Took this one awhile ago, but I like it so I am posting it. She decided she wanted to watch a little TV, but needed somewhere to rest her head; Gertie was the closest thing.
loving the Doggy
Took this one awhile ago, but I like it so I am posting it. She decided she wanted to watch a little TV, but needed somewhere to rest her head; Gertie was the closest thing.
Caitlyn's Birthday
Thought I would post up a few shots from Caitlyn's Birthday. The first 2 are of the smash cake and cupcakes my wife and sister-in-law made, and many people helped decorate. The last one is right after she got her slide from Grandpa Calcut.
One of the bikes
Well I am rather strapped for time today. I am working on my fathers bike so I figured I would post a pic of one of the bikes I owned. Unfortunately I had to sell this one about a month ago. This post is also test of the new layout. Let me know what you think...
Jaiden...2 years old
Last spring I was asked to take pictures of my godson because his parents couldn't get him to sit still for studio photo sessions. I took about 150 shots and we had a lot of good ones. Here are a couple of photos from that day....
Best Picture in the World
This could quite possibly be the best picture in the world. Well if anything the best picture I have ever taken in the world. Below are 2 pics the first is the original cropped to eliminate some unwanted background items, and the other is edited by a friend. Maybe you can see what was changed; maybe you can't.
...more photos of Caitlyn
These are pictures at the same place roughly around the same time. The difference with these is I had a little fun with colors, cropping, and all sorts of other things.
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| This was taken in front of a barn in the shade. I boosted the colors way up, tilted the picture and cropped a lot. I was using a 200mm zoom so I got in as far as I could and there was still a lot of background needing removal. |
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| This was taken at a building that is suppose to resemble an old train station. This was in a walkway between two buildings. Again, I was zoomed in pretty far, but still had a lot of background needing removal. I cropped the photo and boosted the vibrance and saturation WAY up. I also increased the contrast, fill light, and exposure. |
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| This was taken at the same park, but in a different play area my wife found after our first visit. She was sitting on the play set just about to go down the slide and I managed to get this one. This has been cropped, the fill light and exposure have been increased. I also boosted the black levels in an attempt to make things pop. |
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| I really like this one. Same play area as the previous, but this time in a swing. I took, probably, 25 - 30 shots and this is the only one that came out with her smiling, and nothing distracting in the background. I boosted the color, the exposure, added a vignette, and increased the black levels. |
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| I went crazy with this one, maybe even overboard, but that is what I was going for ;). I was trying to boost the colors as much as possible, but still maintain a proper skin tone. I also added a vignette. Note... The sky is actually gray dingy clouds. The colors were boosted so much it pulled out some blue tones. I really like this one. Too bad we couldn't get one with her looking at the camera. Apparently the ducks were way more interesting. |
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| This one wasn't edited all that much, but I had to raise the temp in order to get rid of some of the blue from the overcast skies. I like this one because I managed to get the ducks in the background. |
