it's almost christmas

I'm really looking forward for Christmas. I'm hoping to take a lot of different pictures this break, with friends and family, of the outdoors, and hopefully some festive pictures as well.

Christmas means the whole family is going to be home, and half of my family is kids, so I am hoping to get some good pictures with my little siblings, nieces and nephews.

Also my sister has just recently had a baby, so she asked me to have a photo shoot with their family, and get some good baby pictures. I'm feeling nervous about that, cause it's another project that I have no idea how to do. So this is my next step at the moment. Tips on baby pictures and Family pictures. I'm hoping my oldest sister Tamara, who knows photography, will give me some good guidelines.

Family Pictures

Doing the Algera's pictures what I was nervous about, especially with my camera not working properly. It ended up being a beautiful day, and because of the time change, the sun wasn't directly over head which was perfect. It really only took me 20 min. I gave some suggestions on how to stand and what not to do, but we found a shady spot with the fall trees in the background and they ended up being fine. I got Danielle and Raychel to switch sides about half way through, and I actually ended up liking those last ones better. I also played around with my zooming and different settings, but like I said the sun was perfect so the lighting ended up being just fine.

I don't really have anything to compare them to, so I don't really know if they are decent or not... but the they liked them and even got it developed already so I must have done something right. I'm not going to post a bunch of them because, they in the end are all the same thing.