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I’ve seen some amazing wedding and portrait photographers do some just incredible portraits with massive sun flares in them and decided I wanted to try to do the same. However, I knew how hard it would be to expose something like that and still get the gorgeous rays of the sun shining through (instead of just blowing out the entire scene, turning it all white). So I decided I had better get some practice in.

This one was the best of a little practice session I did on KSU’s campus on my way back from class one afternoon.

ISO 100, 1/160s, f8, 18mm

This spring I had the chance to shoot family portraits for some friends of ours from around town. He’s a big K-State fan, so, in order to convince him to show up for the portraits, his wife said they would do the shoot on the campus of his favorite team!

We met there on campus and had a great shoot, starting with a location that they had spotted.

One of the locations I had scouted out previously was the old football stadium where they now hold a lot of intramural events. It’s always open and a very cool location to play with!

I was super excited to see that one of the tunnels leading onto the field was open.

Their daughter was the cutest little bug–she followed me around everywhere, just unleashing her adorable eyes on me, especially once I broke out the bribes candy.

In turn, I started following her around.

Thankfully, they were very open to some of my crazy ideas, especially because one of these turned out to be their favorite image from the session!

Thanks for such a fun session, you guys! You were a wonderful first family for me to shoot.