We are Family

My mom says I'm too hard on myself when it comes to my pictures.  I like them, but I want to LOVE them.  I'm good at taking pictures, I want to be great.  I know how to take pictures, I want to know more!  I can't get enough which is why I'm taking a class :)  Which I can't wait for!!!  

My family has done the classic Christmas card pictures in front of the tree pretty every year since my older sister was born.  A few years we have done something different but mostly the only thing that changes is we have more ornaments on the tree, and we are all older!  Also, many years my parents haven't been in them because of the busyness of the season.  So this year we decided to try and get them done early!  And since I've been taking pictures, I decided to try it with my awesome remote shutter!  

I was a little stressed because we didn't have much time so I was focused on getting as many pictures I could in the time we had, but I wish now I would have focused more on my camera settings and poses.  But it was a great experience for me!  I would have enjoyed it more had I not had to be in the pictures so I could focus on taking them, but it was fun.  

So I don't really like to many of these pictures, but I know my grandparents will love them :)  

This is for sure the best picture I got!  Everyone looks great and the lighting is good!

This was a favorite of mine, except it was too dark!  This was one of the last pictures we took so the sun had gone down, and it just wasn't bright enough for me so I cranked my ISO up to 1600 which made it really to grainy and just yucky.  But from far away, and in black and white, it's not bad!

This one is a weird angle, I don't know what I was thinking!  I don't like the angle but everyone looks good!

This one would have been better but I don't like that Jake got lost awkwardly stuck between the parents.  And had the left side looked happier it would have been better ;) 

I really like this one!  It was a little dark at this point, but I just loved the green wall and biker guy!  Also, we thought it was funny that Jake had bubble's coming out of his head :) 

So there ya go!  Family pictures 2012!!!  I'm excited to get more practice taking family pictures in the future and learn as much as I can!  Individual shots to come!