More from Click Away 2015: Lensbaby Portraiture with Caroline Jensen

When I discovered Caroline Jensen was offering a Lensbaby Portraiture class, I knew I had to sign up. Caroline Jensen is a fantastic artist and instructor, and I appreciate the work she does using the Lensbaby lenses. Lensbaby lenses allow a photographer to selectively blur parts of an image for artistic effect. The look is very different, and the lenses are manual focus and can be tricky to use, but the effect is gorgeous when done correctly. Here are a few images from the on-location shoot we did at the Alamo.

Highlights from Click Away 2015

This past week, I visited San Antonio, Texas to attend the 2015 Click Away Conference, a photography conference sponsored by Clickin' Moms. The conference was three days of classes, shooting demonstrations, hands-on workshops and field trips around the area to practice what we were learning. I have been looking forward to this conference for months. For years, I've been a part of the online Clickin' Moms community, forming friendships on the forum with women I'd never met in real life. But this past week, I was able to change that: I had the opportunity to meet with and get to know the women behind the avatars, and it was such an amazing experience. During the conference, I was able to take a few courses that involved shooting models. The first of these was with Mae Burke, a photographer in Texas specializing in motherhood photography. I really enjoy Mae's work and it was such a pleasure meeting her and seeing her in action. Toward the end of class, we were separated into groups of 5 and allowed to shoot the model. Although it was crowded (5 women with cameras crowded around a  mom and her baby) I managed to get a couple of shots during my 1-2 minute window.

I really enjoyed photographing this lovely model and her adorable munchkin. I would love to have had more time to work with them, but I was content to listen to Mae explain the ins and outs of breastfeeding and motherhood photography, a niche area of photography that holds great interest for me, as I am interested in eventually shooting birth and breastfeeding photography.

That's all I'll share for today--keep an eye out for additional shares over the next few days (as I catch up on editing--and laundry-- from a week away).