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31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 29 {Onions}
Food photography can be fun. Sometimes I shoot food for recipe posts, but today's photo was serendipitous, the result of a quirky arrangement of onions that I'd just chopped. I didn't pose them, but found their form and symmetry visually appealing. Beauty in the...
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 28
Today's before and after photo shows how to crop to get the image you want. Two years ago I entered a photo contest held by Solo Cups. My dad suggested I include our dog in a photo, so I made party hats for Muffin and one of my daughters who particularly dotes on her....
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 27
Each month I create a downloadable desktop wallpaper for the readers of (in)courage. For the November 2011 calendar I added a texture overlay to my photo in Photoshop. Although I've never used it, a friend told me that you can create a layered image in Photoshop...
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 26 {Snapseed}
As technology continues to improve I'm more likely to leave my Nikon at home and rely on the camera that's always with me: my iPhone 4. Not only does it take surprisingly good photos, the editing programs are just plain fun. In honor of my usual Camera Phone Friday...
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 25 {Broken Wheel}
This photo also comes from our 25th anniversary trip to Cades Cove in Tennessee (see other photo on Day 18). I like to photograph old things, like the broken wagon wheel embedded in the ground and want the photo to look aged, like the subject itself. I don't often...
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 24
Sometime you open an image and it looks horrible—maybe your bad white balance is off or you composed it poorly—yet there's something you like about it, enough to try to salvage the photo. That's how I felt about this image from January of '09. If I remember correctly,...
Rockin’ the Roadtrip with the Kia Sorento
I look forward to the (in)courage authors' retreat in Hilton Head each year, especially since it's within driving distance for me. I enjoy hitting the road, even by myself. Starting in one place and ending up hundreds of miles away—where the weather and the scenery...
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 23 {Black & White Headshots}
Our homeschool group holds an annual Father Daughter Dance. Two years ago I did a special photo project beforehand to decorate a wall for the event. I was asked to take photos of as many fathers and daughters as I could and then edit and print them: high contrast...
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 22 {Composite Image}
This after shot is a composite of two before shots. I wanted the snow cover from the first image and the tire marks from the second. The Edits: Crop. Convert to black and white. Layer and combine the images in Photoshop to add the tire marks from the second image to...
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 21 {Field of Flags}
Remember on Day 12 when I told you how much I love photographing our county's Veterans' Day celebration? This shot is from another year's event and shows one of my favorite parts: the field of flags. I decided to have fun with this photo and give it some extra punch....
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