Wild One | Charleston Cake Smash Photographer

She was my first newborn of 2017 and my first smasher of 2018. This baby wins the award for the most animated cake smasher. Enjoy... 

Floral Newborn Session | Charleston Newborn Photographer

She missed Christmas, but came just in time for the Charleston snow. I adore the colors of her session. 

Floral Newborn Session | West Ashley Newborn Photographer

She missed Christmas, but came just in time for the Charleston snow. 

6 month milestone session | Charleston Baby Photographer

You'll have to excuse the photo dump in this blog post, but my momma heart can't handle that my baby is 6 months old. I wanted to document each little detail of him because I know we are quickly leaving infancy and heading straight towards toddlerhood. Cue the tears! Scroll all the way to the bottom to see my assistant in action. He's loving the camera he got for Christmas. 

Rhett, "baby Maddox" (the doll I use to practice with) and my pant-less assistant. 

How to: Tree Light Pictures

1. Wait for night (this was hard for me. You can tell in the picture with both boys that I didn't wait for it to get super dark.)

2. All of the lights off except the tree. I used a lamp across the room to cheat a little and give me a little light. 

3. Camera in manual mode with the following settings as a guideline: 
Aperture all the way open (mine was f 1.8)
Shutter speed slowish (mine was 1/250)
ISO super high (mine was at 5000)
>>> NO FLASH! <<<

Shameless plug - I teach a basics of photography class that will teach you what all of these thing mean :) 

4. Snap way! Who cares if they're technically perfect - have fun with your kiddos. The picture of Landon above... he was calling our tree a gum-nut. I'm not even sure what that means but he thought it was hilarious and made for a cute picture. 

Full disclosure, I did edit my final pictures just for personal preference. 

Before (SOOC)

After 

You can also do these types of pictures during the day for a different, but still fun, look. 

Newborn Session Preview | West Ashley Newborn Photographer

She's a tiny little piece of perfection. 

Newborn Session Preview

December 2017 - Part 1

I'm making up for my lack of pictures in November with an overload in December. I figured I'd go ahead and share these because we all know I'm going to go crazy photographing Christmas. 

We are one of the only houses in the neighborhood with big trees and who has time to rake those? Our yard was getting pretty embarrassing so I gave Landon a rake and we went to work. I think this was his first oficial time jumping in a pile of leaves. Even the neighbors came out to watch him pay since he was laughing so loud. 

These are actually back from the end of October when I was testing my studio setup for my year-end mini sessions. 

I have so many more to share, but those will come as I get time to weed through them.