My many 1st

Amanda

by: Cristopher Beltran

She was my Uncles wife's co-worker.  No modeling experience, and was kind enough to let me take a picture of her.  I was in my 2nd week with the camera, and for the life of me, do not know what I'm doing, nor even know where the manual switch is on my camera.  Good thing Conrad was there to explain to me why and what these different settings are for.

To this day, this picture, of all my pictures is the most precious picture I took.  There were many firsts here; My first fashion type shoot.  A model that I just met.  Her first fashion type shoot.  We were both overwhelmed on what to do.  I shot mostly on landscape... LOL.  what a newb I am.

Do you see how she is looking at you?  The smile?  How about her posture? I totally screwed up this picture, but Amanda pulled it off to make the shot overall better.  I know its cropped... and cropped wrong. hahahahaha... Seriously, I just learned recently that I should not even be cropping.  That I should be getting the shot properly so I would not need to crop.  Just a warning, most of my shots are cropped still, as I am still learning.  I stopped cropping into boxes at least. 


JBB 1980