DAY 2
Dior's lovely model is today's inspiration.
All rights reserved Dior. Copyright ELLE magazine, Feb 12 #318
1. I always hold my purse like this.
2. Especially when I'm carrying it near a beautiful lake surrounded by steep rocky mountains.
3. In fact, when I am camping, (which is really the only time I'm near a crystal blue lake and mountains) I usually look like this.
4. And yes, my little black V-neck-type top (sorry for being the opposite of fashion forward) IS my #1 choice when I wake up freezing my buns off with a full bladder in my tent. Which is, again, near the crystal clear blue water, near the beautiful mountains.
5. Let's get serious. Ok... I really only put this top on AFTER eating campfire breakfast eggs and once it has warmed up a little.
DAY 2 and MY version of the picture.
Don't. Be. Jealous. I. AM. SMOKIN. HOT.
What's prettier, me or my purse?
1. My purse choices for this picture were:A. My black 9West purse that is gushing diapers, wipes and I think a day old sippy cup is poking out too.
OR
B. nothing.
That is it city girls! Don't cry for me Argentina....better yet, Don't cry for me my New York friends and L.A. friends... one day I will have lots of dinero to have more than one purse! Until then, I'm fine. I'm happy with my little black n' silver friend. She does the job.
2. This REALLY what I wear when I go camping. I promise. Ask my husband. My comfy OLD black Lakers sweatshirt. I love it and therefore I believe it too carries it's own hidden sexiness. Very hidden. Very, very, very hidden.
3. It was quite uncomfortable to hold the purse like this, especially loaded down with mommy what-nots.
4. Blue backdrop instead of crystal clear blue lake.
LIGHT & Photography stuff: Shot at 70mm 1/200 f/2.8 ISO 200.... I have just found that this is the best combo for today....and then I adjusted my manual speedlight to fire at only 28.
I studied her face & studied her eyes. WHY? I wanna get similar lighting. Her face has a little more light coming from the picture's left side. So she must have a little extra light on that side.
However, by looking at her eyes, I studied the catch lights in her eyes. I can almost SEE what type of lights and contraptions the photographer was using. Really! Look at a beauty ad. Look CLOSE at that little white flash part of her eyes. That is called the catch light. You can sometimes see the exact light source the photographer used. Pretty cool.
Anyway, this one was hard. I think 3 softboxes were used all lined up next to each other with the one on the left being the brighter one.
Well... I don't have 3 softboxes. For this, I turned on the main lights in the room, tilted a few tall lamps (to try to fill in the shadow,) used my trusty speedlight and white-shoot-through umbrella.
I am ITCHING to edit this picture and play with the lighting... but NO editing allowed, as you can see by my fresh morning skin.
MY BUM:
Hey, since ya'll are seeing me in the morning w/out makeup, how's about I just get even more RAW and put up a pic of my rear? oh. yes. i. am.
My daughter snapped this of my rear yesterday as we were getting ready to leave. I was all set to go out n' about. Had my kids, had my purse (my 9West-ie of course), and an extra diaper. I was all set. At least for a few hours.
She thought it was funny that I had a diaper in my back pocket... That's how us moms roll, I told her.
She thought it would be a funny picture b/c of the diaper. I think it is funny for different reasons. I think it's funny that I now have a picture of my rear in our family album. ha ha funny, not HARDY HAR funny.
And now that the picture of my rear has burned a permanent imprint on your brain... I bid you farewell.
Have a lovely day.
Keep smiling, loving and laughing.
~Noelle
You are cracking me up!!!! And because I ive in LA I can tell you everyone wear vnecks but no one holds their purse like this, unless they are pretending to almost get mugged. I love that you did this post!
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