Lynne Hart Photography

Lightroom Lessons Learned!

2009-07-24T07:26:00.004-05:00

Super-excited about what I learned to do in Lightroom class! New presentation for my photos from the family Cuba trip! You'll have to click the link and see a 3 slide slideshow so that they'll be big enough to see a little!

Follow this link: http://lynnehart.zenfolio.com/p893192484/h121f87b2/slideshow

Let me know what you think! It was so easy I'm giddy!

El Caribe Tropical & Grace Hill in Old North St. Louis

2009-07-18T15:16:00.010-05:00

Thanks to Susan Werremeyer, I had the opportunity to attend and shoot a Whittaker Festival in Old North St. Louis for Grace Hill. Not only did they have El Caribe Tropical playing for a couple of hours in the park, there were all kinds of family activities, food vendors, even a fountain for the kids to play in and a fire juggler. (That was harder to get a good picture of than one would imagine) Here are some of my favorites from the night.

Training Anyone?

2009-06-30T21:22:00.000-05:00

A photographer in Chicago that I recently started following mentioned this training session in his blog. I'm considering going and wondering if any of the local photographers, or aspiring photographers would be interested in going? Its cheap $99, plus the heck of a drive up there and back, but I am considering. Can't find anything like this here......

Matt Kloskowski is coming to Chicago for his Lightrooom 2 Live tour. This is a great opportunity to brush up on your Lightroom skills!

The kiddos in Cuba!

2009-06-20T08:25:00.004-05:00

I am blessed with an incredibly photogenic set of future in-laws, especially the kiddos. Those shots can be found here along with a few other past shots of others.

More Maternity

2009-06-19T17:11:00.003-05:00

It never hurts to have exceptionally gorgeous friends who are comfortable in front of a camera. Below are a couple of shots from boudoir inspired maternity sessions with my one of mine....

A more complete slideshow can be viewed by clicking here

Cuba

2009-06-19T15:53:00.015-05:00

Recently returning from a family visit, I had a great opportunity to get some shots of Cuba. Here are a few, or click the title "cuba" above for a full slideshow. This was like some sort of photographic overload, as I shot so much and so frequently that I needed nearly a 6 week break to get around to posting these! Let me know what you think - Love and Hate letters both accepted.
Photos are from Guiness, Guanabo, and Habana Vieja, Cuba, also included are some family shots.

My future son-in-law and step-grandaughter.....

And some random tween on the beach.....

Coming Soon: More Boudoir

2009-04-06T21:01:00.002-05:00

Stay posted folks! I have more sexy stuff coming up for you. On May 30th, a bunch of my girlfriends have agreed to do a Boudoir party, all just so that I can play and practice. They get pics, I hopefully get to use quite a few of them, everyone is happy and, er, a little wine tipsy.

Alma's shoot last week has me totally excited! This is an aspect of photography that I really expect to enjoy a ton!

Boudoir Maternity

2009-04-05T18:38:00.004-05:00

Today I had my second maternity photo shoot. This one was a bit different than my last, with a bit more focus on boudoir flavor. Those shots, you are just not lucky enough to see! Here are a few of the public appropriate shots! You can see more (but still not all:) of this shoot on the zenfolio site if interested.

Special thanks to my extra hot friend Alma for letting me use some of the photos. She has a great idea how to work a camera and made my job as easy as it possibly could be! Thanks Alma!

Week 4 Workshop Assignments

2009-03-26T07:38:00.005-05:00

I'll be honest kids, there was some slackin' going on with the homework this week. Alex was sworn in as a citizen, so we had a house full o party. Seems like a great photo opportunity, but our homework was mostly still life and prepared food. By the time our feast was prepared, I may have been served a PUI (photographing under the influence) for attempting a shoot, so my camera was spared the risk. That said, I'm taking cupcakes to work tomorrow, so here's something to make you bust your diet.

You can find these babies on 39th street in the Shaw neighborhood at SweetArt. Pretty cool place with all kinds of "home" made eats and no ingredients you can't pronounce.

A few more shots from Week 3 Assignment

2009-03-21T07:59:00.003-05:00

A few more shots in the "animals" assignment, and also in the florals. I believe we were actually supposed to find live flowers, but I live in Missouri people! The trees hardly start blooming and the Botanical Gardens has limited hours - so I improvised!

Workshop - Week 3 Assignments

2009-03-17T20:10:00.004-05:00

There was quite a bit of homework for week 3, which hasn't even happened yet! While we were having class in week two, the "random guy" below walked through our group of aspiring photographers and decided to "vogue", no idea why. Thank God I have a trigger finger, because one second later, I think his shirt went all the way up.... anyway, not part of the homework, but fun.

This week's assignment was a little harder to pull off due to variety of requirements. For example, there are requirements for several "vista" shots, specifically not cityscape, but landscape, which meant a roadtrip on Sunday.

An easier part of the assignment was several animal shots, focusing on beauty or humor. Beauty (below, aka Tonta the cat) and Humor (aka Loba the dog) live with me so that was easy enough.

There were also a variety of "architectural" requirements. Not sure some of these shattered barns count as architecture, but they were present during my vista/roadtrip session so I went with it.

Architectural abstracts must have been the most challenging, since I live in the literal, and am challenged by all that is not. I did my best to take photos of stuff on buidlings in a way that one could not tell what the heck it was. How did I do?

Studio Altius Workshop, Week 2 Assignment

2009-03-17T19:42:00.007-05:00

I started a six week Beginners Digital Photography series at the beginning of March. Each week, we have a set of assignments to exercise what we have learned. Here are some of my first week’s shots. Hopefully by week six we’ll see marked improvement! I leave for vacation the very next day and hope to really get some great shots while I’m out of the country!

Week 2 Assignment gave us a variety of requirements to practice various aspects of manual photography. I'm a fan of a low depth of field, which would be the first couple of shots.

Of course, grapes are very close to my heart, they make my favorite thing. Wine.

The pitiful look is due to the peice of chicken on top of my lens, and partially because she isn't allowed to have it until I say "OK". This explains why she gets so excited anytime I touch my camera...

Downtown St. Louis in a place Alex wouldn't let me go alone!

Can you name this guard rail?

Probably only if you read ahead. ;)

Random assignment requiring variety of angles of a single item.
I liked the reflection of this one.

Kelly Manno Workshop

2009-03-02T17:35:00.005-06:00

So this spring, before some travelling I decided to get some education on photography. Lucky me, right after this decision, alot of interesting local things popped up. I was thinking I'd have to spend big bucks and vacation time to travel.

Sunday launched the spring training with a workshop from Kelly Manno. It was great! I'd tell you about it, but I wrote Kelly a letter and she posted it, so you can read it on her site. :)

http://kellymanno.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

During the workshop we got to do a shoot. Most of my pictures turned out horribly as I wasn't so great at not tripping over other photographers and generally to short to run around the back... especially with my 50mm lens! So, here are a few of the best!

Waiting for Baby Beatrice

2009-02-27T11:04:00.007-06:00

Nearly missed the opportunity to shoot my friend Amy and her daughter while she was still pregnant. That darn three week flu overtook me and arrived on the day we were planning to get together. Lucky enough we planned a girls brunch a few days before she arrived, and I was able to spend some time before brunch with Amy and her daughter Camille.

This has probably been my most challenging self-assignment so far. Between Camille, Amy, the cat Euclid, and the family dog, it was a bit of a juggle to get good shots. Definately a skill I need to work on. I was so distracted with that, and trying out a new lens on my camera that I didn't realize until later that I had shot the whole dern thing in auto. So much for practicing my skills!
I've signed up for a 6 week class starting next month, so I'm hoping for clearer sharper more creative shots in the future! Here are some of the better shots from our "waiting for baby Beatrice" session. Perhaps we'll have the opportunity to do a Baby Beatrice shoot soon!

Puerto Rico, yo nunca dejare de amarte!

2009-01-17T10:33:00.001-06:00

A quick follow up from our New Year's trip from Puerto Rico, and a few of the best shots. Still have a ton of editing to do whenever I get the chance. We stayed in a great place right on the beach with only 9 rooms, but spent most of our time in search of deserted beaches. The city was packed with visitors for the new year, so we steered away from the crowds.

We found a bike path along the ocean and wore ourselves out for 3 hours, finding this shot before we turned around.

These next two were in the city near our small hotel in the Condado area of San Juan

We ultimately found 3 or four secluded beaches, no buildings, no people. this was the first, midpoint in the sweaty windy bike ride. We washed down the ride with a bottle of water and kept going to the end of the trail, only to return for a sunset dinner and extremely cold beer! Experimenting with self portraits, very interesting.....especially with no remote!

McClellan Morley sneak peak

2008-12-28T18:57:00.000-06:00

A good friend from way back, Carol MClellan (now Morley) is just about to move to Oz (Austrailia that is). She'll finally get to live in the same country as her new husband! Before she leaves, Carol wanted to collect some photos to keep with her when she's missing her family. The group was interested in some casual photos over lunch at Mi Ranchito in U City. Here is a sneak peak, McClellan-Morley family! Carol, I should have the final versions in mid January. Happy Holidays and buen viaje!

Engagement Photos: Heather and Dave

2008-12-19T10:49:00.000-06:00

My friends Heather and Dave are engaged, so we all spent and afternoon at the City Museum working on some photos for them. Honestly, they made my job really easy as their stated photo anxiety channeled itself into spontaneous silliness - which made for some very fun shots. City Museum as well provided tons of variety and interesting props.

Heather, a graphic artist, took my raw files and did her own re-touching to get the exactly look she wanted. Wow, have I learned alot about where my skills in Photoshop need to grow! Here are some samples of our day below. The rest can be found here http://lynnehart.zenfolio.com/p435228734

New Family Addition!

2008-12-11T06:46:00.001-06:00

The holidays, and a new addition to our family have had me a little distracted, but I'm back on the saddle. Meet Tonta, and if you speak spanish, yes, the name suits her well. Most unusual cat.

Tonta is also the best toy we have ever gifted to loba. This shot, as loving as it may look, was a little more like the standoff before a shootdown.

Here's where all day play sessions pay off for humans. I call this one 'wolves in sheeps clothing'.

More updates soon. Plenty of upcoming holiday festivities that I should be shooting, as well, a trip to Puerto Rico over New Years which should make great background for some couples self portrait work for Alex and I.

Engagements galore!

2008-10-26T09:42:00.000-05:00

Seems like just about everyone is planning a wedding or expecting a baby these days, leaving lots of practice time for me. My friends Heather and Dave recently got engaged and wanted to do something fun and funky, they chose the city museum. We all had a lot of fun and ended up spending about 3 hours there on Sunday afternoon!

GrangerHome Photo Shoot

2008-10-26T09:13:00.000-05:00

One of the coolest opportunities I've had recently is a model photo shoot for GrangerHome. GrangerHome is the studio of Christopher Granger who specializes in unique high-end hand wovens. The set up the lighting in a great construction space, wrangled models, makeup artists, and hair stylists and we went to town!

Our models were friends and volunteers as well as naturals! They did a fantastic job. Of course it was easy to make these scarves look great. I spent most of my time with Paula (first below) and Lauren. Here are a few of the shots that I still had on my memory card when I left!

Please leave me alone!!!

2008-09-27T08:56:00.000-05:00

My very wonderful boyfriend, Alex, "volunteered" to be my model a couple of times. I think at this point I've worn out my welcome between dragging him through the Landing one evening .....

and making him put on a suit at the crack of dawn......

But, it was great practice for me, AND I got some great shots for my desk at work! Thank you my love!

July Barbeque and Pooltime

2008-07-27T08:25:00.000-05:00

Still practicing with that camera, I took it several places over the summer, one of which was a family barbeque. I'm so lucky to have such good lookin' girls and guys in my family! They played in the pool all day and I played around with the camera!

¡Ay Chihuahua!

2008-06-16T07:55:00.000-05:00

June 2008 - First trip out with the camera, Loba had a great time romping around without her leash in Tower Grove ParkShe wasn't particularly fond of the daisies, nor the sun in her eyes, but didn't mind holding still for a few shots.
I'm not sure why but she always has her tongue out, so this one was not hard to catch at all.
Of course, after an hour or so, she started to get an attitude........aren't you done yet?

And it finally became clear that she was ready to go back home! We'll take her out another day in the future.