Fall Family Pictures, take 2

More more more!

{Yes, of course, she still does this.}

{My favorite!}
Did Megan do a fabulous job? I love them, and I am so excited to have them printed, hang them all over our house, maybe even make a mini! Thank you so much Megan!!

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Family Fall Pictures

I am so excited to share with you some recent family pictures we had taken! Our good friend Megan, recent owner of a sparkly new dSLR, agreed to take some pictures of our family while the leaves were still so pretty! We went to our local university, where both Rust and I graduated, to have [...]

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October Road

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Picture Practice: In the Autumn

Oh, dear. What must Summer think? Summer knows she’s been my favorite, year after year… her bright & vivid days, warm breezes, long-lasting sun. She has so many great qualities.

But what must she think, now?– how much I have to fight my urge to declare over and over and over again–that I love Autumn! Her [...]

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This is Real Life

I know I always show the glamour shots (ha ha) on here, so I thought it’d be fun to show you some “real life” pictures that are, well, real life. Not posed, not sweet, not super edited… just real life, the real moment, blurry or dark or otherwise.

This is why I did not do Anna’s [...]

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Photo Fun: Vintage with Picnik

While I typically like my photos in bright, vivid colors, sometimes it’s fun to have that “vintage” feel to certain pictures: faded, slightly sepia or brown, with a lower contrast. I realized that Picnik has several ways to achieve some different vintage-feel to your photos.
1) 1960’s Vintage

Picnik comes with this effect: under Create –> Effects, [...]

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Photo Fun: Black & Whites on Picnik

I wanted to give you a step-by-step on achieving a good black & white (and not just gray) photo using Picnik. 

This is my original. And this is after…

So why not use just the regular black & white feature that Picnik offers? Here is what would the picture would look like if I just did a [...]

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Photo Fun: Picnik

It can be difficult to always have the perfect lighting for every picture — especially for an amateur like me! But I have learned that many great photos lurk beneath not-so-perfect pictures, if you take the time to edit them! I have used Adobe Photoshop Elements for a long while now, and I love using [...]

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Fall Pictures, take 1

I know I mentioned yesterday that our fall picture-taking playdate was postponed, but I had forgotten to say we had a first attempt last week before the leaves really began to change. That experience was enough to make me fully realize that I do not have what it takes to photograph moving & walking babies for [...]

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Picture Practice: Playdate I

It literally has been “picture practice” for me lately! I mentioned that a good friend recently purchased a dSLR camera, and she has been bringing it to our weekly playdates so we all can have a chance to play with her new camera and try it out! I have been meaning to show you some of [...]

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