Mother & Child: a self-portrait

I have very few good pictures of Wynn and I together.  I am sure that all the mamas reading this can relate.  I have LOTS of great pictures of Wynn with his daddy.  I have lots of great pictures of Wynn on his own. {I am the one after all who invested lots of time in learning to shoot my dslr camera and I am the one who takes the camera along on walks around the neighborhood and day trips and vacations.}  My husband doesn’t know how to use the camera, except to shoot in auto (blah), and if you look back over the pictures we have from the past year, you would hardly know that I was there-hilarious considering that Wynn is never more than 2 feet from my side!

Months ago I read this idea on Pinterest about using a tripod to take self-portraits with your children.  Yesterday I finally pulled out my camera and tripod and captured the picture above.  I am hooked!  I shot the picture on manual, using a 50mm lens, adjusting for exposure before setting the camera timer.  The light must have shifted some in the 10 seconds between setting the timer and the shutter clicking because the straight out of the camera shot was pretty underexposed.  I was able to correct for exposure using curves in Photoshop. 

If you are a mommy in a similar position, I strongly recommend a tripod and the timer function on your camera!  Tripods can be picked up relatively inexpensively.  It is worth the effort to be able to look back and see that, yes, you were there.

And life was beautiful.

“I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full.”  John 10:10