Lunch time at our house

P B & J is the lunch of choice today. Gotta love that! The girls are very particular about their sandwiches. They have to have the crust cut off and one needs to have 4 square sandwiches while the other one will only eat it if they are cut into bite size pieces. So I think this fits into this weeks them of love. What else says love more than making lunch exactly how they want it :)








Also my little Aubrey. Here is her new cut. What I was afraid would happen, did happen. I was hoping the cut would enhance her curls, but instead it cut them all off. What a sad day! No more wetting her hair and heading out the door. This picture was taken right after I tried to revive the curls. Notice the above picture of her eating lunch, gone. So sad! My little girl is growing up!

First Haircut

Today was my little ones first haircut. She is 20 months and I am just so excited she has hair! My first hardly had any hair and it grew VERY slowly! She did very well with the cut and actually smiled for me (which is unusual).

As you can see from the picture, we didn't cut very much off, but it sure makes her look different!

Tomorrows POTD will be with her new cut. Didn't get a good one today.

Self Portrait

I always find that self portraits are the hardest. I do much better behind the camera :) I did do the self portrait challenge earlier this year, but I always tend to do a shoulder shot (less of my face . Anyway, I saw so many great, creative self portraits, I thought I would give it a try. This is what I worked on this weekend. I used the Pioneer Womens PW's B & W action on them.
So what do you think. I actually didn't mind that my face filled the whole frame. Here is my shot at a creative self portrait :)


Couldn't decide on color or b/w version. Although I did like how the b/w blew out my blemishes :)

Another little baby

So all of my friends just had babies so I get to play with them.
I have a little game for all my POTD friends and any other followers that I might have.

Here is my problem:
All of my pictures seem to be on the orange side. Can anyone help me with this?

Here is the game plan and rules:
I am going to post the SOOC and who ever wants to play along can download it and e-mail me your fix. You need to send me all the details of what you did (being as specific as possible). The picture I like the best I will post and send them a special handmade gift from me :)
My e-mail: becky.an03@gmail.com
I need all edits 7:00 mountain standard time on Friday, February 6th.

I am hoping to learn a little from all of you on how to get rid of my orange skin tones. And if you think they look fine, let me know! Thanks for playing!!

SOOC:
RAW Image (posted as JPEG)
ISO 400
1/320
f 1.8
Natural light from north window. 2:00 PM



And here is my edit. lightened in ACR. Played with levels and curves.

Skintone correction

All of my pictures seem to have an orange glow to them, so matter how I adjust my white balance in my camera. I was searching on the internet and came across this article and I thought I would give it a try. I am on my husbands laptop (again) and these are the only pictures I have to play with. Here is my fix using his method. How does the skin tone look?

This is from my home sweet home!

So this picture doesn't really have anything to do with home, except that it was taken from my front porch. This is the first sunrise that I have seen like this. Don't get me wrong, they may happen more often, I just sleep through them or am too tired to notice :) I loved the colors! And just incase you missed it, this is a SUNRISE! It was breathtaking! It was gone as fast as it came.

SOOC:
RAW IMAGE
taken in sRGB color mode
ISO 200
1/100
f 4.5



And here is my edit. Just saturated colors more.

Taking the tip to my camera

So on 2 peas I read this post today. Wonderful post and article! Anyone interested in photography needs to read it! Anyway, I took it to my camera and this is what I got:

Here is my SOOC:
RAW image and I metered to my 18% gray card
ISO 800
1/160
f 1.8
natural light from south windows at 2:00. I also pushed her to the back of the room so I could see how much light I could get from there.



Here is my edit. (On my husbands laptop, which isn't calibrated. How does the skintone look? Too orange? Thanks!)
I lightened, sharpened and boosted color





I checked out my post on my desktop and the above picture looked WAY too bright. So I fixed it again. But it was on the laptop, so not sure what this will look like. It looks really dark on my laptop screen.