Before and After - Nick

As I mentioned in my previous post, I headed to Galveston this past weekend to take some photos for a high school friend sons. Their mom wanted some close up shots of their faces, in the original photo Matt has the awkward forced photo, he was totally ready to run back into the water, but Nick had a really cute smile on his face so what I saw this image I thought maybe I could crop Matt out. Sorry Matt! Here is how it turned out:

BEFORE

AFTER

and black and white just because...

Nikon D5000 15-55/2.8

Edited in CS5

Zoomed, then cloned the beach and water to erase the rest of Matt's head

Adjusted levels and curves

Ran Flora Bella's Halo and dropped the opacity to around 30% I can't remember...oops

 

I Heart Faces - Shadows

The theme this week at I Heart Faces is shadows. I am now being sure that I make the entry deadline, I missed it last week. Yesterday morning I headed down to Galveston to take some photos of my high school friend Sarah's two sons - Matt and Nick. The shoot started a little shaky, they boys were super shy, but once we went out on the beach they were having a blast. I took my shoes and socks off and joined in on the fun - lots of sand and water later we came away with some adorable images including this one

Week 13 Shoot & Edit - UP! - The Edit

Time to show you my edit to my UP shot. The original was really flat and definitely needed a pop of color. I am happy with the outcome, even after forgetting where I saved the original edit, redoing, saving over another file, and starting all over again..only to finally find my original edit, it was hiding. Damn you! I am also pretty surprised at how blue the Galveston water looks here, trust me people it is NOT that blue in person...at all! Enjoy!

Don't you think this would be a great advertisement for MetLife? I think so too, haha

SOOC

EDIT 1

Cropped the lovely people to the right

Ran TRA's "Punch Out" Dropped fill and opacity down to 40%

Adjusted Levels a tad

Dodged the Dirigible some

EDIT 2 - Cloned out the Blimp...er Dirigible

Judi

My brother-in-law lost his mother to cancer tonight.

Her smile could light up a room.

Her positive attitude was infectious.

She was loved.

By many.

You will be missed.

I am glad I was able to give them these images.

Two

Faith over at Simplicity - My Life in Mostly Pictures photo challenge prompt is  all about "two." When I saw this today I knew that I had the perfect photo. When I was in New Orleans a few weeks ago and did some family photos for my cousins co worker, we headed out to City Park. Near where we shot at there are these rocks with these metal numbers on them. We had Sophia sit on the number 4, since she will be turning 4, and we had Dalton sit on the number 2. Dalton has made an appearance over here a few weeks ago, and here he is again. Enjoy!

Week 13 Shoot & Edit - UP!

This is my first week participating in Jill and Ashley's Shoot & Edit challenge. When I saw the prompt this week my first thought was the movie Up - if you have not seen it, go rent, netflix, or borrow it, its great!

Now for my SOOC shot - this was taken a couple weeks ago when I was in Galveston for Miss Haydyn's first birthday photos. We all looked up and saw this large blimp (or a "dirigible" as my dad says, he taught Evan this word so I guess if a 2.5 year old can use this word so should I right?) just floating along. Apprently I did not get the memo that this thing was flying around the area all weekend. My parents even saw it at their house that is about 15-20 miles away

Here is my SOOC:

Check back later this week for my edit!

I Heart Faces - Best of March

Best of March for I Heart Faces I think will definitely go to Miss Haydyn, and her snazzy shades. I shared this photo just last week, but I just knew you wanted to see it again.