[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by fotografferKel

I just stumbled upon this thread. Love love love photo taking. Cajun Dee, I just fell in love with you. I love your thoughts on capturing the perfect shot. I am right there with you. I love your web site. I, too was born and raised in Louisiana. I am from Bossier City. I left LA in 2000 for Hot Springs, Arkansas. I have lived in the mountains ever since. Still love my swamps and cypress trees though.

Linus, thank you for starting this thread. Your photos are awesome. I envy the places you have visited. I love taking photos. Honestly, I can't stand taking pics of people. I am a landscape photographer. I don't mind taking photos of people who are unsuspecting of it. Like homeless people or a child exploring our beautiful world we live in. I am just a freelancer at heart. I also have found that my 12 year old daughter is a pretty good photographer. She has opened up another type of photography to me. She stages shots. Heck, I am enjoying getting up on a Saturday morning and spending the day just walking around our small town and exploring with our cameras and seeing what kind of stuff we can get into. Spending time with her and with our cameras is just priceless.

I opened my photography studio in our small town of 900 plus people this week. I'm excited and scared. Any thoughts about this? All ideas are accepted!!! I am going about this by the seat of my pants!!! I did a "Christmas Kiddo's Photo Contest" and I'm doing a free sitting fee and a DVD with photos on it and a Memory DVD set to the parents favorite song to the photos. The parent can take the DVD to Walmart and print the photos out. It went over well. I got 349 new people on my FB photo page.

Anyway, I use a NIKON D3100 and LOVE IT! I have always used NIKON even when I used a 35mm. I gave my daughter my NIKON CoolPix P500 to use. It's a Point and Shoot. She is amazing with it. I bought Photoshop and a book to learn to use it, but am scared to death of it. I NEED to learn how to use it so bad. I use Picnik to edit photos. I KNOW I need to use a more adult program. I'm fixing to make myself learn to use Photoshop!!!

Okay, I'm shutting up. Photography is my life. I love it!

Thanks everyone! Kel

WOW, Bossier City? Never thought I would hear that name outside of Louisiana.

Well we are much alike, Kel. I don't like shooting people either. One thing I love is candid shots like you say, I used to love taking pics of the kids camping and enjoying ice cream at the resort I worked at, fishing pics, a cute little girl outfishing her dad, stuff like that. I don't think I could do studio work. I like the big ole sky and the great outdoors.

OK where is your FB page! You can do lots of contests on FB pages and stuff, get people excited about it...

What do you plan to shoot in your studio? Or is it for your finished photos?