Tonight, I am really tired

I shot two updates and two videos. Which is normally not tiring, but today I wanted to shoot in my living room. See, my ceilings are 22' tall in there, so there's no "ceiling" for my camera flash to bounce off of, so taking pics in there is kinda difficult. But my tree is in there, my grinch decorated tree and my little Christmas village sits beneath it. I wanted to shoot in front of that. I did, but it wore me out trying to do it! After 42 test pics, yep seriously, 42 test pics, we finally got the light acceptable to shoot the pics. I haven't looked at them yet, so fingers crossed they turned out ok.
And I don't shoot videos in there much, because I have so many family photos on my walls and I can't "blur" them in my video editing software. So I have to be very carefeul where I shoot.
I bet you guys think we just pull out a camera and go for it?

I wish it was that simple, I mean in the early years, that's what I did. But the pics were grainy and sometimes dark. I didn't like that at all. So now we try and pay attention to our light source. We don't use any photo studio lighting, but we have an external flash on our camera and we use the natural light from the windows. But it requires planning on where in the room to shoot. I would say the easiest shooting we ever did was the Texas Bash. We just took the camera and yep, we went for it! OMG that was such a fun time!! I had never been to a bash before, and I was so nervous! Remember Miss Angelique? I shot a vintage set with her and I remember I had no idea what I was doing, but the pics really turned out amazing! I think I shot two or three with Buddah...... and Oh Alex and I did one with Redman TX........and I was shooting the whole time with an almost healed broken ankle! I would walk up to the shooting area in a boot, a boot for a fractured foot, not a sexy knee high boot! And I'd take it off and put on my six inch heels for the pics!

I'm off to get ready for bed. Yep, I'm old and going to bed before 9 pm..........but I have to get up like at 4:30 tomorrow, so.......
Night Night
