My Secret Side Job

I am pretty sure that most of you out there don't know that I have a little photography business on the side. The whole thing just makes me laugh. Me, of all people, getting paid to take pictures. Who would have thought? The reason I find this so funny is that Kevin was so into photography and read all these books and experimented with this and that to create such awesome photographs. Just another of his many hobbies. And now here I am, the one who does not grasp anything about f-stops or shutter speed whatsoever; the one who uses the green automatic mode on my camera most of the time, taking pictures for an Amish guy's harness catalog. So there ya have it, I am Angie, the photographer that only an Amish guy could love.

My Amish guy calls me every now and then to take pictures for him. I burn them on a CD or email them to his printer. His printer does wonders with them and turns them into nice catalog prints. Amazing! Well, last week the dear fellow calls and needs some pictures taken. He has very little light inside his shop so all the pictures are taken outside. In case you are not from Ohio right now, let me tell you it is very cold here right now. So there I was, trying to take pictures of a brown harness that was on a brown 3-year old skittish horse. First mistake was leaving my gloves in the car. Second, was trying to get a good picture on a brown horse, it just doesn't show up well enough. Believe me, this one was the best out of all of them and this is after I doctored it up quite a bit. After 45 minutes in the freezing cold my hands were red and numb but they were finally done bringing out stuff. Boy, was I disappointed when I got home and realized that I will be going back out in the cold to do these over because they just didn't turn out good enough.

I was back at it Monday and I think the inventory must have doubled since the first time, but lucky for me they decided to ditch the live horse and just hung the items up on a post. It's a wonder, but posts are so much easier to take pictures of then a horse who is prancing around and moving his head and ears this way and that. This time I came prepared with thin gloves that I could wear while taking pictures. Needless to say, it was still VERY cold. I was thinking that maybe I should charge double for winter time photo shoots, what do you think? Anyway this money will go toward my trip to Burkina Faso in 5 WEEKS!! So it's worth it all in the end!