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Becky Earl – be ART bio picture

My Passion

Welcome to Becky Earl Photography!

For a little over a year, photography has been a huge passion and love of mine. I started wanting to take great pictures of my kids and quickly learned that I wanted so much more out of it. It was a way for me to express myself creavtively and artistically. I bought my first DSLR in August of 2007 and from there my journey as a photographer began.

This is not an easy passion to have. I have spent most every day and night for the past year studying my camera and learning all I can to help me grow as a photographer. I am self taught and have put all that I have into learning this amazing craft.

Find your passion. LIVE it, BREATHE it, and DO it!

My Work

While I love photography, I look at it as a really fun hobby. My family comes first and I love being a stay at home mom to my two beautiful little girls. In order to make sure my family is #1 in my life I take a limited amount of sessions each month. Please be prepared to book 2-4 weeks in advance.

It is very important for me to show people's connections and interaction with my work. The best way to do that is to capture the families and individuals just being themselves.

I hope that you enjoy looking at my work. If you would like to book a session with me, please contact me through the Contact page at the top.

Thanks!

 

Helpful Hints – TEXTURES! – be ART

First off let me tell you I am not a HUGE textures person. I like them, but hardly ever use them. The photograph really would just absolutely NEED it. I used it on a few on the latest bridal shots. I feel it worked with a lot of those because they lent to a more vintage feel. But since I feel I do more “lifestyle” images, textures just aren’t a big part of my post process. BUT, since the bridal post I have gotten quite a few inquiries on how to do textures…so here we go.

Before you start make sure you pick an image that would look great with texture. Then…you will need some textures. There are many places on line where you can buy textures. I have bought a few different ones from Nichole Van. You can also go HERE Deviant Art. They have many free textures that you can use. Google free textures and tons will come up OR you can take pictures of your own textures. You can take pictures of tree bark, textured walls, peeling paint, basically anything with well…..texture. :) I have a file called, you guessed it, Textures and place all of them in there.

My adorable model for today is a gorgeous girl from The Secret Workshop I went to last year. I was looking over the images and decided to use this.

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Okay Step 1- Edit your picture to your liking. I usually will edit skin, color and contrast before the texture is applied. Here is my image to begin with.hh web

Step 2- Choose a texture. I have fancier textures, but for this I decided to go more “urban” since it’s more of an urban shot.
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Step 3- Apply your texture to your image. I am sure there are many ways to do this and probably easier ways…but this is how I do it…
-Open your image in photoshop.
-In another window open your texture of choice.
-On your texture image grab the marque tool (circled below) then drag that tool from one corner to the other. So you see “marching ants” around your image.
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-Then you will copy. I am on a pc so I just hit Control C.
-You can now close this image (if you like) I do because I hate knowing things are open all over…I’m crazy :)
-Now open up your image you would like to have your texture applied to. Paste your texture right onto it. I just hit Control V. Photoshop will make a new layer automatically.
Should look like this…
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-Now you want to hit Free Transform. On my puter I hit Control T. You can also hit Edit and go down to the Free Transform option. This will let you move any and all sides of your texture. (Make sure Layer 1 is selected and not background). Drag the corners of your texture so it covers your edited image completely.
-Then hit enter or double click inside the texture image. This will set it in place on your image.
Now, the fun begins…..
-We need to choose a blending option. I “usually” choose between Overlay, Soft Light and Hard Light. BUT you can play with all of them and see what you like. It really depends on the image for me. On this one I chose Hard Light. Let’s go big :)
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-You can adjust your opacity to whatever you like. On this I am going with about 70%.
-Now this part you can EITHER mask back the skin by creating a clipping mask or you can do what I do and use my handy dandy SMUDGE tool. (Looks like the hand with the pointer finger) If you use the smudge tool don’t create a mask. Just do it right on the layer.
-The great thing about the smudge tool is that it will only smudge away the texture, but not the color of the texture. Because I don’t care for it when pictures have color textures but the skin is erased or masked back to the original color and it just doesn’t look right. So this is a great tool for texture.
-Once you have your smudge tool selected then you just drag down where you want the texture to be gone. I usually do all skin on the face and actually most anywhere with skin, but will leave a tad on arms and a tad on clothing. Just so there is a good transition to the full texture. The arrow on the face is where I dragged the texture down.
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-I do that as much or little as I like and then if there are any other edits I want to apply after that then go ahead.
FINAL PRODUCT…
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Hope this helped.

Just a reminder….this helpful hint is for photographers or people who take their own pictures. Please remember that if you have purchased photos from a professional photographer and you were not given full copyright, adding textures or adding any changes to a photo is against the law. Please only play with your own photos :)

Thanks everyone. Let me know if you have any other questions.

-be

July 3, 2009 - 5:21 pm Kris - Love it!! Thanks that was super helpful!!!

July 3, 2009 - 6:01 pm Cindy - Ahhhhh, I luv u 4 this!!!! I'm off to play now :)

July 3, 2009 - 8:15 pm Tara - I can't wait to play with this. You are so kind to share your knowledge! Seriously, maybe you could put together some kind of workbook for people like me to buy. I can't understand most of the tutorials I read. For future tutorials...how about teaching us how to insert backgrounds into a photo? You know like the grey one you did on Caden's photo?

all I wanted to do was practice my lighting… – be ART

but I had no willing subjects. sooooo I jumped in and here we are. I had a great time actually. It’s so fun doing these self portrait projects because I can be someone I am not. I can play around and be different people (if you will). By nature I am not very sexy and seductive….hahahah NOT.AT.ALL. I am pretty goofy and plain. But in these I can kind of play that character. So fun. I challenge you all to do more self portraits and get creative. Not just with shooting, but in photoshop too. You can do anything you want with self portraits.  Next time, I am gonna do some that are more me. Colorful and funky…..and maybe show some of this gargantuon belly….hmmm maybe:)   Soooo till next time.

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A mini series I like to call Night and Day. I love these two so much for many different reasons. I think I am a bit of a drama queen when it comes to lighting. In Night, I love the dark shadows and overall fashion feel. In this shot I feel strong, beautiful and powerful. I also love Day, because I also feel beautiful in this shot. Just a different kind of beautiful. I feel more open, more vulnerable and more honest. It is light and airy and just a nice beauty shot. Two very different lighting techniques with two very lovely outcomes.
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I had fun with these two adding a little make-up only using dodge, burn and sponge tool.
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My next album cover…haha not really, but it could work?!
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Some fun Becky shots. Yep, that’s me. Goofy self.
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Now here are some that just make me laugh every time I see them. The problem with doing your own self portraits is you can’t see what the heck you look like. You just take a few shots and basically hope for the best.

This is a funny one I like to call. Roxanne. Remember the song Roxanne…? Yeah I played with makeup in photoshop and decided to take it to another level. haharad lighting becky 010 web

Then this one. Secretary of the Year. aaaaaaaaaaahhhahaha. I love wearing my hair in a bun. I have a lot of hair and it’s so nice to just stick it up on my head. Justin hates it and now I see what he means. hahaha
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okay seriously stop laughing! It hurts. hahahahaaaa

Thanks for looking!

-be

PS- Helpful Hints – TEXTURES coming soon. So sorry…I just got carried away with these. hmm off to work :)

July 1, 2009 - 2:15 pm jennifer - wow these are gorgeous all of them, even the funny ones!

July 1, 2009 - 2:27 pm Aubry C - These are great! And it is actually a steller idea... :-)

July 1, 2009 - 4:03 pm Jessica - Wow! These are so friggin awesome!! I love all your personalities in these...haha its like you are two faced..or three or four faced :) Do you turn a fan on to get the flowing hair?? Thats soo awesome..haha. I really would like to know what your lighting set up is. Maybe if its not too hard or expensive I could set something like that up and do some fun self portraits!! Also, how do you set your focus points in advance to get your eyes if you are only hitting a remote button?

July 1, 2009 - 4:20 pm Megan - Totally gorgeous! Although my faves have got to be the goofy pics. :)

July 1, 2009 - 5:07 pm brooke - I am dying, these.. YOU are gorgeous! You would never guess you have a "big belly". So cool, I would love to do this.. just don't know.. how??? You are gorgeous. I bet your hubby is drooling over these bad boys!

July 1, 2009 - 5:49 pm rychelle - please, please, please come back to vegas and teach a class! your skills are out of this world!

July 1, 2009 - 6:51 pm Cindy - are you kidding me?! becky, these are insanely gorgeous! my fave is the 1st one.

July 1, 2009 - 7:13 pm Connie R - My gosh, Becky! Most people would love to hire a fabulous photographer to get shots like that and edit them the way that you did, but you did this on yourself? I'm SUPER impressed! Did you have any kind of paint tutorial in PS or did you just wing it? Wow!

July 1, 2009 - 9:10 pm shannon - these are stunning!!

July 2, 2009 - 8:37 am becky - THANK YOU thank you! Really appreciate the love :) -Jessica, I only use one light (always). I have two flashes, but only one fires. So I have my 580 on my camera (does not fire) and that acts as my transmitter (I have a radio popper attached to that) then I have my 430 (receiver radio popper on that) on a stand (y actual light source) Unfortunately the 430 cannot trigger the 580. Anyways...I point my 430 light into an either closed down or open umbrella and viola. It is kind of expensive since you have to have two flashes, two radio poppers and an umbrella or softbox. If you have pocketwizards you can use those as well. -Connie, I have no idea what paint in ps you are talking about. lol I just played around with everything. lol Are you talking about the make-up? I totally just winged that. Thanks again...I can't wait for the next self portrait project. If you do one...please come back and post a link so I can see :)

July 2, 2009 - 12:29 pm Chelsea - Is it fair that you have AMAZING photography skills AND your gorgeous? I don't think so! :D These are fabulous!

July 2, 2009 - 3:38 pm Nicole Cave - I want you to take some of these "twilight" shots of me one of these days. I seriously love all of them. I think you are sexy! We can all bring that out every once in awhile...it's ok. But I love your funny side too.

July 2, 2009 - 9:44 pm Shelly Mackey - I love these new pics. I think you look beautiful in these. When you were younger you didn't really remind me of your mom but in some of these pics you look a little like your mom.The lighting is really great. You are a very talented photographer. I don't like to take pics of people I prefer landscapes and animals.

July 3, 2009 - 2:01 pm Niki - Woman! good grief you are amazing! I love the secretary shot as well as the others :) my fav? aaaaaaah, pain pain pain, do I have to choose??? I want to be you in my next life :)

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Awwww Mr. – be ART

This little guy is the sweetest ten month old. ever. true story! He smiled and played and was in the best mood ALL DAY! His mom is my dear friend and sister to the beautiful bride below. He hung in there while we did engagements, and then shopped, lunch at Red Robin (not hard to endure.mmmm) then bridals and then finally it was his turn. Yep. He was still happy. Love him! Love his smile, love his big brown eyes…love it all! Thanks Laird for being quite the trooper..all day!

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Thanks for looking!

-be

June 29, 2009 - 7:43 pm Jessica - Is it weird that I am the first to comment again? Haha- maybe I have this 6th sense that tells me right after you do another post on your blog. Haha...adorable pictures!!! Love this little guy!

June 29, 2009 - 8:58 pm shannon - so, so cute!! adorable kiddo, fantastic shots!

June 29, 2009 - 10:20 pm Mary - Oh, my goodness! Those just make me melt! His bottom lip is so yummy I could just eat it up! He is funny with his tongue! I can hear the razzle noises he was making! I love them Becky! Thank you!

June 30, 2009 - 5:09 am Beth Benoit - OMG, seriously adorable! Gotta love that hair!

June 30, 2009 - 9:18 am rychelle - awwwwww, is right! i love these shots. and his little faux-hawk.

June 30, 2009 - 1:26 pm Jessica England - I love this little guy! Great pictures Becky:)

July 1, 2009 - 8:19 am jaime - oh becky these are adorable! he sounded like such the trooper! that must have been an all day session! you go! utah is treating you well!++

July 1, 2009 - 8:52 pm Jess Kamm - He is the cutest little boy EVER!! Nice images, LOVE them!

July 2, 2009 - 3:36 pm Nicole Cave - Ohhhhhhhhh, I miss them. He is going to be walking by the next time I see him.

You know when…

you see a couple and can *just tell* they are so in love? No pretending, no trying too hard to impress, no insecurities or feeling foolish. Just plain old in love with who they truly are. This is them. Remember meeting the gorgeous bride from my post below? Let me introduce her truly wonderful fiance Reggie. They are in love and anyone can see it. The way they looked at each other. The way they could play around and yet be serious and meaningful at the same time. Yah, it was awesome photographing these two. So much fun! They were willing to be silly and then turn it around and just be in love. *swoon* Just a few….

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Thanks for looking!

-be

June 26, 2009 - 7:41 pm Mary - I agree! They are such a cute couple. They are actually here cleaning my empty house for me. They are so nice!!!! I love them and can't wait to have Reggie as a brother!!

June 26, 2009 - 8:07 pm Beth Benoit - WOW! These are amazing! Great job!

June 26, 2009 - 9:46 pm Tiffany - I SERIOUSLY can't believe how much her and Mary LOOK so much alike!!!! I know they are sisters but WOW the resemblance is amazing! Such sweet shoots! Terry totally knows when I get home from shooting an engagement........ I am just in la-la land! So good Becky!

June 27, 2009 - 9:08 am Jessica - This girl really is beautiful! They are going to have beautiful wedding pictures too :) Great job on these Becky- they are awesome! :)

June 27, 2009 - 10:29 am Jenn Mac - Beautiful couple! LOVE your angles. You can feel how they feel about each other in these images!

June 27, 2009 - 7:32 pm Lisa Conk - love these pictures!! paula is supposed to be calling you to set up a time to take pictures. we are going to be up there on the 11th so i think that is when she wants to do it. let me know if she doesn't call you soon. she has a lot on her plate but i really want to make sure they got some pictures. thanks again becky!! you ROCK!!!

June 27, 2009 - 9:25 pm Linda - Becky, you are awesome! I can't believe how fast you got these up. Thank you, thank you, thank you... a million times over. I couldn't be more happy with the way these and the bridals turned out! We looked at these and felt like rockstars! And just to let everyone know how cool Becky really is... she photographed Reggie and I dancing when we first "met." How did she know? It's priceless! Thanks again!

June 28, 2009 - 10:41 pm Melissa - Such beautiful work, Becky. You really captured their emotion and just the simple joy they seem to feel when with each other. Perfect.

June 29, 2009 - 10:13 am rychelle - you captured their love so well. the first shot is my favorite.

Beautiful Bride – Utah Photographer

I was able to go down to St. George, Utah and photograph this beautiful girls bridals. (we also did her engagements…those will be up soon) She is so beautiful, kind and just really down to earth. She was a blast to photograph and was up for anything. She even let me try my lighting on some. THAT was really fun. It was such a beautiful cloudy day. It was nice and warm. It was perfect. Thanks so much for letting me capture this beautiful time in your life! Just a few….

Meet Linda.

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Thanks for looking!

-be

June 22, 2009 - 2:05 pm rychelle - stunning! i love that you took advantage of the beautiful sky!

June 22, 2009 - 3:56 pm Nicole Cave - I can't believe my little sis is getting married...I still feel like it was yesterday that I was playing mommy and pulling her around in a wagon. She is beautiful...you did a great job Beck...I can hardly wait to see their engagements!

June 22, 2009 - 4:19 pm Jessica - She is a gorgeous bride! I love these :) Especially your use of textures, it really gives the bride a vintage feel. It looks like the day was beautiful too. Great job Becky ;)

June 22, 2009 - 4:46 pm Sarah Mansur - wow, these are GORGEOUS!!!!

June 22, 2009 - 7:17 pm Kristi - Becky. Wow. You get better and better. I think these are just stunning. I agree, you used the textures with perfection. Favorites are the black and white on the top, and the 2 pictures in the 3rd row. Love them ! Great job as usual !

June 22, 2009 - 8:37 pm whitakers - certainly looks like the closest thing to heaven... Radiant Linda! We love you!!!

June 22, 2009 - 11:53 pm brooke - So beautiful Becky! I guess we were both in the wedding spirit this week ;) These turned out lovely, I bet she (or more so her fiance) is dying over these!!!

June 23, 2009 - 7:14 am Jessica England - Que Linda! Becky these are so awesome:)

June 23, 2009 - 12:37 pm Melissa - Love these - she's a beautiful bride & you've done a great job showcasing her beauty! I love the leg shot. :)

June 23, 2009 - 7:36 pm Jenn Mac - GORGEOUS! Congrats on your first baby boy!! Yay! The girls will eat him up!

June 23, 2009 - 10:46 pm Aubrey - LOVE THE PICTURES!! You do a fantastic job. I love the vintage looking pictures, they're awesome! Linda your gorgeous!!

June 24, 2009 - 4:31 am Tiffany - So beautiful!! I can't believe how much she looks like Mary! So pretty!

June 25, 2009 - 5:59 am Kris - Absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!! wonderful job Becky :)

June 28, 2009 - 10:43 pm Melissa - these are so you, Becky. wow. just amazing as always. Your work continues to inspire and gets better and better with each post. She is such a gorgeous bride.

June 29, 2009 - 2:45 pm Father of the Bride - That's my beautiful baby girl! Wonderful job Becky

Facebook, Pictures, Appreciation – Utah Photographer

He ya’ll!                          (I am laughing because I just realized I wrote ya’ll. I am from Las Vegas…we don’t say ya’ll) hahaha  ANYWHO- Just wanted to let everyone know that I got the Becky Earl Photography Facebook page and Twitter up and running. Be sure to check them out. I will be running specials and events on Facebook, that I might not post here, so be sure to become a fan. The links are in my menu up top. That is all.

I also wanted to say a big huge THANKS for all of your beautiful comments with each of my posts. Your loving words do special things to my <3!  And well, what would a post on a photography blog be without pictures?! So, here are my babes.

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Thanks for looking!

-be

June 17, 2009 - 4:17 pm CIndy - lol on the ya'll. I'm from texas so I say it all the time. ha. cute shots!

June 17, 2009 - 4:44 pm Zoe - I love your work! Such a great perspective and use of light! Keep them coming!

June 18, 2009 - 5:25 am Mandy - I just love the hazy, warm light in these. They give the photographs such a fun and summery feel.

June 18, 2009 - 7:51 am Andrea - Hey ya'll! LOL, I say that too. LOVELY backlighting here, it makes me sigh....

June 18, 2009 - 10:54 am Jessica - Love the sun! We need some sun here in Seattle...seriously, maybe we can share? :) Have a great (almost) weekend!

June 18, 2009 - 1:57 pm Lesley - Ah! They are so darn cute!! :D

June 19, 2009 - 10:46 am Giovanna - Cutie pie!! LOL...I slip and say y'all sometimes too! I'm from North Carolina though, so that's my excuse, but Florida is very northern (all the transplants) so I get funny looks!

June 20, 2009 - 12:41 pm Angela Fielding - Welcome to Utah! A colleague of mine said she stumbled accross your blog. And that your work was impressive. I must agree. You do a beautiful job! I hope you all is going well with the adjusting to a new place. You will love Utah! There is so much eye candy!

You know what I loved about today? -Utah Photographer

All the laughter!

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Oh and these….
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Today was a great day.

Thanks for looking!

-be

June 16, 2009 - 7:03 pm Kris Teixeira - LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!! You have such a beautiful family!! Little kids giggles make the best pictures.. :)

June 16, 2009 - 7:47 pm Tara - Every day should be a great day when you have those gorgeous grins to look at and love. I love how you capture those priceless family moments. Why can't I just buy a camera to take those sorts of shots?

June 16, 2009 - 8:01 pm Jackie Jean - Gosh these are perfect!! I may have to have my family take a roadtrip to Utah for family pictures.......love your style :)

June 16, 2009 - 8:18 pm Jessica - Lol @ Tara :) Beautiful captures- I think your family is so sweet and we can really tell the love you all have for one another. Cherish those moments...!!

June 16, 2009 - 8:39 pm Meghan Poort - Becky! These images are so you!! Love the shot of you flying Sadie with Jason and Jessie looking at you!! You rock chick!

June 16, 2009 - 8:40 pm Meghan Poort - oh my gosh.. Justin.. loosing my mid :)

June 16, 2009 - 9:15 pm Zoe - No way!!! I am in love with these! love that you used the fisheye!

June 16, 2009 - 9:19 pm CIndy - I LOVE these! Such happy memories.

June 16, 2009 - 10:19 pm becky - Thank you all so much for your sweet comments! I honestly appreciate them! And yes Tara, that kind of camera would make my job A LOT easier. hahaha

June 16, 2009 - 10:46 pm amy adams - Hey Becky! Looks like you're having a fun time in Utah and congrats on your little BOY in your tummy! Let me know if you're ever in town and we should get a bunch of us together since we never got a chance to. You're pictures are simply amazing...really amazing! You are definitely an inspiration!

June 17, 2009 - 1:33 am Michelle Mullins - i love these! so fun and full of life!

June 17, 2009 - 6:26 am jaime - i wanna laugh like that! great family shots!

June 17, 2009 - 10:14 am Giovanna - Great work!! I really feel the energy!! You did an amazing job!!

June 20, 2009 - 12:22 am Melissa - Becky, every pic in this post makes me smile. Such joy you captured. And best of all, you captured it of YOUR OWN family. Such fun!

June 28, 2009 - 8:17 pm alicia - Becky, these are PEEEERFECT! These just made me smile, you have such a beautiful family!

June 30, 2009 - 9:28 pm Melissa Rodriguez - Gorgeous images! You have a beautiful family and a wonderful eye for capturing THE moment!

Lovely Visitors – Utah Photographer

Since moving to Utah we have certainly missed seeing our family and friends. The Shaffer’s are people who we Earl’s absolutely LOVE. They were up here in beautiful Utah and well of course we had to see them…which meant of course we needed some pictures. PLUS I hadn’t even met baby Eden yet. I got some that I really love and hope they do too! Just a few….

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Ummm yeah…no doubt why these children are so beautiful…look at  mom!
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I love this series. It’s never a TRUE family photo session unless someone is caught picking their nose.
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This one could most definitely be my favorite family shot of the day. I LOVE how Nate and Kim are looking at each other. Despite the total chaos of having a growing family, you can still feel their love for one another. *swoon*
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Thanks for looking!

-be

June 15, 2009 - 6:42 pm Annalisa Fish - How can you not absolutely just LOVE the Shaffers?!? They are the most beautiful family in the world and their pictures totally show how much love is in their family :)

June 15, 2009 - 7:38 pm Giovanna - These are stunning!! You did an amazing job of capturing the love and connection this family has! love it, great job!

June 15, 2009 - 7:53 pm Zoe - Wow!!! I love these!! So creative and full of connection!

June 15, 2009 - 8:28 pm Lisa Kryschuk - Becky...these are stunning! What a beautiful family! Lovely stuff!

June 15, 2009 - 8:31 pm Jessica - Wow...how gorgeous is this fam?? Seriously? Beautiful pics..and those kids are oh so sweet!

June 15, 2009 - 8:37 pm Stacey - These are simply fabulous! Gorgeous family and awesome photographs!

June 15, 2009 - 8:48 pm Kristi Mangan - These are stunning! I love the babygap dresses! Love your processing on these... I am sure they will LOVE them!

June 15, 2009 - 10:16 pm TracyT - Oh wow. These are stunning. I love them all. So sweet. Beautiful moments captured!

June 16, 2009 - 5:51 am Ann - These are gorgeous! I love everything about them, the color, the connection, the angles! You rock! Beautiful family!

June 16, 2009 - 7:54 am Connie R - I'm a big fan of your work Becky! Awesome as always!

June 16, 2009 - 10:01 am jennifer - wow what a beautiful family, and that shot of mom and baby up close wow, gorgeous!!

June 16, 2009 - 10:22 am Heidi K - These are fabulous! I love the first family shot, and the one where you shot down on baby from above mom's head. Great work!!!

June 16, 2009 - 12:19 pm Amanda - Such wonderful photos of a gorgeous family! I love all of the emotion you captured!

June 16, 2009 - 3:36 pm casandra heeren - wow! i love every. single. one! and your post processing is just fantastic! you are such an inspiration.

June 19, 2009 - 11:06 am Courtney - What a beautiful family oh my gosh! I love every single one of those! Great job Becky!

June 22, 2009 - 8:45 am melissa - amazing family shots. love the B&W's.

Tinkering with FLASH! – Utah Photographer

Tonight I got my lighting all set up and decided to play with it a bit. Sadie and my hubby Justin were my models…crazy hair and all. It was fun and I got a couple shots that I love. Can’t wait to learn more!

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On this one I thought it needed a more gritty post process. I think it rocks.
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Question: how could this beautiful child come from this scary man??? This picture has had us laughing for about an hour now. If Justin were ever to get arrested, I am sure this is what his mugshot would look like.
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Thanks for looking!

-be

June 14, 2009 - 10:26 pm shannon - looks fantastic! love the second one!

June 15, 2009 - 12:07 am Jessica - These are awesome!! I love your husbands serious looks and definitely his crazy hair. The light is very dramatic on his face and I think works well for males. Great job :) What set up are you using? Strobes or just a speedlight?

June 15, 2009 - 12:19 am Kimberly Marie - I love these! The lighting is wonderful. I love the "mugshot"! All of them are fantastic. :)

June 15, 2009 - 4:38 am Beth Benoit - 1&4 are perfection! Great job!

June 15, 2009 - 6:47 am Kris Teixeira - WOW The 3rd one if ur hubs is LOVELY!!!! And Sadie is gorgeous as always...LOL on the mugshot one, very funny..Great job!!!

June 15, 2009 - 7:19 am Jeanette - She's seriously beautiful!! Love the photos, even of your scary husband :)

June 15, 2009 - 8:42 am CIndy - These are so much fun. The lighting rocks! HA your hubby is funny with the mugshot look! Your girl is gorgeous.

June 15, 2009 - 11:17 am Mary Stuart - I am taking a break from packing...boy am I glad that I did. That last pick of Justin is freaking hilarious! Sorry Justin!! Your son is going to have great hair though!!! Holy cow you have good hair! I'm jealous.

June 15, 2009 - 1:38 pm Kerri - Wow Sadie eyes are exactly the same as Justins! What fun!!

June 15, 2009 - 5:30 pm becky - Thanks so much! I am still laughing at that last picture. I kept asking Justin if it was okay to post it and he said JUST DO IT! He even made it his Facebook profile. hahaha! My set up was off camera flash (canon 580 ex II) using radio poppers to trigger.

June 15, 2009 - 6:11 pm Ryan - Ha Ha! I think you should do a series of "mugshot" photos. Just get random people who would be willing to show up straight out of bed and take their "mugshot". That would be hilarious. Actually, it would be funnier if we knew these people.

June 16, 2009 - 12:36 am brooke - Maybe it's just me.. but is there is something about your hubby that reminds me of Denny off of Greyes.... hmm... ;)

June 16, 2009 - 12:36 am brooke - PS like i said in the email.. these are insanely awesome!!!

June 16, 2009 - 10:17 am Nicole Boren - Ezra and I were looking at these together and he pointed to Sadie and said "Who's that, I think she is soooo pertty!" That is exactly how he said it too!

June 18, 2009 - 12:57 am Jennie Slade - wow... those really are the work of a great photographer.

June 19, 2009 - 10:47 am Giovanna - You crack me up!! That first shot seriously took my breath away!

June 29, 2009 - 3:53 pm Jenny - These pictures are just amazing! Every last one of them!

I couldn’t resist…a few more – Utah Photographer

I edited a few more and we even shot a few more at a junk yard we found. When we asked the guy if we could shoot there he looked at us like we were crazy! We told him we were trying to think out of the box and be creative. hahaha I didn’t know what he would say and then finally he smiled and said, “have fun and be careful.” Yay! It was fun but it poured on us and was crazy windy. Still got some I love.

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Thanks for looking!

-be

June 12, 2009 - 12:39 pm Tammy - I especially love the up-close B&W. She is such a beautiful girl! Great Job!

June 12, 2009 - 7:20 pm Jessica - These are amazing!! Love them ALL :)

June 13, 2009 - 11:59 am Lisa Lenderink - Don't you think that a lot of people think we are CRAZY for the locations we just crave? Fantabulous work Becky!

June 13, 2009 - 2:09 pm shannon - SO gorgeous!! i love them all!

June 13, 2009 - 7:08 pm bonnie - just recently came across your blog. i think you are a wonderful photographer and super inspiring being a stay at home mom as well. i love checking your blog and seeing your work.