more wildflowers

A few more from the other day... These were processed with a new cross-processed action I made myself :) Hooray for efficiency!

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I took the opportunity today to shoot the wildflowers on the side of the road that leads to my parents house...

And here's where I was headed for my assignment:

bootsie & the park

Lil E love-love-loves these boots. Since she's had them over a year and she wears them 3-6 times a week, they must be close to either being too tight or falling apart. I will be sad when the time comes to say goodbye...

On another note: I love the park at the end of our cul-de-sac. I think it's gonna be a great summer, especially for Shels.

6th Annual Easter Egg Hunt

You gotta love the holidays if only for a reason to get together with those people you wish you could see more often... Thanks, Kathy, for another great party!

almost done!

I dunno 'bout you but after 3 egg hunts, I am ready for this holiday to be over!!! Here are two little guys from today's festivities. Happy Easter!

another disney birthday

It's a tradition... Happy bday, S!!! We love you!!!

Experiment

experimenting: p2, originally uploaded by studio138.

A little more experimenting... I think I'm gonna be happy to have saved my money. Although, I think I want to "bottle" some of the things I am doing ala my own actions for efficiency's sake...

I am really liking the vintage x factor. I was inspired by the fabulous work of Red Leaf Studios...

Custom Photography=Money Well Spent: Part 2

I've been working hard to become a more technically proficient photographer, resisting temptation to use any mode but Manual and striving to achieve proper exposure right in the camera using available light, proper shutter and aperture numbers, ISO, etc. just like a "real" or traditional photographer. I kinda began this photography business backwards, since I was really pretty good at using Photoshop to make my point&shoot images look like they were better than point&shoot images. But I was determined not to be one of those "shoot and fix it in PS" types...

So lately, I've become confident enough to actually spend some time on playing with some recent images, not to make them look "better" or "more professionally finished" per se, but to experiment with styles; have fun, if you will. There are so many great photogs out there selling actions and settings and although they may make the workflow a bit faster, I just can't bring myself to purchase them at this point. I just feel that it is buying someone else's style and I'm stubborn enough to want one of my own! Even if my style turns out to be similar to Kevin Kubota's Cross-Process or THe Boutwell's Magic Glasses, I will know that my styles originated in MY computer, in MY creative pea-brain :) Stubborn & cheap. THat's my story and I'm sticking to it...

The one at the bottom left is the original file, Straight Out Of Camera. I named the others as hints to myself about how I processed them.
TGIF! xxcris

Custom Photography is Money Well Spent

I found this awesome website that will explain a bit more why paying me or many other photographers to come out and take you photos is so much better than buying your own camera (even if it's the same one as the photographers!) and printing $2 8x10s at Wal-mart.

Case in point, my brother-in-law got married recently and did not hire a photographer. (In fact, it was such short notice, I couldn't reschedule a prior engagement to attend!) We had sent a gift and the thank you card came in the mail today with a photo of the 12 in attendance standing on the beach at sunset. All the people we so dark you could hardly make out their faces. And I only knew it was sunset because of the ugly yellowish line along the skyline...

I feel so bad that they have a photographer in the family [me]and this is probably one of the few photos that they have of this important day in their adult lives. Hopefully the 2 families can get together soon and at least take quality shots of the new baby...

windy

lil e is feeling much better today (thank goodness!) that headache-fever-flu is the worst! but we were able to hang out in the windy backyard for a while this afternoon and get some fresh air and a little sun...