Homecoming Session

My daughter and I spent the afternoon out the day of her homecoming dance.  She has become one of the most beautiful young ladies I know...I am so very proud of her.  After our shoot, we had lunch at Dr. Jazz in Lebanon.  The owner was nice enough to offer letting us take a picture of her at the soda fountain counter. 

Sun Stars and Lens Flares

When John had the idea to shoot the Arch with the sun behind it, I was reminded of something I had read about creating sun stars in photography.  This can be done with any kind of lights...tree lights, street lights, sun, stars.  In manual mode, set your aperture really high like f18-f22, then adjust your other settings for correct exposure.  Here are a few I created this weekend. 

My aperture wasn't high enough to create the sun star in this first one, but I got a lens flare, which still gave it a nice effect.

This, although looks like a night shot, was taken late morning.