Fall Family Pictures

Well, I had made the decision that I wanted to take our own family pictures because A.) I couldn't stand to go to Portrait Innovations again.  B.) Most of the photographers around were simply awful and I'd never waste our time or money on them.  C.) Any good photographers around were quite bit pricey for what we could spend right now.

So self-portraiture it was!

I got all of our outfits together (rustic-fall-chic is what I was going for) and we headed to the in-laws to use their beautiful land as our backdrop.  The weather was great, though a bit warm and humid for our perfectly selected rustic-fall-chic outfits :/

Ron and Billie drove us around in the golf cart until I found some good places to try and shoot.  There were about 8,000 mosquito nests in the fields, so we all have some lovely red bites as our photoshoot souvenir.  I didn't try to take many candids or singles of just Gabi because the bugs were so awful....we got in and out quick as we could.... 

I thought I might be able to get away with Nick sitting where we were going to be, me metering off his skin and focusing on him, him not moving a millimeter and the sun not moving in or out from any clouds, me grabbing the kid and sitting next to Nick, and us all smiling simultaneously as the shutter released.  Didn't happen.

Then we had Gabs sitting on the golf cart playing with her bear, staring at me while I get the camera ready, and her unenthusiastically saying "no pi-pehs...no pi-pehs" and shaking her head.  Ahhh!!!
Billie ended up helping and pressing the shutter for us.  We got a few pictures, which is all we really need I guess.  The exposure, focus, and composition definitely isn't ideal but it is something.  And it's better than Portrait Innovations at least.  I think.