52 Week Project- Week 3!

The theme this week was 'Winter.' I was trying to think out of the box on this. As my 'box' is always people. =) So, I stepped outside my front door and it hit me, the trees! All the trees in my front yard are totally bare. Definitely winter!!

I also wanted to step out of my 'editing box' on this image too. So here it is!

WINTER!

Pixel Perfect Blog Hop

The kids and I actually got some time outside yesterday! I don't usualy take my camera out with us but yesterday I was really feeling the need for some good new pictures =)


SOOC:

My son riding on our 'roller coaster.'


Edit:



In the color edit first I adjusted the temperature, brightness, clarity and vibrance (in ACR). Then over in PSE7 I made a duplicate layer and with the spot healing brush got rid of some of the leaves, etc in the background. I also ran MCP's Eye Doctor action and then evened our his skin with Coffeeshops Glamour Glow. I really like the color edit, nice and clean. But I am a sucker for a B&W conversion. So here it is with Florabella's Vanilla action. LOVE!





Thanks for stopping by and check out Pixel Perfect for more great Before and Afters!

The {K} Family Photo Session

Two weeks ago the {K} Family and I braved the Oklahoma cold (and wind) to get some family pictures. John is an avid photographer himself so the pressure was on! ;)

These were also the first professional pictures for baby JJ!





Everyone did so well and we got a LOT of smiles!

Pixel Perfect Before and After

This week I took a few pictures that were so cute but needed a LOT of help! Perfect for the Before/After at Pixel Perfect!

SOOC:

My white balance was WAY off! My husband had yelled to me that my daughter was being cute with all the bubbles in the bathtub, so I just ran in there with whatever settings were already on the camera. Mistake, LOL!


After:

Since I had a whole batch of them I went to LR3 and changed the white balance (-50 temperature) then increased the exposure and brightness a bit. Then in PSE7 I wanted to see what else I could do so I made a duplicate layer and changed the blending mode to screen. I reduced the opacity to 25% and used the eraser to mask of the effect on the painted wall. But it did make all the white in the tile and the bubbles really pop! I then ran the high pass filter to sharpen things up. Thats it! WAY BETTER!




Thanks for stopping by! Hope you're having a great week =)

52 Week Project- Week 2

Okay, I'm behind on this week. Already!?!?!? But the theme for "last" week is Birthday. (as it was Dana's birthday that week! Happy birthday!)



We celebrated my daughter's 3rd birthday in December, but luckily we've had this sign from her birthday up on our front door for quite some time ;)





We had a great time at her totally princess party!

BTW: I got this great sign and other princess printable from Amy @ Living Locurto.





Hope you're having a great week!

The {W} Family Downtown Maternity

Last weekend the {W} Family and I braved the cold to walk around "downtown" and find some beautiful backdrops for their maternity pictures! When you live in a town of less than 20,000 people the "downtown' area is a definite figure of speech ;)

I was so pleased with the beautiful areas we did find!!!





I was also thrilled to be able to present Jill and James with their images at the baby shower for their little girl just last night =) Can't wait to meet her!

Fix It Friday #82

Yeah its Friday!!! Among other thing it means another FIF over at I Heart Faces!

The SOOC from Rachel Durik, is gorgeous!

With only a few minor tweaks (+ 6 temperature, +15 exposure & +30 vibrance) the images is stunning. BUT why not have some more fun!!! I didn't want to go B&W because this little girls blue eyes are just too amazing so I decided to play with texture! I added Florabella's 'Truffle' texture on blending mode: multiply then reduced the opacity to 35%.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!!!