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Learning.....

I've become pretty comfortable snapping pictures with both mine and Troy's camera. Portraits, playing or doing whatever I click away till I get what I want. But........I want to get to the point that I can get the "money shot" of the kids ski racing (close to) every time. I think I'm getting there but I've been running into a lot of environmental issues. Lighting on the snow has been a bit of a challenge and unless you have some super, crazy high power, fast flash, each pictures takes some post editing time. Obviously there is always that optimal time of the day when the light is perfect but that doesn't always happen. Take for instance, I was on the hill last Sunday morning trying to snap pics of the kids and the hill and direction of the sun were all facing right at me (the wrong direction) because taking pictures into the sun is not ideal. I took tons of pics of the kids backs because that is the way the sun was shinning. All the shadows were not making it easy either. I think I got some pretty great pics of the kids like the ones I posted a few posts ago of Stella. What I really wanted to get some good pictures of though were the really fast boys training up above us Luckily I had our really big lens so I could take some pictures from down below but what I really wanted to do is hike up to the spot and sit right under that gate and snap away. Unfortunately that didn't happen so this was the best I could do. Someday I'll get there. 

Don't know who this is and the pic is from really far away but the timing was okay! 
The lighting is freakin tricky!

Work in progress! 

The easier shot with sunshine from behind! 

Happy Thursday! 
Love and Gratitude! 

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