Fix it Friday…?

Here it is Thursday night, and I’m browsing the internet while watching Big Brother After Dark… yah I know I have problems… haha, I should be watching the other gazillion things I have on the DVR that need to be watched! Back to what I was saying…

Browsing the internet and went over to iHeartFaces, where I haven’t been in FOREVER - and saw a new Fix It Friday, it’s fun so I thought I’d join in, I don’t do much in post processing anymore except a little adjusting all in camera raw - if I want to add a little texture or buttery black and white I will open in PS and do a little tweaking but as I’ve grown and learned a lot in the past year I’ve learned I like the natural/clean/crispness of a great exposure photo. So to get that, just a little exposure/temperature adjustment in Camera Raw :)

 

Original - what a CUTE little girl!

  I opened in Camera Raw and added a little warmth to the temperature and did a little exposure adjustment towards the brighter side.
 

Just simple and clean, just what I like.

Fix It Friday #42

I love this photo, and glad I could ‘get out of my box’ a little this week! Head over to iHeartFaces to submit your own version or just see other imaginations!

Original

My Fixes

 

I think this last one is my favorite, I like the angle and lighting of it - I just love how it turned out.

Fix It Friday Is Here Again

It has been sooooo long since I have participated in a iHeartFaces Fix it Friday. I’m so excited to be back! You should go over to iHeartFaces and spend a few moments browsing through the other creative ideas for the “fix”!

Original


My Fix

I adjusted the levels/curves to help it become a little more richer, and to help the parents stand out a little more in the background – to help with this also I cropped it so the focus is more on the children/family than the distracting feet/toys/rock/etc. I ran PW Seventies action to about 13%, just for a little hint of something different and a did a little edge burning.

Enjoy!

#2 Best Face Photo

This year I want to push myself and learn more as a budding photographer, one of those ways is to participate in the weekly challenges at iHeartFaces.

"My Best Face Photo"

Before and After, Then and now

So over at iHeartFaces this week it is the before and after theme, meaning post a picture of when you first started editing/photography and then one of your most recent edits/shoots, which I have taken literally so I have posted a before and after when I started and a before and after now, since I have kinda started backwards in this whole photography world of editing first and then learning photography later... when I'm in school and when I have a decent camera other than a point and click. So I choose the photo of my nephew from April 2007 which I was so proud of and then a photo from last weekend, which is so much better. It’s amazing that with a little practice and patience how much you can grown in a short {2 years} time frame. So introducing:

Then

Knowing what I know now, this picture was almost perfect in it's orginial state and just needed a little cleaning, not a complete overhaul - along with the non-knowledge of curves and trying to make everything look perfect I have learned to try and leave stuff more au natural...

Now

I still feel I am pulling too much contrast in so I'm trying to learn still the balance of just right and a little over done, but hey, I'm learning right? :) Any hints, suggestions, or ideas? On how to bring in some color and contrast but not so it looks so processed?

I wish I could get LiveWriter to post the pictures to my blog in a better quality then it does, anyone have any tips? So I half use flickr and half live writer which makes it a bit difficult sometimes... oh well.

Fix-It-Friday: Sweet Boy #23

{Original}

Click for more fantastic edits from this week!

{Edits}

{Fix-It-Friday: Pretty In Pink #17}

I'm a little late at doing this this week, but loved the photo and wanted to give it a couple of quick fixes. Love this picture :)

{Original}



{First Edit}



{Second Edit}



{Third Edit}



See all the other wonderful edits at iHeartFaces

Fix-It-Friday: My Shadow #12

This weeks photo
{click on each image for a larger view}

My fixes



Come play along!

Fix-It-Friday: Cooing Baby

I was so excited to do this picture (it might or might not have anything to do with how baby hungry I might or might not be)!

Original

My-Edits



I've never really done a tight crop and always feel strange cutting off parts of peoples faces but I thought I would try it and I think I like how it turned out. I need to play some more with croppings.

Head over to iHeart Faces to see some (I'm sure to be) amazing edits on this precious little one!

Self Portrait

This weeks contest topic is "self portrait". I took this image of myself (a couple weeks ago) in the mirror in our yellow bathroom I had to remove the color to remove the yellow overcast/glow.

To see lots more wonderful entries for this weeks contest head over to

Fix-It-Friday: #10

Before

Afters

I forgot to keep track of what I was doing until I was almost done...so it's just the edit this week.

Fix-It-Friday

I am new to this whole world of photography, but I am finding I am really enjoying it! I took this picture of my nephew:



And then edited with CS4 to get this:


It is very yellow and bright - how can I keep the brightness of the eyes without brigthening his whole face? I don't have a nice camera yet and have just started with editing - so I just use the normal factory settings on my little pocket sized Olympus (I know some of you are cringing...) one day I hope to have a Nikon...soon.

Thanks for the help!

EDITED PHOTO:

This is what I ended up with after using all of the wonderful advice I received!