We Heart Kisses

This weeks challenge at i heart faces is Kisses!

The picture I chose is in memory of my Grandmother who just passed away on February 4, 2010.

This past Christmas my sister and her family, my mother and my grandmother all came over to my house to celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. We had a feeling that this would be our last Christmas with our grandmother so, the camera was out and I was taking a ton of pictures so I could cherish the moment. The picture I'm entering is a picture of my grandmother and my son Aric. I saw, out of the corner of my eye, Aric leaning in to give his great-grandmother a kiss so I got ready and just snapped away. I'm so glad I have this picture to look back on.

Please take some time and head over to i heart faces for some more "kissy" photos in honor of Valentine's Day!!

{Texture} is this weeks challenge

At i heart faces this week we have been given the challenge of TEXTURE! You can take a picture of texture or add it in your post-processing.

I did two pictures and put them on facebook to let my friends decide which one to post.

And the winner is:

I hope you like this picture as much as my friends and I do!!!

This was the 2nd time I've worked with textures on my own (without a tutorial). I'm pretty proud of the final product :)

Feel free to go take a look and be inspired at some AMAZING photos over at i heart faces!!

i heart faces week 3: { We Are Family }

For this weeks challenge over at i heart faces it's all about family!

I decided to enter the picture I took of my Father and all of my five children on Christmas Day. This picture is far from perfect, but it's my family :) Each facial expression on each of my children represents their personalities perfectly. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect picture....well I could have but, it just wouldn't have happened, lol!!

Please go visit i heart faces for some more wonderful family photos ♥

I did it!

I have seen many pictures with all these textures added to them and I have always wanted to try it, but wasn't brave enough. Well, I found an awesome tutorial on the i heart faces blog by Michelle. She did an excellent job taking you through every step and she provided me with the photo and all the textures. I was so proud of myself when I was done. My final product looked like Michelle's final product...I did it!! Take a look at the before and after photo and then head over to Michelle's website, OpenScrapbook, for some more great tutorials.

Before

After

Having some photoshop fun

I have been looking over some of the tutorials I've been saving from this fabulous blog, CoffeeShop. I was really interested in the layering masks tutorial so that's the one I chose to do. I experimented with two of Lauren's photos I took on Monday. Let me know what you think. I appreciate ALL feedback. Thanks!

Before

After

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After

My next adventure will be with textures! I love the pictures I've seen with them and I'd really like to incorporate them in my photos. Now I just have to find the time :-)

Week 2: Photo Challenge { Best Face Photo }

The rules:
You need to enter the best face photo you have taken in the month of December 2009 or the very beginning of January 2010. It can not be of a silhouette or of a person far away. This photo has to be up close and personnal :-)

So, the photo I chose was one that I took of my daughter Madison outside the day after we had our first snowfall, December 6, 2009. It was her first time outside in the snow and she was 7 months old. She had a great time until she decided to give herself a whitewash :-( If you'd like to take a look at the whitewash picture you're more than welcome to head on over to my family blog, just click here.

For some more beautiful best face photos head on over to i heart faces. Trust me, the photos are AMAZING!! There are some really talented people over there.

**Happy 1st Birthday**

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i ♥ faces: {Constructive Feedback}

Normally on i ♥ faces they have a fix it friday, well they've decided to take a break and have a constructive feedback friday.

I am submitting a picture I took of my daughter a few days ago. I really like the picture but there are some things that are just bothering me about the picture.

Here it is SOOC:

f-stop: 5.6

exposure: 1/60

ISO: 800

focal length: 55mm

I did some editing to the picture in Photoshop CS3, but I'm not 100% pleased with either.

Here they are:

I want the colors to "pop" but not the pink in her hair and also she looks a little pale in the picture. Her cheeks also look a bit rosey. I'm thinking that the pink in her hair & the rosiness in her cheeks are from her dress?.

In this picture I thought the whites were too bright. Maybe this is a good picture and I just don't have a good eye?

I appreciate you all taking the time to give me some feedback, good or bad, on my picture.

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