More Playing....

Found this great site that is not only good reading but she inspires me to play more with my photos. This first one was a really washed out photo to begin with and it didn't turn out as great as I would have liked, but it's all part of the learning process.

I used quite a few actions on this one.
* Pams Radial Blur
* Pams Vignette
* Cropped to straighten photo
* Veronica Ponce Brighten eye colour
* Veronica Ponce Bright eye whites

Then played with this one of Nathan. Love the Urban Acid Action.
And this one uses my wide angle lense, which I NEVER use because I love my 28-80 lense and use IT all the time. However, it died the other day and is waiting for a replacement (on it's way from ebay!). So I have been forced to use my 18-50 lense and this day I really enjoyed it. Amazing what you discover when you are forced to!

This photo has been altered with:

* Veronica Ponce Black Vignetting
* Thomas Neimann Tones

Australia Day

Australia Day - Celebrate being lucky

New Actions

Downloaded some new free actions from Action Central and had a quick play.

Uses Katerine Eismann's Fill Flash action and Jodi's MCP Free Gallery Frame.
Both these use Urban Acid Action and Jodi's Gallery Frame. Font is Georgia.

My Sweet Boy and Overlays

Purchased some overlays from Pink Ink Studios today. LOVE 'EM.

Scrapbooking Pages

Jackson when he lost his first tooth.

Journalling reads: Imagnation! What goes through a boys mind when he dresss up like this? Samuel went through a stage of dressing up like this to play in the yard. On went the backpack and away he would go.Nathans Curls. Just love 'em.

Long Jetty

Had a day to myself today. What fun! Went shopping at the second hand stores at Long Jetty, then went in search of the actual Jetty.

Wanted to play with the ISO settings and wide angle lense on my camera but it was the middle of the day and just a bit too sunny. Therefore, I couldn't see what the images looked like on the screen so I was basically in the dark until I got home. None of the photos turned out very well exposure wise (bad time of day to take photos!) but I did like the composition of this one.
So I played with it a bit and came up with these. This one has had the brightness and contrast adjusted. Bit more moody.This one has had the Hue, Saturation and Lightness played with. Interesting.And this one has had the curves played with to extremes. I really like this one....kinda funky.

Photo Shoot Fun

I had a friend come over last week to have some photos taken of her beautiful baby girl. While Kylie takes great photos herself, it is really hard to organise a baby and take the photo. So she enlisted my help (which I was stoked about) and we had some fun for several hours.
She was such a good baby. So many outfit changes and position changes and Ellie handled it beautifully. I love the fabric in these next photos.
I have five different designs in the fabric and even took photos of the boys on some of them.
I would love to do a photography course in the near future. I can't believe how much I enjoy it. It was great fun doing it with Kylie, because she 'gets it'. Having her into it as much as I was made it really easy to chop and change settings etc. Here is the beautiful Elizabeth again after we got her to sleep. Kylie really wanted one of her on her tummy, which we got eventually but it took ALOT of work....that girl doesn't like her tummy!
Can't wait until she is sitting up now. Will steal her away for another shoot!