Our Wedding Seed Card Favors!

© Melissa Berg

Blooms are finally starting to make themselves known! We gave out plantable seed card favors at our wedding and planted a bunch leftover in a pot. This shows a sampling of my love for macro photography although this time I didn't use the little "flower" icon on my camera...lol. I'm loving being able to control the amount of light using aperture size and shutter speed. So pretty! and the perfect color too! ;)

I can see your halo!

Having fun with a little light. Light that is FREE I might add. I was able to catch Colby in a few poses but that little monster won't stay still for an instant. I put my finger over the bottom of my flash to try and get a little light in front since the sun was right behind him. Still working on that. ;)

What A Ham.

I have new shots of Colby I will hopefully upload tomorrow but I just can't get enough of what a good little model Cooper is. Playing around with shutter speeds yesterday, I realized that Colby requires a much faster one. He just can't sit still for the life of him!!! I did manage to get some goodies of him though.

Still reading and playing around with RAW image formats. Found the disks that came with my camera and uploaded software that handles RAW images. I am currently shooting RAW+JPG just to get some working material (but still have the JPG's since I know what to do with those!!).

I have a shoot scheduled for Sunday with a friend and her nephew so hopefully the weather will hold out!! I hope to break out some of my old photography work from like 10 years ago using film...I just have to scan them in. Should be interesting to recap on those fundamentals and assignments I had back in high school.

Oldies, but goodies

Here are some pet photos from the past!




haha...I love catching them in awkward moments.

The Many Faces of Cooper

If you know me, you know I love to photograph my pets. They are my biggest guinea pigs when testing out something new I've learned. Meet Cooper, our adorable yet finicky 3 year old tabby who we adopted at just 6 months old (he's a youtube star as well..lol). Cooper is by far the top model of the house because he stays still long enough and moves just enough to give you a different angle or "look". It's hysterical but I think he's been watching too much Tyra with me.

This first photograph really intrigues me. It was one of my first shots (and dark because I had just gotten done taking photos outdoors). It was just a test shot but holy cow!!




Wow!! What a difference from uploading to flickr.com vs. photobucket.com!!
I really love close up shots that show a lot of detail (macrophotography?!?). This is Coopers' "get out of my face" look, but really I was just zoomed all the way in, but from the look on his face, he knew it!

There will be many more posts about photos of the babes (we have two of them!). Colby doesn't sit very well...only when he's napping, so I'll have to catch him soon.

Alana {Portraits}

So I have always wanted to do my very own photography session and finally today I had the pleasure of shooting portraits for my close friend Alana at Bond Park in Cary, NC. We had so much fun and that's evident in the pictures that I captured. I asked Alana to bring a few of her favorite things and she picked her ipod and one of her favorite books. They proved to be great props and for my first shoot ever, I am really happy with how they turned out.

Here are some of my faves:







Too bad it started pouring about an hour into the session. There was lots more I had planned for Alana but we'll have to save that for another day. We are planning another session with her dogs and her adorable nephew in the near future, which I am SUPER excited about!

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Evolve With You. That is the essence of Melissa Berg Photography. With couples, children and their families, life's moments are so precious and beg to be permanently captured in a photograph. From newborns, to toddlers, to their first day of school...kids are ever changing. From the engagement, to the rehearsal dinner to the "I do" and beyond, relationships are ever evolving. Let Melissa Berg Photography capture all of those moments and evolve with you.