Awakened Images Photography

Saturday, May 5, 2018

The Wacky Williams : Dutch Life 2018

We are JUMPING into Tulip Time 2018! Welcome to Holland for the beautiful Tulip Festival and all the fun!

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Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Tulip Time's Almost Here!

Last year, I created this Dutch Series to celebrate my heritage, along with our town's flower festival. We have three blond hair, blue eyed little dutch kiddos, and wanted to have some fun with the old traditions of Tulip Time.

Every image here was created. The children were photographed in the safety of my studio, and the backgrounds were photographed by me the week before the tulip festival. For a few of the images below, I have included the creating process.

All images shot by me with a Nikon D3s and 24-70mm f2.8

Balancing

Checkers

Flour Baggers

My studio was a MESS! Flour is tough to clean up.

Stroll through the Tulip Fields

How funny is this!? They really were NOT on the horse. I didn't know how my old horse would do with wooden shoes bopping him and flashes going off, so we recreated the pose the hard way. After I photographed them, I found I liked the composition of the image in reverse. I flipped the images to be heading left in the final image.

The first Tulip

Musical Beggars

Story Time

( I couldn't find the actual image of them reading with Aunt Kelly, but this is how it was set up in my studio, and then placed (via Photoshop) onto the Windmill stairs.)

Street Scrubbers

He consented to us throwing real water at his face.... I told him I'd try to photoshop it, but he wanted it real :)

Wooden Shoe Shopping

Dutch Bakkerij

(yeah, it's actually starbucks muffins, because the Dutch Bakkerij didn't have the set up with a display of goodies I had in mind)

Check back for the Dutch series 2018 to hit the blog during Tulip Time 2018!

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Wacky Williams : Portal to a warmer climate

Almost every winter, the darkness sets in.... motivation is low, inspiration dies, and I long to hang on to my hope for the spring and summer. I had no intentions to create this image, but found a photo of me from our Christmas card session, and a winter image from a trail walk, and a shot from my photo workshop in Hawaii in 2017, and put this together.... It's my winter paradise :)

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Wacky Williams : Dream Boy

Lex turned 8 in March and we made this image of him.... He's my Dream boy :) This child has all the best qualities from both David and myself.

He's kind, gentle, compassionate, forgiving, pure, loving, righteous, hardworking, creative, selfless, smart, and a natural peacekeeper. He has such a mature understanding of his heavenly father, and loves Jesus. I wish I could be more like him. He's going to make some woman the BEST husband ever someday. (you're welcome future daughter-in-law)

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Wacky Williams : Nikon Series - Image 8

I wanted to have some fun with another series, and started to think through all the things I'm passionate about.... well, photography was one of 3 at the top of my list, so I started brainstorming how I could make a series about photography..... tough one!

Well, after not really coming up with anything, I started to break my photography passion down, to subjects, technique and gear.... I always photograph subjects, because that's photography mainly.... and technique would be used through out the process and hard to display, but I landed on gear, and started getting crazy images pop into my mind about using my kiddos, shrunk down and having fun among my gear.

I've been a Nikon user since 2006, and have acquired a grand amount of amazing gear.... so as images popped into my head, I quickly drew them out and found ways of using the Nikon gear as part of the main subject of the image.... after coming up with 7-10 ideas, we set up a shoot in my studio to start.... I used the basic 3 light set up, so I had options in case I didn't know exactly how I planned to make each image. (which is usually the case)

My kids rocked it, and for a piece of candy each, we had 9 images shot and done.

Then comes the photoshop. I wish I could say every composite works as I see it in my mind, but that's kinda what's cool about composites.... they don't! But, most cases, I find BETTER ways, and it looks way cooler than my mind saw it!!!! Now, I've had several complete fails... some where I can't salvage any part, and I lose motivation on the idea, and scrap it altogether.

This is the last image in this series, and I hope you enjoyed them!

Maybe I can talk Nikon into starting a movement of Photography of their gear as advertising and win upgrades of their gear! .... LOL! But seriously, how cool would that be....? These D3s cameras have been well used... both as gear and props! lol :)

Enjoy My Nikon Series!

Image 8 - Fine Table for Two