I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

Every Fix-It Friday at IHF, I am always wondering if the photo this week will be a boy or a girl. Oh, I was so excited it was one of each... & Twins, too!! (I am still wanting to find some twins for my photo sessions, folks!!)

I am just looooooving this picture of these precious little 6 week-old twins, children to JaimeLee Candidly Grateful.

The original:

My edit:

I added some gaussian blur to the skin, converted the pic to CS's B&W (70%), adjusted some levels, added a 70% High Key, cropped, then added a frame. Very simple.

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I Heart Faces: "Yellow" Photo Challenge

This week's photo challenge theme at I Heart Faces is "Yellow."

What to do when you don't have a yellow house, yellow wall, yellow clothing, or big field of yellow flowers????!! Oh, and I have a boy... and boys don't generally wear yellow!

So, I looked around the house... and found this pale yellow laundry bag... placed my 8-month-old son in the yellow bag... and this is the result.

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I Heart Faces: Fix-It Friday

It's that time of the week again... our turn to learn new editing trick from other contributors to I Heart Faces and to play along as well.

This week's photo was submitted by Shelle from Mommy Can't Sing.

Here's the original:

My Fix-It #1... I adjusted levels, curves, colour balance, then added gaussian blur to soften the face. I then did some adjustments to lighten skin & eyes and give the skin some glow.

My Fix-It #2: I converted the pic to B&W but did some colourizing. Not to crazy about this one as there is so much noise on the pic that I wasn't able to remove.

Fix-It #3: I darkened the background, added a gradient and a texture (just for something different) then brought in some colour.

Fix-It #4: I like this one the best. It's basically the same as Fix-It #3 but I removed the texture then added some vignette & borders.

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I Heart Faces: Faces & Flowers

This week's photo challenge at I Heart Faces is "Faces & Flowers."

Last month was my husband's grandmother's 90th birthday. Her 8 children had a song sung while they presented their mother with roses. Grandma was very touched by this gesture.

I just love this photo of Grandma on her 90th birthday. I added 2 textures & a frame to give the photo an aged look.

Check out other great photo challenge entries here.

"Pick a Pic"

If you had to choose one of these photos as a 11"x14" photo + matting + 16"x20" frame, to match a large long hallway of nature-inspired colours, which one would you choose?????

Old United church by Cochrane, Alberta

East of Kananaskis country, Alberta

Haybales, west of Calgary, Alberta

Kananaskis country, Alberta (Aspen trees with bark "matting" then without a photoshop mat)

Waterton National Park, Alberta

I Won!

Well, it turns out that a photo I submitted for a photo display/contest at work over a year ago has won me some accolades! No big monetary prizes, but just a name to a photo. I did not even know there was a new"contest" at work for these submitted photos! From what my boss has told me is that the submissions were narrowed down to 8 photos & my church photo (below) came out on top. Yay!!

The church is an old United Church near Cochrane, Alberta. Photo taken in 2007 or 2008.

The photo below is copied from the email I received from work informing me that my entry will be used as an e-card.

I'll have to find the original church file as I just cleared thousands of photos off my computer recently.

In Memory of Baby Landyn

Sunday, May 2, I was called to take photographs of Baby Landyn. He arrived in this world 6 weeks early and for 3 days he was a little fighter. What a precious, beautiful little baby he was! My heart goes out to his parents & big brother during this difficult time.

It is such an honour to be a part of the organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.

If you would like more information, or if you would like to make donations, please contact Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.