Daddy and Tyler

again from the other day...

I am not totally happy with these ? too pale/yellow/not too sure!!

sooc (adj WB RAW in LR)

jess's warm vintage

 did skin colour adj then Jess warm vintage to see what diff it made. - ? too pale/yellow

  Lolly's Milk Chocolate B &WB

sooc CMYK adj to tutorial from smug mug. DO you think his hair is a bit yellow?

 

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Family

We hit the park again and got some family shots. and since this weeks theme is pp here is a couple using pioneer woman's actions and Jess's vintage actions - I love them. love the look of them - thanks ladies!

SOOC

Colourise by Pioneer Woman

  Jess' Warm Vintage action

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A drinking duck

Here is another pp photo from the other day. I haven't gotten around to downloading my photos of my card yet! This was done in lightroom using an old school preset.

 

 

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Family photos!

Ok I know that the theme is before and after but I think I am going to have to just do the before's today! I haven't had tome to play with these yet! we went to the park again today. man the boys are loving this going to the park every day (sometimes twice!) and my lovely's were happy to pose - well under instructions for nanna!

how are the catchlights and other lighting?

these are SOOC

 

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Out of my comfort zone part 2

We hit the botanical gardens today. My MIL is here and with such lovely weather we figured why not. Since the area is gorgeous and the family were amenable to letting me play with my camera I tried to again set some different shots up. My goals were to experiment using the flash. I was trying out my 75-300mm lens today so that I wasn't in the face of my kids trying to get the shots and trying to get more natural looking photos. I was happy with quite a few of these again today. I tried the fill flash and used the A mode again.

with fill flash

  

 

 

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this last photo I SOOOOOO over exposed it but this was about the best I could recover it. The B&W hid a few of the bad contrast/colour probs but since this is the only one I have of the two of them together it will have to suffice. I aim to try and play with it a bit more later!

Stepping out of my comfort zone part 1

This weekend I have been obsessing that my photography is not going well enough. Well I am improving. that is what I have to focus on, not the what if I had a new lens would I get better photos. So I put the question to the 2peas about how to get the most of my kit lens and on board flash. The responses were incredibly helpful and really helped me to try something different. So this morning as the sun rose I took Tyler to the park to try some different things including light, directing him to face the right way, certain areas to play etc. I was actually pleasantly surprised how easily he listened and tried for me. I got quite a few photos that I was really happy with and a few that I can see how to improve. here are a few (ok quite a few!)...

 

Too much light on his face unevenly as well as being a bit overexposed. I tried to get him to face into the sun - Not happening, then stepped the other way  - ? is this backlighting/side lighting

is this better? I am not sure if I like the haziness of this though.

I really like these. the only pp I did in LR was to change the WB to daylight

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  (adj vibrancy as well with this one)

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I shot mostly in Aperture mode today to try and get a feel for the light rather than full manual. These were all taken with the 75-300mm lens, f4.5, ISO 800, focal length 75mm with various shutter speeds over 1/125s . The only thing that I don't like is that I had to use ISO 800 to get the exposure into the centre as this seems to be quite grainy. The last photo was with the flash as well.

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Our little visitor

we had a visitor today to land on our clothes line.

 

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