I just got some remote triggers in hopes of practicing my off camera lighting skills. So far, I haven’t had the time to hire a proper model, so I took my little one in the backyard around dusk. Well, these images are not the worst I’ve seen, but I really need to practice more. Hint, hint to any grown ups who want to help me practice. 
No matter where I placed the light, she walked right up to it like a moth. She wouldn’t sit still and just wasn’t in to the whole being-told-what-to-do process.
I almost didn’t share these, but I got a chuckle over our interaction as I was trying to sneak up on her with a big camera and a giant light stand with a great big white umbrella attached to it. I don’t know why she didn’t want any part of it. haha…
Here’s how the attempt went down:
“Whatchu do-een, Mommy?”
“Nothing, honey. Can you sit still for me?”
“I don’ like the light, Mommy. I go now.”
“Please, can I take a few more?”
“No.”
Try to imagine me snapping several more of her, moving the light around her. She keeps flopping down, wanting no part of it. Then, this happens…
She looks like she is about ready to come at me like a spider monkey.
“Stopppp, Mommy.”
The teeth-clenching sealed it. I shut it down, thanked her for her time, then promptly swept her inside to distract her with a cookie before she completely refused to work with me again.
