I DO... not

When you get the call on a Sunday morning from a friend that needs you to help with a wedding they're shooting that day.  You say to yourself, "HELL NO! NEVER AGAIN!"  But it's for the second shoot only, it'll be more relaxed, they say. 

Your heart beats faster, the air becomes thin, beads of sweat appear... "No... no really I can't"

Then that word appears - experience.   Dammit!  

I do need the experience.  Dammit.  

So there I was thinking I was doing swimmingly for about 30mins. When I finally looked at my camera, I had it on the wrong setting the whole time.  So those images aren't the quality they should've been... What a waste. 

Fix the settings... and feel that it's all good now.  

Get home... upload the images... and then scream "NEVER AGAIN!"  

What you thought was at least a hundred good images turns out to be about 10.  

Yeah... I am not a wedding photographer. 

                                         

To Birthday Or Not

I'm not one to celebrate my own birthday, but my cat's... well... sort of.  I took these photos around his made up birthday (I don't actually know the date, as I adopted him)... and almost a month later I'm posting them on the inter webs. 

I'm a bit of a kill joy when it comes to this stuff.  But nonetheless here's my Mr. handsome-pants on his 3rd birthday.  So Proud ^.^

M.I.A

I've been M.I.A lately (not to be confused with the artist M.I.A... I wish I was her, she's a total babe). The evil and cold winter got me and held me captive for awhile.  

While I was being held against my will,  I used the only source of entertainment I could find to help keep me and my photography alive... My iPhone.  So, I created and instagram for Papi.  He's quite the handsome devil and as much as he looks like he detests the camera, he actually loves it!

I've been exploring editing apps and sticker apps and apps upon apps, upon apps to find the best editing tools.  

The only conclusion I have is that it comes down to using as many apps for the one image until you get the result you want.

At the moment, I'm loving VSCO Cam, Afterlight, Snapseed, Line Camera, and Girls Camera. 

With iPhoneography, you don't have some whiz bang lens and fancy pants camera to do the work for you.  If you're not patient and think about your images, you get an extremely boring, blurry and subpar images. 

It's a steep learning curve.  Being patient isn't my virtue, especially when I'm out photographing... let alone photographing my cat that could care less that the light that's illuminating his furry face is perfect for whatever image I'm trying to recreate.  He just keeps moving and I've gotta move with him. 

Papi may not know the skills I'm acquiring or even care about the images, but I do.  I'm learning, growing and that's all I can do.

Follow Papi on Instagram @papi_el_gato