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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Week 5

5/52

Well this weeks photo is no very impressive but it is the only one I could find from this week that was decent.

 "Breakfast in Bed"

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Week 4

4/52

Okay so I am really late in posting for week four, 

but this photo was taken during week four (so I'm not cheating) 

This is the State Capitol of Iowa taken with a twist :)

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