MCP Actions Giveaway

Hey everyone! ‎MCP Actions is having an amazing give away! One lucky person will be the owner of an ipad2. MCP Actions has some of the most amazing photoshop actions ever! They transform a photo by bringing out the colors, and making your image "pop" without making it look fake. To enter go to their site HERE (contest ends Sunday evening)And because a post is always better with a photo, here is one that I edited using MCP's free MiniFusion Action. :D

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No Posts :(

So everyone, sadly I have missed two weeks of project 52 :( and I decided that I just need to take a break. I just got married :D May 21st, to my best friend in the whole wide world! I am now Britney Emilie Wilson!(See some photos HERE!) May 24th I started my new job and the summer semester at college started (taking 2 classes) so I have been busy with new things, new responsibilities, and new assignments and blogging has not been a top priority. I wanted to blog about this not that you thought I fell off the face of earth ;P So I am taking a few weeks from blogging until things aren't so crazy, I really wish I could keep up with it but other things take priority over this. I hope to be posting again soon, lots of love to all you followers! (wow just checked and saw that I have 30! woo-hoo:)

Britney Emilie Wilson :D

(And because all posts are better with a picture ;)

Week 19

19/52

Sooo I'm late in posting again, but hey I'm getting married THIS WEEKEND!!!! :D So I've been a tad bit busy ;P Well I need to get my beauty sleep, so goodnight and enjoy!

Maria Elizabeth Wenz

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Week 18

18/52

So time totally got away from me last week, it's been crazy  so week 18's photo isn't that spectacular. To share with family & friends that don't live near us our apartment I took photos and put them into a panorama so they could see the room as a whole. So here is one of those shots I did not use a trip pod, just stood steady, swiveled, and clicked ;)And this is actually a screen shot of that photo because blogger is not letting me load the original ;P PS (photo-merge does a wonderful job of stitching photos together). So sorry to say this is all for this week but I may have some newborn photos for this week (week 19) ;D

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Week 17

17/52

Okay so I'm posting WAAAAAAAYYY late (a whole week, but this was taken during week 17!!!) I'm trying to do a few posts this evening so I won't write too much more, plus you are here just to see the photograph right? ;) This was taken at my dear friends graduation open house, oh the joy of completing high school. (The photo below this one is just to explain what it is they are cheering for! ;)

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Motherhood at iheartfaces

Happy (late) Mothers Day to all you moms out there. This weeks theme at iheartfaces is Motherhood. I was looking through photos and found this one to post. This photo expresses motherhood to me, mom is always there watching out for you, watching over you, with a selfless love. I can't wait until I get to be a mother one day :) 

Click on the camera below to head on over to iheartfaces and see more "Motherhood" photos!!!

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Soft & Sweet at iheartfaces

Well hello again, it's been awhile since I've posted an entry for iheartfaces(been a bit busy). I really wanted to post one for this week, hence I am staying up late to post it ;) To me this photo is soft, and little blown kisses are oh so sweet! After taking the shot I was bummed that it was blurry but I love the soft effect it gave the photo :)

Nienna's Kiss

Click on the camera below to see more "Soft & Sweet" photos.

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Week 16

16/52

Sorry I'm posting late again :P (see this is why I couldn't do a Project 365) With the school semester coming to an end, finding an apartment & moving stuff in for Ryan, and wedding planning (ONLY 25 MORE DAYS!!!!) I've been a bit busy ;P But I'm loving every minute of it. I shot my first engagement session on Sunday (week 16) here is a collage I made with some of the photos :)(more photos from the session to come ;)

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Week 15

15/52

Sorry it's late again, no time to write much sorry, crazy busy with school and wedding planning!

Macro Shot :D

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Week 14

14/52

Whoa! What! Early! Well since I was posting the last one late and I knew what one I was gonna use for this week (one that I took today) I thought I'd post it while I was on here ;) Fun experimenting with some photoshop :D

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Week 13

13/52

Sorry I'm posting late, busy week again. My cousins are here from Japan because of all that's been going on over there. We went to the science center last week (week 13) they had lots of fun and I had some fun too taking some neat photos ;)

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Slice of Life @ iheartfaces

Sooooooooo, I just realized that the challenges are open for entries on Sunday and Monday now :'C which means I missed it >:/ man! *ugh* oh well.... here's my post anyways.

 This weeks theme is a "Slice of Life". It was hard to choose a photo, I have tons of candid shots (I just love 'em) But this one really felt like a "slice" to me. This is my fiance and a little girl that goes to our church. I've known her since she was born and I babysat them frequently. She got to know Ryan (my fiance) through me and she loves him a lot. Whenever he's seen he gets a great big hug. We were downtown handing out free water one hot summer day and on our way back to the car she got a fun ride on the cooler ;) This is a slice of life I will always remember. I love watching Ryan interact with little kids, boy I can't wait to one day have some little munchkins of our own. :)

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Click on the camera below to see other entries!

Week 12

12/52

whew another week that has flown past!!! I'm really sorry I haven't been able to write more but hey photos are better to look at than the words right? So I guess it's good to keep it short sometimes ;)

This photo was taken for my Studio class the assignment was "food and beverage" and my amazing fiance (who is in the Culinary Arts program at the same college I go to) made this especially for me and this assignment :) thanks love!

Filet Mignon 

Have a great week everyone!

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Week 11

11/52

Hey week 11 just in time ;) no time to write much but here is this weeks photo :D

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Panorama Photo :D (Pikes Peek)

First time making a panorama in photoshop :) worked out pretty well! :D

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Couldn't wait to share (HDR)

On vacation for spring break, really should get to bed and get sleep (have more photos to take tomorrow ;) but I really wanted to share this photo with you. I absolutely love it! I can't believe how well it turned out. I love HDR :D This is a waterfall by Spook  Cave in McGregor Iowa.

Exposure 0

+

Exposure -1 

+

Exposure +1

=

HDR

After a few more tweaks the final product!

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Week 10

10/52

Sorry, late again, but it was taken during week 10! 

( So I'm not cheating :D )

Glass on Glass

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Sun Flare at iheartfaces

I love sun flare! But it can be tricky, here's a favorite photo from this summer that turned good :D Have a great spring break everyone!

Click on the camera below to view more sun flare photos :)

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Week 9

9/52

Sooo this is late :P Oh man I had a busy week last week :/ and I totally spaced project 52!!!! *ahhh* Thankfully I took 3 photos last (week 9) yes THREE!! With my little point and shoot :/ but I edited it and now it's awesome!!! I don't know how well it would actually print because I cropped it quite a bit, but it looks great on the computer, and at least I got a photo for week 9! *whew* so here it is (following it is the before and after photo too) ;)Have a great week! 

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Week 8

8/52

It's late, I should go to bed, but I wanted to post this weeks photo before the week is over this time ;P I absolutely LOVE this photo, it's my new favorite. She's such a cutie! My friend helped me out with a photo assignment (hands) for my studio class and when I was done shooting that I took a few infant photos for her :D I've done newborns but not so much infants it was great cuz I got the cutest expressions and her oh so pretty blue eyes.

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Anything but a face at iheartfaces

Man I'm posting early! ;) This week at iheartfaces the focus has to be on something other than the face. This photo immediately popped into my mind. My favorite thing about it is that the focus is on her cute little toes but she's still in the photo. :)

Click on the camera below to see the other entries for this week!

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Fit-it Friday #88

Found some time this week to edit this weeks photo. 

This week I used camera raw & one PS action.

Here is the lovely photo we have to edit this week, thanks Angie!

Alrighty, here's what I did...

Camera Raw

BASIC TAB

Blacks +5

Brightness +50

Contrast +50

Clarity +30

Vibrance +20

DETAIL TAB

Noise Reduction

Luminance: 50

Luminance Detail: 50

EFFECTS TAB

Post Crop Vignetting

Style: Highlight Priority

Amount -10

Midpoint 50

Feather 50

Photoshop (CS5)

Sharpend eyes to make them pop

Removed red spot from arm

Used PW's “Seventies” action at 40%

And that's it! Quickest fix-it yet :D

Here is the finished product.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

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Week 7

7/52

Here it is (finally) sorry it took me so long. I went on a weekend trip with my Mother, Sister, and Fiance to Sioux City to visit my Grandparents and to take photos for my Travel Photography class. So I had a lot of photos to load, convert, and now to edit. This is the first photo from the weekend that I have edited, and I love it. This is my Fiance and me :) we had to follow a path to get to the location that I needed and we weren't sure if we were going the right way or how far it would be. But we found it, thank goodness :D I quite enjoyed walking arm in arm through the woods on a crisp winter morning with the one that I love :)

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Phone Photo Challenge at iheartfaces

For this weeks contest we're supposed to enter a photo that we took with a phone. My phone's camera is SO bad. It's ridiculous.  This was the best photo I could find <3

Click on the camera below to see more phone photos!

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RED at iheartfaces

This weeks theme is the color red. 

I immediately thought of this photo ;)

Happy Valentines Day!! :D

Click on the camera below to see more RED photos.

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Week 6

6/52

Hey look I'm posting on time ;D this week I'm posting a photo that I took for my studio class. The assignment was to take a picture of a person, without the person being in the picture. I chose to take a picture of my older brother, Addison Charles Hudson, who was still born. 

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fix-it Friday #86

Hey everyone, I think this is the second fix-it Friday I have done. On the last one I used a lot of actions so this time I decided that I wouldn't use any. So that anyone who has access to Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw could edit this photo the same exact way. Okay here we go. 

This is the original photo by Rachel from Savor Photography

(Thanks Rachel!)

It's dark, dull, and I want to see more of her face so in the "Basic" tab of camera raw here's what I did. 

Basic

Exposure +0.70

Recovery +10

Fill Light +10

Blacks +5

Brightness +50

Contrast +40

Clarity +20

Then I used the crop tool and here's what we get.

Now the light is a bit intense and it's a little noisy so I switched over to the next tab "Tone Curve" and did the follow

Tone  Curve

Highlights -13

Lights -13

Darks +13

Shadows +13

Then I went to Noise Reduction under the "Detail" tab

Detail

Noise Reduction

Luminance 80

Luminance Detail 80

And here's what we get :)

Lookin pretty good but I want to polish it off a bit. To start the red in her hat has way too much contrast, so much that her hat doesn't have much detail. To fix this I used the adjustment brush that you can find along the top of the camera raw window.  (I wanted to make her eyes pop a little more so I used the adjustment brush for that too.)

Adjustment Brush 

Turned saturation to -18 and brushed over her hat 

Turned Sharpness to +40 and brushed over her eyes

Next I went into the "Effects" tab to add a slight vignette.

Effects

Post Crop Vignetting

Amount -25

Midpoint 50

Feather 50

And lastly I opened the image in photoshop to do one last thing, I used the healing brush tool to touch up a line under her left eye (your right), 3 small spots on her face and a small stain on her white shirt.

And we're done! Here is the finished product! :D

I hope you enjoyed my fix-it :) 
please feel free to give me any comments, pointers, or criticism. 

Thanks!

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