Week 20 - the photo booth

Isn't that a fun way to edit some random snapshots????

Week 19 - Sneak peak - behind the scenes

So here is our setup. Lillian and I have gotten creative in improvising our own studio. Our "official" website will be up and running soon. Just thought some of you would want to see the behind the scenes version.

Week 18 - A Fun group shot idea for birthdays

 

Can you guess how old Julianne just turned????

And how many people were at her party???

Week 17 - Exposure

While talking to Keri and looking at a bunch of examples online, it became obvious that there are a lot of photographers whose style is to overexpose the photos -- it does indeed make the colors "pop" but I can't tell if I always like it.

Here are pictures of flowers one with the correct exposure and one overexposed (the sky is clearly blownout). My question is which do you prefer???

 

 

Check out this link and then give me your opinion?
http://blog.drewbphotography.com/then-comes-baby/tracys-day-with-drew/
Are they overexposing the photo by just bumping up the exposure a notch?? or are they spot metering so that the people are exposed properly and the rest is blown out???

I think they are just bumping up exposure -- for the added effect of more vibrant colors -- but I don't know -- what do you think???

Week 16 - Words in Photoshop

I figured this out a couple of weeks ago in photoshop with Lillian and made this square with Adam's name. I actually thought I posted it several weeks ago for one of my weeks, but as I was looking back through I realized I did not. So here it is. This is one of the few techniques I have found that I really need photoshop for. I just haven't found a way to do this in any other program. I hope to come up with a lot more uses. A tutorial for how to do this can be found here. http://www.clippingimages.com/blog/place-an-image-in-text-using-photoshop/

Week 15 - Soccer -- aka Action shots

Harder than it looks -- not so much the photography part but waiting patiently long enough to get your child doing something photographically amazing -- especially when using a telephoto lens while the action seems to always be on the opposite side of the field (as in this shot)



But then things change so fast and before I can even move the zoom she is running at me and I miss not only the top of her head, but also the ball -- because that would have made for a great photo.

Week 14 -- A baby. . . a 9 day old baby

Babies. . . well they are a lot harder than I think they ought to be. For a little creature that cannot crawl away, cannot roll over, and is supposed to sleep 18 hours a day, they sure can wiggle, and squirm, and stay awake. . . seemingly forever!!!! But I think I got 3 good ones. What do you think????