Bring on 2011!!!

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Sorry for the poor quality, but I still enjoyed making this. I think it's pretty obvious by looking at this that I picked up some skills and got a new camera along the way!

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Another Before and After blog hop

Just got home last night and have been terrible about keeping up here, things will slow down now, I think!

Here is my before and after for the week.

SOOC: Actually I think it looks pretty cute like this, Mac trying to sit at the big table with the big kids.


After: It didn't necessarily need these edits, but I just messed around a little until I found a look that I thought was interesting.


I didn't crop it, I tried, but actually thought it looked better un-cropped. My question is, do you think the gingerbread house is cluttering the shot? I feel like it sort of just blends in, but I'm wondering what others would do...

Before and After Blog Hop

Been away from the blog for way too long, I promise soon a lengthy post about Disneyland, including lots of pics (ok, I can't really promise anything right now...)
I thought I'd go ahead and play along with Pixel Perfect's Before and After this week.


Before. We were just messing around and I snapped a few pics of the kids. This looked yucky to me SOOC, but I thought I saw some potential...


I must say that I think this is lovely. My little Mac is 18 months old already!


Here is what I did (if I remember correctly)
First I tweaked the color a bit using magic seesaw, mostly to tone down some yellows. Then I used Everday Elements Deep clean 1 to pop and brighten the eyes. I also evened out skin tone a bit. Then I ran Everday Elements Florida action tweaked the layers a bit. Then I felt it really needed a good crop, and I think the crop is the best part of the edit:)

Indoors

In the midst of preparing for Christmas, and a trip to Disneyland next week, I'm feeling a little swamped. I haven't had as much time to mess with editing photos, let alone take a ton of new pics. I have been trying to get better at taking some photos inside the house, because this time of year, the weather is just kind of, well, blech. I was trying the light in our family room and I think this might be just the right spot to set up a little "studio".

Charlotte:


And Miss Evelyn:



PS: It's funny that I didn't tell the girls to pose any certain way, yet they are in nearly the exact same positions!

sepia

Decided to enter Photo Freak's sepia challenge. I don't actually often edit in sepia, and as you can see it isn't completely sepia, I experimented by adding some sepia tones and also left some color in, but I think this is a lovely pic!

Update

I bet you thought I may never post again:) This time of year gets so busy and I upgraded to a desktop and it's taken awhile to get up and running. I had a fun (but cold) time taking some photos of a friend's kids on Saturday and as promised, here is a little preview of these two gorgeous little ones. We didn't get to do as many as we wanted and couldn't stay outside that long because it was a brisk Seattle morning. A little too brisk for the kids (and frozen fingers aren't so good for snapping pics), I think we got some really nice shots and I think we all had fun!

Taylor (little beauty)


And Gavin (hello, watch out ladies!)



Together (so cute)


I hope you like them Adriana, there are lots of others that I'm working on too!