Recently I took this photo of Addison:

I really love the photo but the ugly BRIGHT orange cone jutting out from her shoulder was a LITTLE distracting to me.

I’ve noticed that often times I can salvage a photo like this without doing heavy photoshop work just by converting it to black and white. Suddenly, the orange photo isn’t so obtrusive and distracting at all:

Filed under Addison, Before & After, Black & Whites, Dalton, Noah on May 17 | 2 comments

My family!!! Taking pictures of wet dirty kids: a mother’s dream come true!!

{my most beautiful sight in the world}

{childhood}

{all growed up, damn him}

{my baby boy}

{shelling: down and dirty}

{annoyed}

{looking cute, despite the glaring sun}

{water logged}

{dinner! Yes, he was really THAT happy about CRAWFISH!}

{I know this photo is all blown out and oversaturated to boot but I just love it anyway. I love these kids!}

Filed under Addison, Dalton, Noah, Teegan on May 16 | 3 comments

Last night I was playing around with Photoshop and tried a new technique for taking an otherwise dull photo and making the eyes pop.

1) use the mask tool to highlight just the eyes. I always choose everything inside the dark circle around the iris. I don’t include the dark circle itself.

2) demask to everything but the eyes are selected and then adjust saturation downward so that the picture is slightly desaturated.

3) select the inverse so that now the eyes are the only thing selected. Increase the brightness and contrast appropriately so the eyes really pop. The contrast between the desaturated picture and the brightly contrasted eyes will do amazing things to your photo!

I’m still trying to play around with this technique, I think this photo makes him look a little pale. But it’s a fun technique anyway.

Filed under Noah, Post-Processing on May 10 | 0 comments