A few months ago I made the dive and upgraded to a Canon T2i. I convinced my husband that I’d make all the money back we spent on the camera by doing product photography. So far I’ve only had one paying  gig shooting some delicious food for a mexican restaurant but haven’t really had time since to put my services out there in the world to get more gigs. So the good news is I have a really awesome camera and an adorable little girl to use as a subject. Today I decided to take advantage of the beautiful oasis of wild daisies that’s growing by this company called The Dirt Yard, who happens to sell, well….Dirt!   I had my mom act as the baby wrangler/ lighting reflector grip which was a hard feat since the wind was blowing my 5′ reflector like a para-sail. We happened upon this patch of dirt and an old whiskey bottle was there which I thought was kind of rustic and fitting for the scene. Though in retrospect it probably wasn’t too appropriate of a prop to use with a 19 month old. Overall I think they turned out good. I didn’t have time to edit them so you can see shadowing and some we couldn’t keep her still enough to use the reflector. But I do think I got some decent poses out of this sleepy, but mostly cooperative baby. (click photo to see larger)