Friday, March 6, 2009

My first engagement photo "shoot"

Well, somehow, I got strangers to trust me with their engagement pictures! We took them (for free, since I'm not really sure what I'm doing! shhhh! don't tell them!) at the campus of Springhill College, which is gorgeous! I was, obviously, a little nervous about everything, but my muses were great and knew just what to do, even when I didn't!

There was a small crisis afterwards, however. Back at home, I was trying to upload the pictures from my camera to the computer and it was NOT working. In my preparation for this photo shoot, I read on the Internet that professional photographers shoot important events in RAW format, which (as I learned) is a type of compression. It saves the fine details of each image. So, of course I thought I needed to shoot in this RAW thing. WELL. Big Mistake. My computer doesn't read RAW files. I almost went into a seizure when I realized this, but Caleb saved the day and googled "RAW file conversion to JPEG" and he somehow got them all transferred over to JPEG which my computer reads.

So the lesson here is don't think you are a Big Timer when you are NOT. And always shoot in JPEG.

If you want to see more evidence that I did in fact take these pics, click here.
Feel free to leave a comment in case a potential client could be persuaded, haha.

3 comments:

Katie said...

thank goodness for google...also, i posted a comment on the betty donne blog. for real, they are awesome!

Laura @ our messy messy life. said...

I think the pictures are beautiful. For Christmas/birthday/anniversay/easter, I bought myself a D40 and love it! But, I am stil shooting in only AUTO mode.....

However, I am going to pass your blog along to my sister in law in Mobile. They have 3 kids and i know they haven't had pictures taken in forever. Laura

Anna Little said...

They're great Tricia!! You're so talented.