Still absurdly behind in blogging and still not stressing over it. I haven’t even uploaded all the pictures to flickr. Hehe. I’m working on it, though. I realized that I haven’t been taking enough pictures so I had a few little photo sessions with the little Miss M this last week. I like these, so we’ll call them her 8 month old pictures. Yeah, there we go.
Speaking of the whole 8 month thing, I’m constantly torn between not wanting her to grow at all and also being really excited for her to learn and experience the next phase. And I sometimes am really looking forward to having a little more time to myself, but I realize that when that time comes I’ll probably be following HER around wanting to play. And as much as I sometimes think I do want some time alone, in those few rare minutes where I haven’t been right by her I feel a little panicked. And it doesn’t help that after about three minutes where she can’t see me she howls. This, I am sure, I will also miss when she grows out of it. It’s a constant dichotomy, you see.
Please ignore the fact that a good majority of the pictures I take are in this same spot. We have limited sources for natural light that also make decent photo backdrops around these parts.
A little blurry, but this face is the total Morgan face to me. She’s diving forward a little, which she does a lot. She is curious about everything. And often just looks happy.
I really like this picture. However, she was constantly moving and I was using the manual settings and it’s overexposed on the face. And I think her dear pale skin reflected even more light. (Gee, I can’t imagine where she would have inherited such skin…) I tried to fix it a little but it was hard to do without darkening the background way too much. So I decided to not do any more to it because at my skill level I was likely to just ruin it. Any tips?
The teeth! The teeth! I have tried to no avail to get a good picture of them before more grow in. So I was excited to have a picture where you can actually see them, no matter how shadowed. Hehe.
And this, I think, may be my favorite of all. Hard to choose. Of course I’m quite biased, but I think she’s darling. 
These look SOOOO good! I love them. And most of my pics of Ella in our home are in the same spot too… it’s nice having a neutral sofa, isn’t it! At least you have enough light that you can get some great ones!
And with the overexposed pic, it actually doesn’t bother me much (from a critical standpoint) because her eyes are the focus… if you shot in JPEG there’s nothing you can do, if you shot RAW you may be able to recover some of the blown bits, but probably not. So don’t stress. I love that last one too! Well done.
Giorgio and I just got finished ooohing and aaahing over our little princess. I LOVE the lighting. It’s like a chiaro/scurro (dark/light) painting of the “masters”. Good job Emily.