Sweet Girl

Still having lots of fun with these images. Even without much of a smile this baby girl is darling...I am excited that we finally coaxed one grin from her though!

Ballerina Baby ~Albany Oregon Photographer~

I am having so much fun editing my most recent session. Its taking lots of time because I am playing with each picture so much. They are all adorable and I just can't choose any favorites! So here are the first few from the session. Isn't she the sweetest little ballerina?

More Urban Baby ~Albany Oregon Photographer

Just wanted to post a few more shots of the sweet little girl I took pictures of earlier this week. I am loving the funky color in this first one!

Adorable

Just look at those eyes!!

Sweet Girls ~Oregon Childrens Photographer~

I just wanted to post some shots I took last week. I have a crazy week ahead of me and I am not sure when I might get to post again. Our yardscaping party is this weekend....which means, I am about to turn 30!! I will post some birthday giveaway details soon though!!!

~The Simple Life~ Family Time

I have sure been quiet lately...all the sunshine we are getting has inspired me to get going on a few projects around the old homestead. So we are trying to get our garden planted, our yard landscaped and we are finishing up the school year! (Can you believe that we have just 5 lessons left and we still have not finished...going on 3 weeks like that!)

I don't think I have really even touched my camera in a week! *gasp* Like I said in my last post, I am starting to have withdrawls!! But I promise to have a fun update later this week! I had a client contact me about doing some special pictures, I will be sure to post some later this week after the event! I can't wait!

Also, just 10 days left of my 20's! I am thinking of some sort of giveaway for my 30th birthday present to YOU! Hmm, we'll just have to see what happens there!

And because I can't post a blog entry without a picture, I caught this image when my kids sat down to watch daddy till up the garden area. They had been enjoying the slip-n-slide and took a break to sit down on the grass roller to watch. I thought it was so cute...so I grabbed the camera a snapped a picture! Our neighbor is SO good to let us borrow his tractor, I can't image tilling up this garden without it!

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Fix It Friday Week 13 @ I ♥ Faces

Fix it Friday again...yay!

This week we are fixing the following picture....the first thing I noticed was the bright background and underexposed subject. I thought of using PW's action to "dim the lights" and it worked beautifully. My edits are below...I tried not to do a bunch this week, but as I have said before, once I get started, I just don't want to stop! :)

ORIGINAL

Cropped, dimmed the lights and then lightened the girl, then ran "Lovely and Ethereal"

Rotated, cropped, dimmed the background, lightened the girl and ran 70's Action

Rotated, cropped, dimmed the lights and then lightened the girl, then ran "Lovely and Ethereal"

Same as above, but converted to black and white.

Same as above, but layered the black and white over the color, then used a layer mask to remove the b&w from the tulips.

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!!

I can't believe my "baby" is 4!! Time is just marching right past me...I almost can't stand it! She was so excited to take her "birthday pictures" today. What a ham...she did most of her own posing on these too!