Friday, January 22, 2010
Photo Friday ~ 3 ~
This is a photo of one of the little girls that I babysit. She has just started to clap and it's the cutest thing ever. I have my own personal cheerleader. She claps while I'm feeding her as if she's saying, "Great job, Shawna, I love you so much for feeding me!". She claps when I get my camera out as if to say, "Wow, you're so talented, keep it up!". I love her, she's such a happy little thing. That's why I love this picture. It really captures her true smile and happy, friendly spirit. I also like how soft her skin looks, but yet her eyes still look glossy and wet.
I thought this week I'd add a little information about how I arrive at the final product of a nice photo. I don't have photoshop so I don't do a whole lot to change them from the original, but I am always interested in what other people do to change their photos. This one started out so-so. I loved her expression so I decided to work with it. The color version was too distracting because there were some very colorful toys in the background. So, I changed it to black and white. A little too stark, not much warmth. So I used the "warmify" button on the application that I use which is Picasa 3. It's free to download so if you aren't using anything to edit your photos, check it out! The warmify gives it what is similar to a sepia feel, but without so much brown. I think it's now about as good as it's gonna get until I can save up for a new computer and photoshop. Hopefully that will happen sometime in 2010. For now, though, I think it's good that I don't have it since it is forcing me to really learn to use my camera's settings to improve my photos so that I don't need to do as much editing later. At least that's what I'm telling myself to get me through...
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Love the post & of course love the picture! Good work, friend!
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