Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Frustration with Auto-Focus

It seems like forever since I have posted on the blog, but it's actually only been 2 and a half weeks.  In the intervening time, I have still been working at trying to get Senior Portraits for my son.

We went back to the garden near the lake near sunset this time.  Here are a couple of the shots I got.




In both of these photos, I see that his shirt is in perfect focus, but when I zoom in to do some minor touch-ups, I find that his eyes are still not focused.  I could have sworn that I auto-focused with the little dot blinking over his eye, but the pictures come back with fuzzy looking eyes!  So frustrating!!!  Of course, the perfectionist in me is still not satisfied!!!

On the bright side, after posting these on facebook, I had a former student call me up and ask me to take her photos.  :)  That should be a lot of fun! 

More later!

Tiffany

Monday, June 27, 2011

1, 2, 3, SMILE!!!

I tried to take photos of my children and create a Father's Day gift for my husband and both of our fathers.  What a challenge!  I have taken pictures of each of the kids in the last year and they are pretty good models.  However, (!!!)  trying to get all three of them to look at me and smile with a genuine smile was SO difficult!  If I think I might want to be a photographer some day, I need to work on my getting-people-to-smile skills!!

The resulting shots are actually somewhat amusing (at least to me.)  So much so, that I submitted one of them to Pioneer Woman's Funny Face contest.  She didn't choose my shots, but that's okay - there are SO MANY wonderful shots submitted.  You should check out her page if you don't already!

Here are some of the ... um... interesting shots that I got from the session.







Unfortunately, this is the best picture of the youngest one... I wish my photoshop skills were good enough to merge the faces on one photo...






*sigh*.....................

In the end, I wound up using the very first shot I took.  How nuts is that??  Here is the finished product as it is at the moment.  I edited it on Picnik which is a good site to use in a pinch.



Have a happy (and funny faced) Monday!

Tiffany