May 17th, 2011

Wordless Wednesday: Lobster Bucket

One year ago this week, I took one of my favorite pictures of Spencer. Ever. Do you have a Wordless Wednesday post? I’d love to see!

April 5th, 2011

SITS Photo Challenge Day 2

I’m participating in the SITS Spring into Action Photo Challenge and the assignment for day 2 is pretty much to blog the photos we took yesterday, which I already did here. Also, there are some great photo editing tips in the daily post, so go check it out. To keep playing along, I took another set, which was the option for those of us who already blogged.

I snapped some pictures of Spencer in the swing, which is a little tricky with a point and shoot because the shutter speed is a little slow, I try to anticipate when he will be in the frame, but don’t always nail it. I though I would share two before and after editing shots and then the biggest dud. I believe in sharing and learning from mistakes. Also, it made me laugh. The photos in this post were edited with iPhoto.

Straight out of camera

Edited

I did a little cropping, mostly to take my shadow out of the corner. I’m very pleased that I captured the second swing and its shadow. I think it makes the picture a little more interesting. I sharpened it a tiny bit and upped the saturation to blue up the sky and green the grass. They got washed out by the sun being right behind us. (Taken about 9 am)

Straigh out of camera

Edited

I cropped 0ut the swing support and the edge of the tree, the smaller size left the angle of the fence looking crazy, so I straightened the picture. As a result, I lost some of the fun angle on the swing, but the picture made more sense.

Straight Out of Camera

Edited

Pretty subtle editing on this one: exposed it a little more, sharpened and adjusted the saturation up the tiniest of smidges. I liked the composition straight out of camera, so no cropping.

Now for the worst picture of the session:

Not good. Not good at all.

Blurry, poorly composed and Spencer blends in to the equipment, definitely one for the trash bin.

March 28th, 2011

20 Months!

Someone is 20 months old and already wants to go to school. Slow down little man!

January 2nd, 2011

Another Project(365)!

I decided to do a Project 365, where you take and post a photo every single day. I am so excited. I was going to do a reading challenge, but this seemed infinitely more completable (resolution #10). To make things interesting, I’m going to try and do mostly non-Spencer pictures.I have taken a picture of him every day since he was born and between wordless wednesday, week in pictures, general pictures on posts, and facebook, I think I post enough pictures of Spencer. If I do end up using him as the subject, it will be faceless.

Rather than post them here. I set up a tumblr 365Lemons so I can follow other people doing the project. If you are on tumblr, follow me so I can follow you back. WooHoo! So excited.