Playing around with a picture from Natalie's 3rd Birthday.

February 1, 2008

I'm getting sick of snowy pictures so I'm playing around with another older picture.

This is one of my all time favorite pictures that I took awhile ago. I just had to give the textures a try on it.

I can't believe it's been almost a week since I've posted. Man! I've been slacking! These shots are of the tree/bush outside my window with a fresh coat of snow.

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel, 80-200mm lens, 1/250, f/7.1, iso 400

Post Processing: Brown color overlay, 3 textures from textureking.com

The first picture here is the original and each one after that has a slight less texture in it..I did the first one and I kept thinking that I overdid it, so I kept taking the texture down a bit. I took this picture awhile ago and I saw a flower that Mandy did and I loved how hers looked so I tried to get it like hers but not exact. Anyway, let me know what you think!!

An location example for the utah get together

MY POTD IS A FEW POSTS BELOW!!!

Not on theme but I couldn't resist to put this one up! This is the ice drops on the back window of my car!! Sorry that I haven't gotten to comments for a couple days but I'm hoping to get everyone tonight. *Note* I just wanted to say that my heart goes out to Heath Ledgers family..it so sad to hear about people dying at such a young age and my heart goes out to his daughter..nobody should have to go through what she'll be going through. It just breaks my heart.

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, 18-55mm lens, 1/125, f/8, iso 200

Post Processing: fill flash, contrast, white color overlay, 2 textures from textureking.com

Natalie is starting to write letters all by herself..It is so exciting!!

January 22, 2008

My daughter is starting to write letters all by herself..it's so exciting! I don't know if I'm theme or not..i've seen 2 lists that say different things..so oh well! I thought it was words but I may be wrong.

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, 18-55mm lens, 1/10, f/5.6, iso 200

Post Processing: Contrast, fill flash, & brown color overlay

Oh! I just got a good laugh from what Natalie just said to me. Oh man!! She came in and brought me a dvd..we've been watching Princess Diaries lately and she brought it in and said "Mom is this diarrheas?" Oh she makes me laugh everyday..I love her so much!

Here's some of the pages that I've done for Natalie's ABC book..i'm pretty excited about it!! I think she'll like it..she's been helping me pick out some of the pictures and she keeps saying what the page says like "D is for Dad" it's pretty cute.

January 21, 2008

A cherry tree branch
Before

After

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, 18-55mm lens, 1/800, f/6.3, iso 200

Post Processing: Auto contrast, fill flash, 2 textures from textureking.com

Well, I haven't posted for January 19th so I'm going to post 2 pictures this time. My father in law and I took 6 kids over to the church to play basketball and the kids were out in the hall getting a drink and I noticed an awesome sillouette picture and had to take it. I thought this one turned out pretty cool. Than we went back and made a snowman. The snow really isn't dirty..it's just textures. It was very very white snow infact. Very pretty! Anyway, so there's our snowman and my niece in the picture below.

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, 1/15, f/5.6, iso 200

Post Processing: SOOC except made b&w

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, 1/2000, f/6.3, iso 200
Post Processing: Brown color overlay, 2 textures from textureking.com

January 18

I let her take Esmerelda for pictures today..she loves this bear.

SOOC - I added this one cause i was looking at the one below it and I don't think I like the texture in it.

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, 1/400 (1/250 on last picture), f/8.0, iso 200

Post Processing: Brown color overlay (adjusted different on each picture), 2 textures from textureking.com

We have a little static problem in our house and i'm sick of it..but I didn't get a few good laughs out it today. I just had to share this picture.

Apparently Natalie and I have turned into dresser knobs. hmm!! She brought these into me and said this smaller one is me and this bigger one is you. Um ok!! Whatever. And then she switches and said this bigger one is dad. geez..i just got the boot. man!

Our house has a small static problem..i'm very very sick of it but got a few laughs out of it earlier today. Just had to share this picture.

Looking at this picture just makes me want to cry..I miss my Oliver so much. We had to give him away cause everytime I would touch him I'd break out in hives..so we had to give him up. Oh it breaks my heart to see these pictures!

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel, 1/50, f/5.6, iso 100

Post Processing: Contrast, fill flash, b&w, 2 textures from textureking.com

Before

After

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, 1/400, f/11, iso 400

Post Processing: Contrast, Fill Flash, Duplicate Layer, Gaussian Blur set to overlay, frame

January 15, 2008

This was one brave bird..we were sitting at a picnic table and we had all these birds swarming around us..this is taken with a 80-200 lens but this bird was so close to us anyway. This guy was right by my foot. It was crazy.

Settings: Canon Digital Rebel EOS, 1/400, f/8.0, iso 200

Post Processing: Auto Contrast, Fill Flash, Frame

January 14, 2008

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, 1/160, f/8.0, iso 400

Post Processing: Contrast, fill flash, b&w, light brown color overlay, 2 texture overlays from textureking.com, frame

I'm not entirely sure what I did with these, I got to playing around and I don't think I could tell you step by step what I did..basically i did a brown color layer and then I adjusted one of them to hue, one to overlay. Those are the only 2 I remember..then on a couple of them I did a texture on them from textureking.com..I also put grain in them. Someone asked how I do the grain..i have photoshop elements and I just went into filter, noise, add noise. i think i might have played with them a little too much..i really like the last one but I don't know if it's too much. I think the last 2 are the same except the last one has a texture. anyway, let me know what you think. I'm loving textures by the way! Thanks for your comments and suggestions..I love hearing from you guys!

A building (if that's what you can call it) right off the freeway that everyone always paints messages on. I always thought this was kinda cool so I decided to stop and take a picture of it.

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel, 1/10, f/5.0, iso 400

Post Processing: B&W, contrast, burn edges, added some grain

I don't know what it is about the moon, but I LOVE to take pictures of it! No matter how many pictures I already have of it on my computer everytime I see it in the sky I want to take a picture of it..I just think the moon is so pretty. That's one of the things I like to focus on the most!

Settings: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, Canon 80-200 lens, 1/200, f/5.6, iso 400

Post Processing: SOOC, Frame

Here's a little storyboard of Natalie finding a branch!! Crazy girl! If there's a big branch anywhere she can find it! You can click on the picture to see the bigger version.