Holiday Potraits

On the first Sunday of December we set out to do our annual Christmas card picture. It is always an interesting experience trying to get the perfect shot without really being able to see what the boys are doing. I won't tell you how many images with tongues sticking out or eyes not looking straight ahead I had to delete. But we got the Christmas card shot and a few others for our walls so I will call it a success (even if it did take a good part of our Sunday!)

The one good shot of all 3 boys together!

The one that made the Christmas card!

A Family of Photogs!

While we were doing work out in the yard on Saturday I had my camera so I could photograph our progress. Once we started burning the brush pile, I didn't want my camera nearby, so I gave it to David to hold. He asked me if he could take some pictures so I said sure. When I loaded the memory card I noticed he had taken over 300 pictures! He was a good big brother and shared a little with Shaun but most were taken by himself. Here are a few of the winners that I touched up a bit in Lightroom.

Photo by David

Photo by Shaun

Photo by David

Photo by David

Photo by David

Photo by David

Looks like we're going to be a family of photogs! I have been wanting to get some backdrops for a while, but after the last couple family portraits in front of our fireplace I went ahead and ordered three colored backdrops. I have a brown, white and black and after testing them out on the boys I am thrilled! The lighting in that room is awesome but the same foggy glass fireplace, not so much! Can't wait to try them out this weekend when we do our Spring family portraits!

Photoshop

Ever since I got the new camera I have been checking out some online tutorials on how to use the Adobe Photoshop program that my Dad installed onto my computer. I have taught myself how to do boarders, adjust curves, soften an image and last night I played around with color adjustments.

Here is my before and after of a picture I took of Evan in the shower last night!

Before


After


By adjusting the colors a bit, I was able to take some of the pinkness out of the picture! This photoshop stuff is pretty cool! There is so much more that I can do in the "digital darkroom" and I am looking forward to taking an actual class someday!

Photography by David!

OK so David is obsessed with my camera. Since he accidentally broke my last camera I don't like him playing with it. Unfortunately I have a bad habit of leaving it out and he goes around taking pictures.

As I was uploading the pictures from the camera this afternoon I noticed that there were 127 pictures to upload. Half of those were from the parade and Shaun's latest milestones - the other half were pictures taken by David.

I was impressed to find that some of them actually came out pretty good!

Taking a picture of Shaun


His Thomas the Train


Stuffed Nemo


His attempt to get his stuffed Mickey


Sully on the TV