Unit 6!!!!!!!!

I have been working on a photography course for the last 3 YEARS, and I am finally done! I am so excited to have my efforts rewarded by getting my diploma and starting my business. I have had one more baby since I started this course. I thought that it would be almost impossible to finish with three kids in tow, but I had a goal, I kept at it, and now Iam done! And I couldn't be more happy :) Here are some of the photos that I have submitted :) I hope you enjoy. I would love to hear what you think :)
















These are the photographs that I submitted for framing your subject.

This photo is using leading lines to give attention to my subject.

This is using Depth of Field to draw attention to my subject















Using slow shutter speed to get the right exposure for a moving object.





This is my first official rule of thirds picture. My subject is in the first third of the picture.












These are just a few of the pictures that I submitted for my course. Maybe I will post some more later :)

Thanks for stopping by.

Kallie

oh my!!

Here are a few of my favorite shots from the last few photoshoots. :)



The Gruner family have been wonderful to photograph! I did their little family photos after they had their baby boy. This Christmas I got the opportunity to photograph the extended family as well. There were alot of laughs and it was so fun.

Thank you for letting me into your lives, to create memories with my camera.

This is my baby girl, Linnea. It was her 7 month birthday so I decided to do a little BW photoshoot with her.

This is my favorite shot from that session.

This is my little sister, Kloe and her new baby Rosie. We were all together one sunday, and since I never go anywhere without my camera, I was taking a bunch of pics.

This was my favorite of that day.

I have been procrastinating my blog lately. I have had a few photography jobs this winter and I still don't have them on the blog yet. I am on my last unit of my photography course and so close to being done. I can't wait!!!! I have until May to get it done, so I really have to move it along.

I have been backing up my old photos that are on my computer onto CDs and I have been reminiscing the old days when my kids were smaller, and when we were in our old house. I LOVE looking at old pictures and seeing how much we have all changed, or not changed (hopefully).

Grandpa as Santa, my kids didn't cry once! YAY

So here is the Creature Power discs that one of my followers asked for. I did make one change, I made a walrus instead of a Dolphin disc. I had been looking for a walrus image for a while and I finally just made one. :) Enjoy :) (tell me if it doesn't work)

Daniels Family

I had the fun time last year to photograph this family. They have some very cute little boys that were interesting to keep still for the pictures :) I forgot to post these on the blog so here they are, better late than never.

Meet the Daniels Family :)

Gruner Family :)

Meet the Gruner family!

I had the wonderful opportunity of photographing this cute little family. Their baby is almost the exact age of my youngest. We will have to get them together soon. :)

Kallie-Jo

I got my photo project done!!

It took a while but I finally finished my Unit 4 photo project!
Now to wait for the grade and critiques. :s

Wild Kratts Birthday Party!

For my oldest son's birthday party, he asked for a Wild Kratts theme. I had an idea for the cake, which turned out great!


Then I started researching Wild Kratts on the Internet and I found a blog that showed how to make creature power suits.



I started searching for pictures of creature power discs online and I couldn't find any anywhere, so I decided to make them myself on my digital scrapbooking program.



I think they turned out pretty great for having to do them from scratch! I then laminated them, and added a piece of Velcro to the back so they would stick to the suit.

I made 6 different discs. Monarch Butterfly, Basilisk lizard, Falcon, Polar Bear, Dolphin, and African Honey Bee. I put each set of discs,(ie: all the falcon discs, etc)in envelopes and labeled them with numbers and a task they had to do. Once the party started, the "Creature Power Team" had to find #1, and then do what is said on the envelope to get the disc.

#1 was the Monarch Butterfly. I decided that they had to split into 2 teams and wrap one team mate/per team, in toilet paper and then they had to break out of their cocoon to get the creature power disc.



Then they flew like butterflies to the next #.

#2 was a Basilisk Lizard, who can run on water!, so they had to crawl race to the next #.



#3 was the Falcon disc. We played "Mouse, Mouse, Falcon!" (Duck, Duck, Goose) Once everyone had a turn being the falcon, we then went to find the next #.

#4 was the Polar Bear. This one was an tough one cause if it was nice outside I was going to have a slip and slide for the kids to slide on their bellies like polar bears, but since I wasn't sure what the weather would be like, we decided to play Freeze Tag.




#5 was the Dolphin disc, and since dolphins are so smart, they had to put a 10 piece dolphin puzzle together as a team (each person got two puzzle pieces).

Last of all was #6, the African Honey Bee. I had no idea what to do for this creature, but this was one that my son really wanted because they have a deadly sting, so I just had them go find their parents and "sting" them. :)






All in all, we had a great time and the kids were happy because they got to take the creature power suits and discs home when they left.