Thursday, June 26, 2014

Featured Photographer: Lynzi Berg Photography

This week we have the stunning Lynzi Berg Photography as our guest judge!! Her work is marvelous! Check out more about her and some of her images below! 


Tell us a little about yourself (family, hobbies, etc.)

I live with my husband and 3 sons, ages 5, 3, and almost 2, in Hamden, Connecticut. I am kind of like a fish out of water up here because I am a southern girl by birth. That being said, we are an army family so we are never anywhere for very long. One more year here and we are on to West Point, New York. I started homeschooling my oldest two last year, and with three boys running around we are going nonstop.


What got you started in taking lifestyle images (or photography in general)?

I am sure you guys are sick of hearing the same answer to this question from every photographer but I got my first camera when my oldest son was born. It took the birth of my third for me to learn how to use it. Lifestyle is a natural genre for a hobbyist with kids. I don’t currently have a business so my main subject is my children and I just love capturing them in their element. When I think about taking photos for other people, I like the idea of capturing their every day the way I capture my own.


Any photographers that you look up to?

Way, way too many to name! Mel Karlberg taught me how to use my camera. I love her work and I am eternally indebted to her for opening up the world of photography to me. I love the emotion Cynthia Dawson evokes with her black and whites. Kate T. Parker, Candice Zugich…the list really does go on and on.


What is in your camera bag?

I like to think of myself as the epitome of doing a lot with a little. That being said, I did just upgrade my camera. My Kelly Moore Two Sues bag holds a Nikon D610, a 50 mm 1.8 Nikkor lens, and an extra battery. The rest is all diapers, crayons, some Nerf darts, and lipstick!


If you could shoot anybody in the world, anywhere, who and where?

I have thought about this often. I was blessed to know and have a relationship with my great grandparents until I was well into my teens. I loved them so much and their relationship with each other was so precious. If I could, I would photograph them sitting together in their lawn chairs on their gravel driveway. Her in her homemade slippers and him in his snap button shirt. I can’t think of anything I would rather capture and keep for future generations.




So wonderful! :) I just love the photo of the 'first tooth'!!! 

To see more of her work, visit her Facebook page, Lynzi Berg Photography! Be sure to share some love!!! 





Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Weekly Favs | Top 10 | Week Ending 06/19/2014

We want to once again give a huge thank you to Erin Shepley Photography for being our guest judge this week! Please go visit her page and show her some love! 

Without further ado, the top honor and top 10 images!

~*Top Honor*~

Congrats to Love Bee Photography on being chosen by our guest judge as top honor image for this week!! Such a beautiful image!! 

~*Top 10* (in no particular order)~









Copyright: Tiffany Erb





Sunday, June 22, 2014

Featured Photographer: Erin Shepley Photography

Yet another amazing week at My Beautifully Chaotic Lifestyle! Our judge for this past week is the stunning Erin Shepley Photography. Below you can learn more about her and check out some of her truly amazing work! 


Tell us a little about yourself (family, hobbies, etc.)

I am a wedding and portrait photographer based in Calgary, Alberta. I am a work at home Mom to a sweet 16 month old boy, Landon and my husband, Matt is a project manager for a disaster restoration company. I am the oldest of six kids so have always been used to noise and chaos. I tap danced for 13 years but my most amazing skill is animal impressions haha!


What got you started in taking lifestyle images (or photography in general)?

I really got into photography about 4 years ago. I began taking classes at a local college and was immediately hooked. I took everything from beginner photography to darkroom processing / film photography. I knew it was something I wanted to continue learning about and doing more of when I was excited for every class and I couldn't stop reading and practicing everything I was taking in. Once I did some sessions and got enough shooting under my belt over the next couple years, I really found my style. Lifestyle photography came naturally to me as I discovered how much I love to work with people and create genuine images from true emotion and capture things as they unfold. Births and weddings are my favourite things I shoot.


Any photographers that you look up to?

Oh my, yes! I am inspired and motivated every day by a different photographer. I follow so many of them, both locally and around the world. There are just too many to name!



What is in your camera bag?

I keep things simple. I shoot with a Nikon D700 and a Nikon D5100 as my backup. My lenses include a 50 f1.4, 85 f1.8, 24-120 f4 and 105 macro. I also have 2 speedlights, SB900s.


If you could shoot anybody in the world, anywhere, who and where?

I would love to follow a folk band around for a week and capture some candids of them travelling and singing together.



Absolutely stunning!! Be sure to go check out more of her work on her Facebook page, Erin Shepley Photography page or website, http://erinshepleyphotography.com 



Friday, June 13, 2014

Weekly Favs | Top 10 | Week Ending 06/12/2014

What another wonderful week it has been at My Beautifully Chaotic Lifestyle!! Each week it gets harder and harder to choose just 10 images and just 1 top honor image! This week we had the honor of having Tiffany Roberts Photography as our guest judge! Below are her picks for top honor and top 10! 

~*Top Honor*~

A huge congrats to Gabreal Elizabeth: Photographer on being chosen for the top honor image this week!! Such lovely colors and cuteness!! Great work!

~*Top 10*~ (in no particular order)













Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Featured Photographer: Tiffany Roberts Photography

Such an honor this week to have Tiffany Roberts Photography as our guest judge over at Beautifully Chaotic Photography. Her images are truly outstanding!! She won me over last week with the image of her little one standing in the kitchen chair at the table! Check out more about her below!


Tell us a little about yourself (family, hobbies, etc.)

I am a stay at home mom with two littles; my oldest is about to turn four, my youngest is 14 months.  We, along with my husband, live in Norman, OK.  I grew up in central California, and hope to one day return to the central coast where I had the good fortune of spending a few years while I attended University.  I am a bit of home body and introvert.  On the rare occasion that I have time to myself, you will likely find me in an online photography forum or Netflix binging (yeah, I totally made it through Orange is the New Black 2nd season in less than two days…don’t judge :)). 


What got you started in taking lifestyle images (or photography in general)?

I wish I had some awesome story, but it was what you hear time and time again, I wanted to document the lives of my children beautifully and honestly.  I started taking on clients when I realized how expensive all the STUFF was and I needed a way to pay for it all without taking food out of the mouths of my family. 
This year I started a project 365 and I feel like I have finally found my voice behind the camera.  Everyday storytelling has literally become a part of my daily life and I am more satisfied creatively then I ever have been.  The process has been a total eye opener and has completely changed the way I shoot and see the world around me.  For anyone on the fence, I highly recommend some sort of personal project!


Any photographers that you look up to?

 Oh Lordy, where to begin?... Locally, Summer Lee.  She shot my wedding years ago and we have since become friends.  Her use of light is incredible and her portraits are simple, emotive, and stunning!  I love our occasional coffee dates when we geek out to everything photography, and complain about how gross our kids are :).  There are quite a few others who inspire me that I periodically stalk on facebook and elsewhere.  Cris Stephens is a favorite; one day I will be able to use shadows as effortlessly and effectively as she does, or at least that's what I am working towards.  Same goes for Deb Schwedhelm, Katy Tuttle, Amber Privizzini, Candice Zugich, Megan Axelsson, Deborah Parkin, and who could forget Sally Mann. 


What is in your camera bag?

Nikon D7000 with a sigma 18-35mm 1.8 for lifestyle, Nikorr 85mm 1.8 for portraits.  My freelensing set-up is a Nikon D5000 (the camera I started with three years ago) and a Nikon 50mm 1.4G.  For film I shoot with a Nikon N80 and either a 35mm 1.8 or 50 1.4.  I always carry the usual things; a few rolls of film (usually Kodak Gold 400 because I am way too cheap to spring for Portra), extra SD cards, batteries, lens pens, yada-yada, and scotch tape to rig my 50 to free lens.  I do not leave home without gum, lots and lots of gum.  Rythmic chewing focuses me. 


If you could shoot anybody in the world, anywhere, who and where?

This is a tough one.  I can’t say I have ever fantasized about shooting any particular place or person.  Is that weird?  I would however love to eventually do some underwater photography and document a birth; and if both of those of those things happen simultaneously, I would be one happy girl :D.  



Absolutely amazing!! You can check out more of her work at her website, http://www.tiffanyrobertsphotography.com, her blog http://www.tiffanyrobertsphotography.blogspot.com, or on her Facebook page Tiffany Roberts Photography