DGN Photography in Columbus, Ohio – newborn, maternity, baby, child, family, wedding photographer, senior pictures

So… I bought this tool needed for framing off of Ebay.  The guy took forever to send it but I got his package today… and he sent me a tape roller when I bought a point driver.  Needless to say, I wasn’t very happy, and put in a complaint to Paypal. (The guy has not responded to a single email, and so that was the 4th contact attempt).

Anyway, so today I called around locally and found that Hobby Lobby carries them, with a 40% coupon to boot.  So I was able to get started framing the 11 pictures (and maybe be able to actually use the studio on Tues).  I still have to install the hanging hardware on them, but the images are at least in the frames now.

I’m really excited about hanging this one on my wall.  It’s about time I got some of my own work up on our walls! It’s even bigger than our 16×20 (plus mat) wedding photo above our fireplace.  So here it is in all it’s framed glory:

The weather was GORGEOUS today, so I took the kids to the zoo.  I took my trusty point & shoot camera along (which is a Canon Powershot S3 IS) because my good camera is heavy and requires a bag to carry it in, so I don’t like to take it if I have to double as Chief Baby Wrangler.  The P&S takes pretty good photos if there’s enough light.

We went through Asia Quest and then to the Americas.  The kids really enjoyed the train (it was closed the last few times we’d been to the zoo), although the baby had had enough of sitting still and wanted to climb off my lap and do her own thing on the train.

These are a bit artsy, I was playing around with some conversions in Photoshop.

They thought the sand sculpture was nifty. “Mommy, can we climb on it?” (good thing they asked first!) I told them no, but if they went over “there”, I’d take their picture with the sculpture.

I don’t remember what kind of cat this was.  It was one over in Asia Quest.  I played around with some color on this one.

Congrats to Megan J. who was the first person to email me about missing a day on the blog!  She wins a $10 Starbucks gift certificate.  The contest runs until May 31, so keep on watching, I might miss another day (I hope not!)  I was just really busy a couple days ago and completely forgot to update the blog until 3 am, when I had a very happy and awake baby, I realized it too late.  Oh well. Maybe Megan will think about me as she sips her tall latte.

For a picture for today, while Maylie was at preschool, we went to Once upon a Child to get the 3 kids summer outfits.  This is why it’s best not to take Maylie shopping… If she goes shopping, then she wants stuff that I don’t want to buy for her, and then she’s upset.  (Maybe she’s 5 going on 15).  But if I surprise her with new clothes, then she is ecstatic and giddy about the new clothes, and loves them all.

This is how happy she was:

I got part of my order of large prints and frames yesterday!  I actually got all the large prints, but just the frame for the largest photo.  I received a notice yesterday that the rest were shipped yesterday (from Maumee, so hopefully I will get them today).  Then I’m just waiting on a framing tool I bought off Ebay, and I can finish up the framing and take them to get hung up.  This has been a big project, that’s for sure.

The largest one is 32×40, it’s mounted on hardboard (all the prints are mounted).  They all have a digital mat, which I created in Photoshop to make them look like they’re matted.  I like how they look without glass, and a digital mat allows you to frame them without glass (the mat won’t get dusty).

The rolled up one is a misprint of the largest print.  That was an expensive mistake on my part. (there was an error on the digital mat that they caught and called me about).

One thing’s for sure, the kids are going to have a blast with the 32×40″ pieces of cardboard that they were shipped with!

Trying to post in the blog every day is sometimes hard, because I don’t have time every day to get out and take pictures. I don’t know how the people who are doing 366’s do it (they post a photo every day for the whole year).

So here is a photo that I took (over spring break) of Vivi crawling towards me.  The expression on her face I find pretty amusing.  She was just so pleased with herself that she was racing towards me on her hands and knees.  I think I just used the window light for this one.

Are you sure?? Because he’s really cute!! This little guy is 3 months old!  It was an on-location photography session in Westerville, Ohio. I took my portrait studio on the road and set up in their living room.

Here is a family portrait, and the baby is saying “What’s going on?”

And this one just makes me smile every time I look at it.  He was complaining saying “hey! I’m done with pictures! Where’s my binky?”

I had a table at the Columbus AP Village Open Market today (held at the First UU Church), and had a really great time.  Boy, am I tired though.  I passed out a few business cards, and chatted with people.  Good times.  And somehow managed to only spend $20 (on a Hello Kitty Sigg bottle from Baying Hound).

So, I leave you on Saturday night with a picture to hopefully make you smile…

Here’s a shot I took of Vivi sitting out in the grass this morning.  She didn’t really know what to make of the grass, so decided to sample it a minute later.  I love how the grass has gotten  greener with all the rain, and a lot of the trees have started to bloom with pink flowers.

I had a photoshoot in Newark last weekend of a great family, and I had a lot of fun!  The little boy was not so into having his pictures taken, but very into Star Wars, and it was a riot with him shooting me with his little pretend Star Wars missles and me pretending my camera was a missile (”PEW! PEW! PEW! I got you!”)

And this is why I’m a bit proud of this picture right here, it’s apparently not often that someone can get a smiling portrait out of him, and I got him to pose for one picture.

And then we have the sweet little girl, just 14 months old and very rambunctious as well.  She was very very  happy to be put on the ground to walk!

And then I leave you with this sweet photo of the baby girl looking at her mom’s necklace (about 10 seconds after she taste tested it).

I’m sending out to get printed a bunch of large prints for display, and just did one for my house to add to the bunch.  You’ve probably seen these photos before, back earlier in my blog.  I just love these photos so much, I’ve been wanting to get them blown up big for my wall.

So this is going to be about 20″x28.5″, and I’m going to custom frame it with a black wood frame.  That’s a faux matte on it, done in photoshop (it looks real, I’ve done a test print with it.  I created the matte myself to resemble the real mattes I have on some artwork at home).  If I use a faux matte, I don’t have to put glass or acrylic in the frame.  I can just have the print mounted and sprayed with a finish and texture.  It’s going to look awesome, I’m so excited.