Archive for August, 2009

Messy Face Turned Clean

This was one of those days when I felt like taking some pictures. So I picked up my little model and went to the backyard. I took a couple of pictures, but this ended up being one of my favorites. If you look close enough to the first photo (SOOC), you’ll some food around his mouth because I snatched him up right after dinner.

To fix this I used the Heal tool to erase the food and clean up his shirt. Then I added some contrast and vignette to add color. It’s just that easy.

Me & the Boys

When you’re behind the camera, you rarely get the chance to be in any pictures. So on a lazy day when I was out BBQing with the boys, I broke out the tripod and got to snapping. It’s hard to get them to look forward, especially when no one is out there to get their attention. But here’s one I was able to get before they looked away.

For post-processing, I cropped it to a portrait and added some contrast. I also edited my knee to get rid of the morning ash on it. It was early and were dealing with fire and meat. No time for lotion

Conference Fun

I’m a big fan of action photos. I took these photos at a youth conference our church had in Waxahachie, TX. Chaperoning a group of youth boys is a lot of work, but I had fun and got some pretty cool shots of them in action. The indoor basketball shots were the hardest because of the low light and fast movements. I had to set the ISO to about 800 and used an exposure of about 1/100s. Of course I had to increase the light in post-processing to make the photo a little brighter.

Gone Fishing

My son kept bugging me about going out fishing again, so I took him back out a couple of weeks ago. The first time we went he caught something, so I guess he expected it to happen again. Well it didn’t and he was a little disappointed when we had to go. He didn’t realize this was a lesson in patience and casting. I didn’t put a hook on his reel because I wanted to see how he did when it came to casting on his own. He did pretty good, but I’m happy I didn’t put the hook on because he would have hooked himself a lot that day (just call it fatherly intuition). While we were there, I captured some photos of him doing his thing.