Day 78

Day 78

I missed yesterday because I was working on my business plan until almost midnight. I was exhausted and had no creativity left.

So here is todays

7 Deadly Sin

ENVY

This was a hard one to capture. but I'm pretty happy with it. 

Day 77

Today is day 77

Today's deadly sin is

PRIDE

I couldn't come up with something creative for this shot and it was getting me really frustrated. I tried a bunch of different poses and then my husband handed me this glass to use. I really like how it turned out. I love the shadow on my chin and cheek. 

Hubby wanted to get in on the action today too ;) So here is a little bonus treat for you.

I love him and his sense of humor. It doesn't hurt that he's smokin hot either ;)

Day 76

Day 76

Today's deadly sin is 

GLUTTONY

I do not love this picture lol. I do not love any picture with food in my mouth. But that's ok... its for the good of the project :)

Day 75

Day 75

Today's 7 deadly sin is

LUST

I'm happy with this picture. It isn't my favorite and it definitely was a difficult one. Trying to be "lustful" in  a picture without giggling is harder than you think. 

Day 74

Day 74

Today's Deadly Sin was

SLOTH

I will admit, I do not love this picture but then again sloth isn't a beautiful thing anyway.
:)

Day 73

Day 73

WRATH

I really am loving this challenge. This was took some time to tweak the lighting to what I wanted but I got it!

The additional benefit of doing this challenge - besides getting comfortable in front of the camera - is I'm learning how to control the light. 

You can't tell in this picture but I really am having so much fun!

Day 72

Today is day 72.

I missed day 71.

Today is the beginning of a new theme. This week's theme (yea I know it's Wednesday but because I didn't come up with this idea until Monday and yesterday I just couldn't do it, the week starts today) is:

7 deadly sins.

Today is 

GREED

Day 70

Today is day 70

I didn't really have a plan for today's picture. But I grabbed this blue scarf (that I LOVE) and put it on. I really like how it turned out. It reminds me of day 9 but I think it has a totally different feel to it.

Something that I found funny:
Some days I end up putting on more makeup at the end of the day when I'm getting ready to do these self portraits than I do all day long. lol

Day 69

Day 69

This picture I'm just going to call headache because I have one. I think it fits the picture well. 

Day 68

Day 68

This is called dedication. I didn't realize how dedicated I was to this project. Until now.

I have had a super long day. I am exhausted. I photographed an event today and was on my feet all day. (Which btw I had a blast at. I really do love my job!)

I went to go to bed early (yes 10:30 is an early bedtime for me. Bad I know) I was talking to my hubby and realized that I hadn't taken my picture yet. I was already in bed. I didn't want to get back up. I knew that meant getting everything out. My camera, my tripod, my light stand, my flash etc. I knew that meant I wasn't going to bed until after 11 and believe me my bed sounded GOOD!! It was calling my name but I also knew I couldn't go to bed without doing my picture. I contemplated doing the picture but then waiting to edit it and post it until tomorrow. But even that doesn't completely fill my challenge. So I got up, set everything up and did it. I took 30 pictures. Then I went through and sorted them, deleted 29 and edited this one.

I actually really like it. 

To me it says - dedication and commitment. 

Now I am going to bed.

Day 67

Day 67

Today's was harder than most of the other recent ones. I tried so many different ideas and none of them worked.  I like this one but it took a lot more effort than others. 

Day 66

Day 66

I'm still going with the black and white theme. I love the negative space in this picture and the sharp lines. 

It sort of feels like yin and yang to me. 

Day 65

DAY 65!!!

There are times that I absolutely love it when I start off with an idea in mind and the end result is COMPLETELY different that the original idea. I had an idea in mind that looked nothing like this. In fact my face wasn't covered at all. But I just wasn't feeling the picture so I took a second to think up how to make it better. Still nothing. So I decided to go a completely different way. 

I love the end result. 

Day 64

Day 64
I'm sticking with the black and white theme for this week. 

Day 63

Today is day 63 and it is 12:24am (so technically it is day 64 but don't tell anyone) 

I was going to just snap a quick picture and call it good but I decided to put at least a little effort into it :) 

I'm really loving the black and white theme. I think I may stick with variations of black and white all week. 

Day 62

Day 62

I love this one. I love the darkness yet calm peaceful feeling to it. I love the contrast between the dark and light. I love the sharp lines.
I think this is one of my favorites. Although I know it won't be everyone's and that's ok :)

Day 61

Day 61

I am super tired today and didn't put any effort into this picture at all. I apologize.

This is me after a long day of being a second shooter at a wedding. I'm so tired.

Day 60

Today is Day 60!!!
Only 305 days to go.I really am loving this challenge. It is pushing me to be more creative. To get up and take pictures every day. Its helping me to learn more about flash and posing and how to set up pictures.
It's also helping me to gain more self confidence and to put more effort into loving me.
I'm so glad I decided to give myself this challenge. I can't wait to see how much I grow and change in the next 305 days. 

Day 59

Day 59

I was going to practice flash outside but it was right in the middle of the area that my kids were playing.  I decided that having a lightstand with the flash plus a tripod with the camera set up in the middle of the "bike track" was a bad idea. I felt I could keep track of the tripod with the camera safely enough so I still did the picture outside.
I'm happy with the way it turned out. 

Day 58

Day 58

I'm trying very hard to make sure each day is different. I'm still in a creative funk but trying to work through it. I figure it can't stick around forever lol. 

Day 57

Day 57

I didn't have any ideas for today's picture. I don't want to say I half-assed it but I kinda did. This picture was taken today and edited today but I put no real thought or effort into it. I wanted to make sure I got my picture done though. 

I need to come up with some more ideas so I don't do this again. 

Day 56

Today is day 56. It was weird, today the flash gave me a massive headache. Every time the flash would go off my head would throb. I think it's the onset of a migraine. Ugh

But I got the picture done anyway! 

Day 55

Yep I missed another day. I had a photo shoot yesterday so I was super busy with that. It was tons of fun! 

I tried doing a different self portrait today and didn't like the way it turned out so I redid it and still hated it. Then I decided to just try something different.

Day 53

Day 53
I've seen this done before and I've always wanted to do it. I contemplating putting all the words I could think of to describe myself but I decided to not write anything negative. I don't want to think negatively about myself. I want to focus on the positive.

Day 52

Day 52

This is to remind me that under all the dirt and grime that life has thrown at me, I'm still a beautiful person.

Day 51

Day 51

This was not how I originally envisioned this to turn out but sometimes those are the best ones. I had planned to do more of a pop art look but I was unable to accomplish this in photo shop. The tutorial I found was lacking to say the least. So I scrapped that idea for now (I will return to it in the future and I'm super excited about it too) 

I decided to go for more of a drawn look. I think the effect looks pretty interesting. 

Very Serendipitous if I do say so myself :)