Sarah Easter {Photography}

Valentine’s 2010

Sarah — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:23:05 +0000

I haven’t updated in a while.. but I wanted to share some cute images of my kids for Valentine’s Day.

Sneak Peek for Lamar

Sarah — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:37:40 +0000

Thank you for coming over this afternoon – Andrew is such a cutie!

My little girl is FOUR!

Sarah — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:38:41 +0000

She just keeps getting prettier Her hair is finally as long as it was last summer.. amazing to look back just 6 months and and see how crazy short it was!

Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk 2009: Austin, TX

Sarah — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:11:21 +0000

This was a lot of fun – makes me sad I was sick for the last one, I wish I had been able to go! Enjoy the slideshow of my favorite images of the day

It’s that time of year again..

Sarah — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:24:32 +0000

Happy Valentine’s Day! I did a shoot yesterday with my kids, and while the little one didn’t really cooperate, I got some great shots of the bigger two

And something I don’t normally play around with much.. textures. This is likely a bit much but I had fun doing it so I thought I’d share anyways

I can’t wait for spring

Sarah — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:00:07 +0000

I want more of these!

It’s a new year…

Sarah — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:25:17 +0000

and about time that I updated again! I haven’t been up to much, since I’ve been really busy with my kids. Odin started walking right around Christmas and he’s been into everything.

Seth is still my uncooperative model

Kaia’s hair is slowly growing back as well.. I took this mid-December when she was student of the week at her preschool

Happy Halloween!

Sarah — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:26:42 +0000

I’ve been neglecting my blog again (as if that’s anything new!) but I got a new backdrop recently and wanted to share a pumpkin pic

Back to School!

Sarah — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:35:32 +0000

What a big day for my 3 year old.. her first day of Preschool!

She acted like she’d been going her whole life.. and didn’t want to stop playing to come home, it was really cute. I’m glad she’s enjoying it – and I’m really enjoying just having my littlest one in the house 3 mornings a week

I’m starting to love my 85mm again :)

Sarah — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:34:40 +0000

I actually have two at the moment, and I love them both, but for different reasons. My previous post was taken enirely with an 85mm f/1.8, which I recently aquired. In doing so, I realized that many of the perceived “focus issues” I had been having with my 85mm f/1.4 were actually my fault. The 1.4 has SUCH a narrow DOF, especially at close range, that it has nearly no margin for error at all. Finding a balance betwen getting the bokeh I want, and reasonable DOF to produce a sharp image is more of a challenge than with the 50mm f/1.4, which I’ve become so familiar with. However, I realize just how different the bokeh is on both, and while I sort of love the “bad” bokeh the 1.8 produces (the hard edged bokeh as shown in the prior post), it isn’t ideal for everything, and the 1.4 renders a much creamier, smoother, and subtly richer bokeh. Everything in this post was taken with the f/1.4.

I am nailing focus more often.. not wide open, but this close, it doesn’t matter – the background is still totally blurred (and the ladder is about 9″ behind her head.. not far at all). I think I was at f/2.5 here.

I am getting more of the shots I want.. and focusing better with candid and action shots as well..

(a split second later…)

She was actually swinging here.. all by herself!

I am also beginning to “see” things better.. to encorporate elements from the environment around my house to make better and more interesting portraits. She was laughing at daddy riding his dirtbike here.

But when he does this (and lots of it), how can you not laugh

I also took a spur of the moment single shot of my oldest… I realized later just how short his pants have become.. I guess it’s time for a new pair soon Once we do that I plan on getting him set up in ALL of his gear for a real photo shoot.. should be fun.