love but I would get quite a chuckle out of it!

037 - Stencil backlit

Back to basics...this is a straight shot right out of the camera, no tweaking in Photoshop other than to convert it to black and white. I took a brass stencil from my card making days, put a light source behind it and here you go!

025 - Doll w/ Hat

I have been toying with the idea lately about doing portrait photography. I had always thought that good portraits had to be done in a studio with strobe lighting, so since I don't have a studio, I never really considered it. This changed about a week ago. I came across a web site of a photographer that does all her portraits with natural light...and they're beautiful! I wanted to try this out myself so I got out my baby double. This was shot with just window light...not too shabby!