Friday, August 27, 2010

Fix it Friday-Lightroom

Original Photo




Edit #1- Used pretty presets baby blues


Edit #2 Pretty preset brown. I used a mask on the face and lightened it up so it popped a little bit more.

Used a free preset called Stellar guru Greengold.

For more edits go to HERE!! And don't forget, if you visit a page LEAVE a comment. Feel free to ask question and leave constructive criticism here! I am open to all suggests.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Random photos from late


Nothing is as amazing as new life
A perfect day, with perfect people!
We did some science pictures with the praying mantis on our wall!
My Son who is visually impaired helped me take this one!

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Sunflowers

I have been driving past a bunch of sunflowers for a few weeks and finally I was driving by, in the car alone, and had my camera. I stopped ran into the bunch and snapped a few photos. I have not been that great at doing landscape anything but have had fun playing with the Macro setting on my lens. I have also learned a few editing techniques that I wanted to try.





There you have the field of flowers. I really love sunflowers and hope to shoot a few more times before they leave for the fall!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

The Wood Shop

In December my Grandpa Rue passed away. He was an avid wood maker. He would make tons of things with wood. When I was younger he built a wood shop in the backyard. If you didn't find him in the house he was sitting on his chair in the wood shop fiddling and drawing or making something.

I went to visit my mom this week and I had many dreams about taking some pictures of his tools hanging on the wall. Walking in the shop was a little surreal. It took my breathe away. But I got a few photos and I think they turned out pretty good.





Friday, August 13, 2010

Fix it Friday- lightroom

This is the original photo. You can download it HERE!
This is my creative one. I know not that creative but I liked it. I gave it a more dramatic crop and used pretty presets brown. Made some adjustments on the settings.
This one is a preset but I can't remember which one. ( If you want to know I will look it up for you) Ran an adjusment brush over his face to make it pop out. The eyes were done in the preset.
This is just the black and white conversion that I liked.

For more edits head on over to HERE!

*This photo is NOT my photo. I am the owner of the "edits" but the copyright is owned by Iheartfaces. Please don't copy and steal. Just go download your own and play along!*

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Fix it Friday- lightroom

This is the original- Photo is NOT taken by mean so DO NOT COPY!
I cropped this photo and use a preset called PHfashion IV and the tweek a few settings. The eyes change with the preset so I left them how they showed up. I do like this one.
Using Pretty Presets Brown. I LOVE their presets and if I had a million dollars I would be buying ALL of them. Again crop was done and tweeked settings
This one is pretty presets Sugar and it was cropped.
I am Fix it Friday a day late. I am sure no one visits over here but I enjoy the practice. I use the new and improved Lightroom 3. I decided I liked it and bought a nice whopping copy and I have to say the colors on PRINT are amazing.

* Please visit other fix it friday participants. Get some great editing ideas from them.*

PSS The photos are being used for education purposes only. I am not the artist who took the photos. I used the photo as a practice tool only. PLEASE do not steal the photos for your use. Do not water mark them as your own.

JUST DON'T STEAL- God hates it!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Recent RANDOM photos

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I am really far behind in uploading recent photos. I will be adding a few more as the weeks go on.