wintry portraits
February 9, 2010 | Filed Under portraits | 22 Comments
i had an unexpected chance to meet these three lovely sisters today in gaithersburg, in the kentlands area, and take their pictures on the one day of gorgeous sunlight, just-above-freezing weather, and just-barely-passable road conditions that could have made a portrait session possible. yesterday, no roads, tomorrow, more snow – but today? beautiful! thanks so much for contacting me, ladies; it was my pleasure to work with you, and hopefully you’ll get to see the rest of the shoot very soon!
happy new year!
January 1, 2010 | Filed Under family photos, friends, portraits | 6 Comments
okay, so i’m not much of a new year’s person, to be honest. BUT, i do love good times with good friends, and i happen to have a bunch of gorgeous, unbelievably photogenic friends who are really good sports with me and my camera… so i took my equipment over to my friend humera’s house tonight to get some portraits of the people i love. my plan was to practice doing some off-camera lighting… but i’ve only succeeded in realizing even more how much i have to learn about it, so there’s only, like, one shot in here with flash. otherwise… i mean, i was shooting with a canon 35mm 1.4L wide open on a 5D at ISO 1000… why even bother with the flash?? have i mentioned before how much i love this lens?!
humera, jawad, aatif, rubina, shaf, imran, and my growing family hassan, rabiah, issa baba and baby imani – thanks so much for a wonderful evening!
couple shoot: tilt-shift experiment I
November 19, 2009 | Filed Under friends, photography, portraits | 19 Comments
the setting was sweet: georgetown, late afternoon, an unseasonably warm and sunny november day with a startlingly blue sky echoed in the potomac. the equipment was exciting: i rented a tilt-shift lens (canon 45mm 2.8 ts-e), which (from what i understand) is intended to offer advantages in architectural photography related to perspective and depth of field, but also makes for fantastically dreamy kinds of portraits and i wanted to try my hand at this after seeing many photographers i admire use it regularly, even for weddings. and the couple? perfect! well… don’t take my word for it, please adore their cuteness yourself 
maryam: two months old!
October 29, 2009 | Filed Under baby, portraits | 1 Comment
wow… i think maryam is actually almost three months old at this point! it’s taken me a while to get these pics up; my family visited canada last week (niagara falls and toronto), and i haven’t even been through those pics yet!
but i did want to share these few at least! maryam grows more adorable each time, mashallah, and i absolutely loved the green shalwar kameez that her grandmother made for her this time! any smiles you see in these pictures (we had to work hard on them!) are mainly the result of her two uncles telling her crazy stories and trying to make her laugh i can’t wait for the next session!
