Fix it Friday

It has been a long time since I have participated in a Fix it Friday at http://www.iheartfaces.com/ but this was such a great photo and I love senior portraits so I thought I would give it a try.

I did all of my edits in Photoshop CS2
First I LOVE color so I ran Pioneer Womans action Fresh & Colorful, then I adjusted my color balance and added some red and removed some blue.
I than ran the Pioneer Womans action Lovely & Ethereal. 
I added a sunshine in the left corner.
I sharpened slightly and then cropped.

I couldn't resist doing an few other edits so I also did a black and white version and a seventies version.

Happy Friday Everyone!

Week 23 • Play Photo Challenge

This weeks challenge at iheartfaces is to show off playing.  I have 100's of photos of my kids playing.  I decided to enter this one from memorial weekend.  We went camping and the weather had just been awful with rain, no sun and wind.  We woke up one morning and the weather was finally nice!  Before we could even get our twins dressed they were out by the water playing in it with their jammies and slippers on.

As always there are a lot of amazing photos to view so head on over to iheartfaces, just click the logo below.

Week 22 - "Barefoot Week" Photo Challenge!

I have not participated in an I ♥ Faces photo challenge for a while but when I saw this week was about feet and shoes I had the perfect photo.  I love that it is helping raise awareness for Soles 4 Souls.  I just took this picture of my twins for their 2 year old photos.  They both had their hands in their pockets and were sporting their new outfits and shoes and I thought it was so cute.

As always don't forget to check out all the other awesome photos at www.iheartfaces.com.

Week 6 - “We Heart Kisses” Photo Challenge!

I realized right before I was about to upload this photo that to some it might look like the dog has bitten him and he is screaming but it's the way my son gives kisses.  He likes to give the dog kisses and he lets the dog lick his face.  I personally do not like the doggy kisses on my face but he likes it.

 

Week 4 - “Texture” Photo Challenge!

This weeks challenge I was not sure I would be able to come up with anything. I asked my hubs if he would let me take a few pictures of him (not usually a willing participant) and he said yes! I had heard about this old prison farm and wanted to go and check it out. I thought I might be able to find some cool textures in nature to photograph around. I did but it was kind of muddy so I took a few shots of hubs, kids and our dog. I didn't get the texture picture I was looking for so I found some cool textures and added them to this photo. I have never really used textures but they could become addicting.

Check out all the other AMAZING photos by clicking the logo below.

 

Week 3 - “We Are Family” Photo Challenge!

Wow looking through the other entries I am so inspired. I love i heart faces and how it has inspired me and help me grow in photography. I took this photo last summer of my best friends little girl and hubs. After what I have learned in the last several months I was able to go back and photoshop it and make it look even better. You can view the original here.

Please check out all the other amazing entries over at i heart faces. Click the logo below.

 

Week 2: Photo Challenge - “Best Face Photo”

I just took this photo this weekend. I was trying to get a photo of my son because I have taken a lot of my daughter lately but he just did not want to sit and look at me. While I was trying to take his picture my daughter walked through our photo and I snapped one picture of her and it happened to be my favorite. So here is another picture of my daughter for i heart faces.

Click on the logo to see all the other amazing entries. 

 

Week1: An "I Heart Faces" Photo Challenge!

First congrats to i ♥ faces on their one year celebration. This week I wanted to come up with something really creative for this challenge but then my son and I got really sick with a cold and I just didn't feel like doing much of anything. I managed to get the i ♥ faces logo printed, cut out and taped onto some of my kids blocks. I then took my daughter out into our backyard and got a few photos. I look forward to seeing everyone entries.

I took this photo last weekend and just photoshopped in the logo.

I love to get feedback so feel free to leave me comments.

I am submitting these photos into the I Heart Faces logo photo contest. By entering, I am granting I Heart Faces LLC permission to consider my photo for use in the marketing and promotion of their website.


 

Week 51 - "Hilarious Outtakes" Photo Challenge

This weeks challenge over at i ♥ faces is hilarious outtakes. I love this theme. I usually erase a lot of my outtakes but when I started to go through my pictures I realized I still have a bunch and then it was hard to narrow it down, luckily this week we get to post up to 5 pictures.

This is my daughter when she was about 7 months old. Her hair stood straight up it was so funny. I kind of miss that static look. This expression is just so funny.

We were playing on the trampoline this summer and I was taking pictures of the twins of course. Jayse got really close to my camera and gave me this face. It instantly became one of my favorites.

I wanted to get a picture of the twins in overalls in this bucket. I set them in there and could not get them to smile. This outtake turned into one of my favorite photos.

I was trying to get a picture of my daughter in this chair and for the most part she did pretty well until the end she just would not stay in it and laid on the ground.

This is our visit to Santa this year. I knew the twins would probably cry but I expected nothing like this. We sat Jaelee on Santa and she was ok there, she didn't like it but she was ok. Then we tried to put Jayse on Santa - he started kicking, screaming and rearing back. Santa told us he could not sit on his lap because he was kicking too much. Once Jaelee saw his reaction she had enough and got down. Greg tried to keep Jayse by Santa so I could just get one picture and here it is.

 

Week 49 - “Pets Only!” Photo Challenge

This week over at i ♥ faces the photo challenge is all about pets.  I have looked at several of the entries and there are a lot of great pictures of pets.  Please head on over there and check them out - but be warned you will loose hours with out even noticing it.

Now to my entry of course I had to enter in our adorable dog Bo.  I had a hard time choosing the photo because I have a lot of cute photos of Bo with our kids but I settled on this one so he could have this photo moment all to him self. He really is the perfect dog for our family.  He has been a great hunting companion for Greg and a great friend and protector for the kids.  He is calm, lovable, adorable, and just plain fun.  We love you Bo!

 

Fix it Friday

I love this weeks photo over at i ♥ faces , it reminded me of high school.  In art class every year our school and many others entered into a poster contest for one of the local rodeos.  We would scour over images like this of cowboys riding bulls, horses and wrestling steer - then we would put the image on canvas and paint it.  The winning painting became that years poster.  I never won the poster but one of my paintings did get chosen for that years childrens tee shirts and I was featured on the front page of the local newspaper.  Ahh memories...anyway I thought this photo was pretty great all ready.  I played with cropping it but in the end I liked the original crop.  I wanted to keep my edits simple and not over do it so I just adjusted the levels, curve, added some saturation, sharpened a bit and added a vignette.

 

Week 48 - "Sweet Dreams" Photo Challenge

This week over at i ♥ faces the photo challenge is Sweet Dreams. I immediately thought of this photo that I took when my twins were about a month old. It is hard to believe that they are all ready a year and half old.

To see many more sleeping beauties head over to i ♥ faces

I Heart Tooshies

I took this photo of my brother a couple of weeks ago when we did his senior pictures photo shoot.  I thought it would be great for the i ♥ faces photo challenge this week - which this week is all about Tooshies.

Head on over to i ♥ faces to see a lot more tooshies!