lisaholloway

Pure Love

Canon EOS 5D Mark III

settings

Aperture f/2.8 ISO 800 Shutter 1/400

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Nov, 2014

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Awards

Top Shot Award 21

Contest Finalist in Inspiring Shots Photo Contest

Winner in Tender Moments Photo Challenge

Winner in "Featured" by ViewBug Photo Challenge

Contest Finalist in Monthly Pro Vol 8 Photo Contest

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Creative Live Classes and Exposure

Contest Finalist in Capturing Connection Photo Contest

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Magnificent Capture

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Genius

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beautiful image.

Love it!

Beautifull!

So Beautiful

Beautiful lighting and beautiful capture :)

Excellent, Great Photo ..Superb. Congratulations !!!

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Wow lovely lighting, lovely contact, a real masterpiece. :)

Gorgeous capture!

Fabulous image. Congratulations on being the Winner.

Love it. congratulations

Great composition and wonderful control of lighting. The theme "Pure Love" of which mother and son are so perfectly captured.

well captured image, congrats on your win

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this is jus brilliant

My previous comment refers. Congratulations on being Featured.

This is Beautiful :)

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Magnifique ;)

Great picture. Congratulations for the feature

Magical. Congrats on being featured.

love this, it speaks volumes, great job!!!!!

Very nice, congrats on your feature!

Beautiful work! Congratulations on your feature :D

This made my day

Beautiful color palette and composition. Congratulations on your Feature!

just wawoooo.,.v nice tunes

stunning

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beautiful!! congrats

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This is like a beautiful Fairy-tail. Gorgeous capture. Congratulations!!!

Beautiful.Congratulation on Feature.

So ethereal! Congrats!

Stunning capture, congrats on the feature.

Beautiful... Loved the Pic

This is impossibly gorgeous. Wonderful creation.

That's a wow!!!

Premium

You captured such an intimate moment and it turned out beautifully. I love the rays of sunshine and how the background is blurred and your subjects are in focus just perfectly. Great shot! Congratulations!

A sweet shot...beautifully done. Congrats

Stunning... Congrats! ")

excellent work
well done

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What a beautiful photo. :)

beautiful. Love it.

Nice capture. Still got your natural talent. Great shot

This is one of my fav to date. Totally beautiful

PRO

A sweet capture of a tender moment. Love the colours and the mood.

you made me tear up in this one! Nicely done!

Platinum

Precious Moment. Well capture. Love the lighting.

Sweet motherly love

Magical! What a beautiful image :)

Beautiful photo, I love the celestial and dreamy mood.

Beautiful image!

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Superb! Congratulations!

This is so beautiful! You have captured the love and life in such a stunning way.

What a beautiful photo.

Perfect image

Beautifully captured

well done

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Magical!!! Congratulations on your well-deserved awards.:)

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Love the light.

This is an all around stunning picture! The lighting is absolutely perfect and the colors add a certain glow that just makes it mesmerizing. Fantastic job on this! I love it! The title certainly fits!

Loverly!!! Enchanting.

Precious

Beautiful - really beautiful

GREAT!!!!

Gorgeous shot! Love your work!

Awesome... love the colors and composition! Nice job!

Beautiful

what a gorgeous images

Stunning shot!

Powerful message is being sent with this photo...congratulations!

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great image

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Awesome image. Love it!

Bliss and blessed!
Love of eternity.

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Amazing

Lovely image...nicely done! If you haven't done so already, please consider joining my Random Acts challenge:)
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Quest'immagine è davvero dolce! Bellissima!

Oh wow, how breathtaking!

Cute!

Incredible my friend!!!!

Beautiful!

Amazing Portrait!

Stunning and heartwarming

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oh, I love this.

simply awesome

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beautiful

Awesome photo

mommy and daughter

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Thank you so much for viewing my images! You can see more of my work or purchase editing tutorials at www.ljhollowayphotography.com.

My beautiful daughters. <3

To see more of my work, please visit my website at www.ljhollowayphotography.com.

I had so much fun doing my own daughter's senior pictures! I cannot believe she's all grown up. I am so proud of her!

To see more of my wor

Please meet Luna, the newest member of our family. We love her so much! She is a Siberian, and just came home with us about a week ago. (Don't worry,

A lone evergreen stands guard at the entrance of a grove of aspen cloaked in autumn gold.

Sylvie made an unexpected new friend while we were out shooting tonight. I mean really...how sweet is this??! <3

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Behind The Lens

Location

I took this photo in a dry wash (code name for dry creek bed) near Valentine, Arizona. Both sides of this wash were lined with huge cottonwood trees.

Time

This image was taken during the golden hour just as the sun was going down. The light was being filtered through the cottonwood trees as it set for a nice, soft, back lit look.

Lighting

This image, like 99.9% of my other work was shot using ambient, available lighting. No reflectors or strobes were used in the making of this image. The back lighting was created as the setting sun filtered through the cottonwood trees and onto my subjects.

Equipment

I used my Canon 5D Mark III and 200mm F-2.0L to capture this image.

Inspiration

As the mother of 10 children, I have always enjoyed capturing images of children, and even more so, the loving bonds between a mother and her child. Mary (the mother in this photo) is a beautiful young mom that I have been photographing for a few years now. I did her high school senior pictures, maternity pictures, newborn pictures, along with a few creative shoots in between. The weather was beautiful this day and the fall colors were in full bloom at this location (one of my very favorites) so I shot her a message and asked if she was up for a few pictures with her baby boy. :)

Editing

I do all of my basic RAW edits in Lightroom 5 - exposure adjustments, color, white balance, noise removal, and sometimes I'll even do a few brush adjustments to selectively fix color casts or add a subtle vignette. All of my color popping/modifying and contrast comes in Photoshop CS6 through the use of several different adjustment layers (levels, curves, selective color, etc).

In my camera bag

I carry a LOT of stuff with me - more than what will fit in just one bag. I never use it all but it always seems to happen that the ONE lens I want while I'm out shooting is the one I left at home - so now I just bring it all! That would include my 5D Mark III and 5D Mark II as a backup body, 200L, 70-200L II, 100 Macro, 90 TS, 85L, 50L and Sigma 50 Art lens, and my 16-35L II. I am primarily a natural light shooter but also always carry my 580EX II, white reflector, umbrella, and PWII transcievers with me, just in case.

Feedback

First and foremost - before any thought to equipment or location, you HAVE to have a good repertoire with your clients. Without that, there will be no real impact with your images. Always make sure that your subjects are comfortable in front of your camera. Next and equally important, you HAVE to have good lighting. I love using soft, filtered back lighting as it gently separates my subject(s) from the back ground. To avoid haze and sun flare, make sure that the light is low in the sky and being filtered through something (cottonwood trees in this case), OR make sure the light is coming in at a slight angle and not directly into your lens. For even better background separation, shot with a long lens and make sure there is a good amount of distance between your subject and the background. Both of these elements play into your depth of field. This image was also shot wide open at F-2.0 which enhanced the bokeh even more. Watch your details! Make sure everything is in place before clicking the shutter - hair, clothing, framing elements in the background, etc. Then, sit back and wait - be patient and provide gentle guidance to your subject/client to bring out what you are hoping to achieve in your photograph. In this image, I simply asked Mary to interact with her baby. With patience and a few solid preparations in setting up your shot, magic will happen!

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