Shoot & Edit - Swing - The Edit

 Earlier this week I shared the adorable photo of Miss Molly enjoying her ride in the swing. Now I will share with you the edit. Here is the SOOC once more:

 SOOC

The Edit

Brought into ACR and made some minor exposure/brightness adjustments

Edited in CS5 

I zoomed, cropped, straigthened

Adjusted levels

Slight unsharp mask

I think I added the Milk Flora Bella action dropped the opacity to under 30%

Changed to black and white

Ran TRA's antique action

Check out more edits here

Sitting on the Bench

About a week or so ago I shared a photo from Mr. Drake's first birthday session down in Old Town Spring. I thought I would share one of his mom's and my favorite. We were walking around town and stopped at this little bench, Drake wanted to turn around and play with he back of it, but when his mom took out a snack he quickly perked up!

His actual birthday, and birthday party is this Saturday, cant believe he will already be one!

Shoot & Edit - Swing!

I remembered I had this photo from my mini session day and had to share it for this weeks shoot and edit. Miss. Molly has the best expressions and is such a happy child - and she just loves to swing!

Here is the original shot:

SOOC:

Come back Thursday to see the edit!

Bright and Vivid

I shared a photo of Miss. Aubrey about a month ago, but once I saw what the prompt was for I heart Faces this week I knew I needed to share another from her session. It is also a little bittersweet seeing as her and her family are moving to Kansas this week. Her mom Erin is one of my really good friends and I will miss her! I am saying a little prayer that they are not there for too long, I need her back in Texas!

Here is Miss. Aubrey - before she was covered in cake. If this does not qualify for "Bright and Vivid" then I do not know what does.

If you are interested you can see more from her session here. I have set up my Fleurish Facebook, feel free to "like" it as well (I still prefer "fan" to the new "like" thing...)

Hope everyone had a great weekend, we played some softball on Friday and celebrated Miss. Aubrey's big brothers 4th birthday at the pool on Saturday and had one last night out with her mom and dad before they move...sad face!

Today I headed out to the Astros game to meet up with some other Houston Bloggers. Right before  we headed to buy tickets this nice man came over and gave us all free tickets, and to top it off it was $1 hot dog day - hands down cheapest game I have ever been to. Winning! Even though they lost I still had a great time and met some wonderful ladies! If you are in the Houston area check out the blog - there will be more fun meet ups planned!

Ethan

 About a month ago one of our long time family friends booked a session for her sons senior photos. First off I could not believe that her son Ethan was graduating high school - I remember when he was born! So it was extra special that his mom Erica asked me to do his photos. We met up in downtown Houston, walked around and got some great shots - he had a great attitude about sporting the lovely cap and gown in the middle of downtown - luckily it was early and not too busy yet! Here is one of the images from his session - and one of my faves.

BEFORE

AFTER

Shot with my Nikon D5000 with the 17-55/2.8

Edited in CS5

Did some adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw

Adjusted the levels/curves

Zoomed a tad, straightened

Cloned out the light to the left

Slight unsharp mask

might have been a couple other steps....but I edited this about a month ago....

Black and White Wednesday - Mr. Austin

This past weekend I had the opportunity to take some photos of my wonderful friends son Austin. He turned 1 a couple weeks ago and she wanted some new photos of him. His mom Valerie and I have been friends for about 5 years, we worked together and became fast friends over our love of shopping. We were both in each others weddings and she has always been a great friend. So Sunday afternoon we headed down to a park and let the very mobile Austin run around.

Drake Turns 1

I have not posted all week - oops, but I wanted to share an adorable photo from a session this week. My friend Tammy asked me to take some photos of her adorable little boy, Drake for his first birthday. Cannot believe a year has gone by since this little guy was born! We walked around Old Town Spring, and got some really cute photos - and she also brought along her husbands old red wagon - LOVE!  He was a great model, and loved riding around town in the wagon. This is one of my favorites:

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!