Fix it Friday!

A very sweet FIF photo!!! I did not take this picture- I just edited it for Fix it Friday at I Heart Faces. You should go over there and check out all of the awesome edits. They are all so different – it is so neat to see all of the different outcomes from the same exact photo! Here is mine- what do you think?

I used PS CS5 for my edit. I cropped in to her sweet face, adjusted bright/contrast, sharpened it up a little, and then used Florabella’s B&W vanilla and added my own “tweaks” to convert it. Do you like it? I do! What a pretty little girlie.

 

Here is the photo before I edited it;

And her it is after I edited it!

Just Cuz!

She is a crazy amount of pretty AND I was itching to shoot my camera!

Sweet Shot Tuesday!

Its Sweet Shot Tuesday! I have to include TWO pics this week! I cannot decide which I love the most. I took my 4 kiddos out for a shoot this past weekend and decided to incorporate BALLOONS! I have wanted to do pix with balloons for a while now….SO glad I did! I got several but these 2 are my FAVE! Thanks for looking! Please let me know whatcha think

J Family Sneak Peek! {Wildwood Family Photographer}

What a sweet family I had the privilege to photograph!!! These sweet little girls are gorgeous and were so animated and FUN!!! And little baby L- he did not really wanna smile…but who needs to when you are as gorgeous as he is! Check out those baby blues. Thanks so much J family! I loved hanging with y’all for the afternoon :). Hope you enjoy your sneak peek!

More of my own :)

I was just not happy with any of the pics of all 4 last week- so we had to go out for a little re-shoot. I “think” I am happy with one of the pics of all 4 together….but I did get some FUN individuals!!!

Fix it Friday at I Heart Faces!!!

It’s another fun FIF at I Heart Faces and here is my entry! I did not take the original photo- I only edited (“fixed”) it. What do you think of my fix? Please leave me a comment and let me know!

I used CS5- cropped it to a square, used curves to bring some light to his sweet face, used Florabella haze action to put a dreamy haze over the photo and voila!

 

Here is the original

 

And here is my “fix”

 

My Own! {St Louis Family Photographer}

So- I finally got a good session out of my own! We desperately needed a pic with all 6 of us and I couldn’t figure out HOW I was going to manage. My 2 year old is VERY anti photo…hates every second of it and avoids looking decent in any way in front of the camera at all costs! My 4 year old is….well, he is 4. So anyway- a timer was out. Even a tripod and a remote was sorta out. SO….after much thought, prayers, and finger crossing, I talked my Sis in Law (who always helps me shoot my own anyway- she ROCKS)- into manning the tripod and the shutter for me and…..IT WORKED! It was still a challenge getting the 2yo and the 4 yo roped in and looking, smiling etc at the same time but we actually managed!!! HURRAH! LOTS of motion blur in the alley pic with the 4 kiddos but hey! I can’t expect to have it all. All in all- I am super happy.

Oh! And for my photog friends who wanna know exactly what I did….I used my tripod – framed my family (minus me) the way I wanted, set my shutter speed, aperture, and ISO for proper exposure, had my camera set to BBF so I focused it ahead of time and BAM! All my SIL had to do is press the shutter! Oh….and make the 2 yo smile and look which was way more difficult then pressing the shutter! Also- having my camera set on BBF made it alot more simple for my SIL to refocus between shots!

 

Here are the results!  THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU S!!!!!!