I thought I'd ring in the new year with Kaden's contagious smile!!! He's so loveable and affectionate!
He'll be a year old soon, but he has so much expressions already! Esp that big wide smile! hehe

So here I am posting under the PAD section, not sure if I'll do another year of PAD, because it's
just too tiring, but I don't want to stay away completely for sure!

As I was trying to think of new year resolutions for 2007, I thought for this year I'd work on my
flash photography, which I am completely lacking! All my night shots or anything lacking a good
light source looks pretty bad! So the goal this year is portrait flash photography! We'll see how
much I've learned about flash photography by the end of 2007.

add-on...

For the year 2007, I've decided to have some new resolutions...

1. Learn and improve flash photography, mainly portrait flash photography, the idea here is that
under low light or night photography, most of my images are really unacceptable in terms of
quality. So for the new year I want to be able to take adequate images under low light situations,
using my speedlite and most likely diffuser such as omnibounce to incorporate that with the
ambient light that is already present. The hard part of this is to utilize natrual ambient light
setting along with speedlite to create the perfect lighting!

I realized that without flash, it is almost impossible to take great quality images! But the idea
is to use flash so that people don't know you've used flash because you've preserved the natrual
light setting so well!

This is another factor in the already complicated equation and to master this I'm sure it'll be a
super tough order and it's not something that I can learn in a year! But I plan on reading up on
this and doing lots of experiments with flash.

2. I'd like to compile all my images from my 1st year PAD, basically to print out each and every
picture so I have a hardcopy of it, then find a book or like a portfolio album so I can place all
my images in it! I guess the idea is almost like a coffee book that's not cheapely made! I
understand that all my images are digital, and that's ok, but there's a certain feel to the
traditional images on print that's just so much more! And I'd like to create that as well!
Obviously the printing up the image is the easy part, the hard part will be to hunt for a book,
and afterward, how to present it in a coffee book way!