good to Wow Week 16: SOOC – Friends/Family

This week’s theme is Friends/Family. Yaya came to visit this past weekend for the Easter holiday, and our little man was in rare form. I’ve never seen him show off the way he did. He has such a special bond with his Yaya, it is so sweet to watch. He was on the move all weekend, so this isn’t the sharpest picture, but its cute nonetheless.

Be sure to check out all the other friends/family shots here:

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ihf: Pet Week – Cindy

The favorite family dog – Sydney, or Cindy, she’ll answer to both with a ton of kisses.

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good to Wow! Week 15: Easter – Edit

Well, maybe I changed my mind on which photo to work on this week. I’ve learned my lesson, accept the feedback when you get it. So I did that and I’ve been working on this photo of the basket on his head. I’m pretty happy with my edit, but I’m going to still think on my mom’s comment of wanting “more color” in the picture. There are some many different ways to go with it, I’m even happy with just the white balance edits only. Here is what I ended up with after playing around with things tonight:

LR: Custom white balance, cropped to 1×1
Photoshop: Ashley’s clean action – played around with the layers, brightened eyes, lighted red skin, Nelly Nero’s I Fake Film

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good to Wow! Week 15: Easter – SOOC

This week’s theme is Easter/Passover. Mimi sent us (or really just Jackson) a set of Resurrection Eggs. In the few moments he wasn’t testing out his arm by throwing them as far as he could across the yard, I got these SOOC shots. I think I’ll work mostly with the first one, but will hopefully have time to touch up all of them.

I think this is his way of asking for a bigger basket.

But who really needs a basket to carry eggs? It works great as a hat!

I think he’s channeling some Johnny Caron/Carnac in this one… “please be chocolate, please be chocolate”.

Discovering the cross within the egg. Bummer, no candy.

I’m looking forward to spending some editing time on these this week. If nothing else, they are a good practice photo run for the upcoming Easter weekend. Have a blessed Resurrection Week!

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ihf: wind (or lack thereof)

We made an attempt to fly a kite on one of the few breeezy-ish days here in SA. But, unfortunately, even Daddy can’t make the wind blow enough to make the kite fly. Well, we had fun trying :-)

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Week 14: Faith – Edit

Here’s my edits for this week’s photo – Faith:

And here is the play-by-play:
LR: Custom white balance
PS: Ashley’s clean action – played with the opacity and ‘type’ of layers
MCP High Def Sharpening
Added Text

And here is the SOOC to Final Edit compare.

I’ll say it again, but I’m loving having homework each week that gets me playing around with Photoshop. I am a learner at heart, so having that direction and guidance to follow has been a blessing.

Be sure to check out the other beautiful images of faith.

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Good to Wow Week 14: Faith – SOOC

This week’s theme is faith. The picture I have this week is of my day lilies. My day lilies are one flowering plant I know I can count on every Spring. It has survived my inattention, my mistakes, and when they begin to bloom early each Spring and then again every morning, I am reminded of this verse:

“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness”

Lamentations 3:22-23

I love every.single.word from those two verses. Isn’t it amazing how much power is contained in two short verses? May you also find something around you that reminds you of His Great Unfailing Love and Faithfulness offered to us each and every day, regardless of our state.

Here is my SOOC:

Be sure to check out some of the other examples of faith this week.

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i heart faces: shadows

so maybe all you can see is an oddly-shaped blackish blob… but I can see my sweet baby boy holding his Daddy’s hand, and that, my friends, is all that matters.

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