I *heart* faces: B&W
noah, originally uploaded by steppingonlegos.
One of my favorites of Noah. This week’s theme is Black & White. Join us here: http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/2008/01/week-7-kids.html
Linear
originally uploaded by steppingonlegos.
Ok I know this is the most boring picture EVER but I really wanted to work on my lines. I generally suck at getting things straight and right the first time so that was the goal this week. I like the grain of the wood and the angles. Boring but definitely linear, right?!
You can see more and much more creative Linear shots over at the Land of K.A.
Theme Thursday: Childhood
Love this theme mostly because I am lazy and it is hot which means we never go far from home. Most of our childhood fun, these days, happens in our backyard these days and most of THOSE are pool pictures. I’m making progress with my blue filtering but it is still a challenge to figure out how to not blow out the picture, cast it too heavily in blue, reduce the noise without blurring the picture. Our backyard has either extremely harsh light or no light. Fun conditions, right? I think the solution is a new lens. Because it couldn’t possibly be my skill right?! ha.
{This picture cracks me up because it is so Addison. Floaties, sunglasses and all, cruising through the pool.}
{rare capture of Teegan ABOVE water}
{new to swimming, jumping and all things fun-in-the-water}
{Dalton used to hold a grudge against our dog, I guess he got over it}
{Lilo has fun too!}
See more awesome childhood shots at Theme Thursday on Land of K.A.
Healing with Black & White
Recently I took this photo of Addison:
I really love the photo but the ugly BRIGHT orange cone jutting out from her shoulder was a LITTLE distracting to me.
I’ve noticed that often times I can salvage a photo like this without doing heavy photoshop work just by converting it to black and white. Suddenly, the orange photo isn’t so obtrusive and distracting at all:
Mother’s Day: What Its All About
My family!!! Taking pictures of wet dirty kids: a mother’s dream come true!!
{my most beautiful sight in the world}
{childhood}
{all growed up, damn him}
{my baby boy}
{shelling: down and dirty}
{annoyed}
{looking cute, despite the glaring sun}
{water logged}
{dinner! Yes, he was really THAT happy about CRAWFISH!}
{I know this photo is all blown out and oversaturated to boot but I just love it anyway. I love these kids!}
Eye Pop
Last night I was playing around with Photoshop and tried a new technique for taking an otherwise dull photo and making the eyes pop.
1) use the mask tool to highlight just the eyes. I always choose everything inside the dark circle around the iris. I don’t include the dark circle itself.
2) demask to everything but the eyes are selected and then adjust saturation downward so that the picture is slightly desaturated.
3) select the inverse so that now the eyes are the only thing selected. Increase the brightness and contrast appropriately so the eyes really pop. The contrast between the desaturated picture and the brightly contrasted eyes will do amazing things to your photo!
I’m still trying to play around with this technique, I think this photo makes him look a little pale. But it’s a fun technique anyway.
Fun!
I don’t know about you but by the time my kids get to be about 10 or 11, they don’t necessarily stop letting me take pictures but all their photos take on a tone of complete silliness.
And then we have THIS kind of fun:
Bonus Shot:
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