My first photo shoot

It has taken me quite some time to grasp all that photography entails. A heck of a lot longer than I thought, at least. While each lesson on it's own makes perfect sense, it's when you actually take a subject out for a day and do your own photo shoot that things are forgotten and steps are skipped. I had some overexposed shots and some out-of-focus shots. But, I must say, I am fairly proud of the way some of these photos turned out. 

I nanny an 11-year-old after school and I forced her to be the subject of my first photo shoot. She had quite the model behavior once we got started, though. These are my favorites from our little photo sesh!