Before & After Shots: Cherry Blossom with Text

Before & After Shots: Cherry Blossom with Text

The edits for this week’s Sunday Scripture aren’t complicated, but they warm up the image (we can’t increase the temperature, but we can simulate spring in our photos, right?) and make it easier to add text. I usually keep the rule of thirds in mind...
Before & After Shots: Here Comes the Sun

Before & After Shots: Here Comes the Sun

Saturday evening my husband and four daughters attended our homeschool group Father/Daughter Dance, one of the highlights of a father’s existence. The fun for the mother (before she enjoys a quiet night at home or a mother/son date) is photographing them as they...
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 31 {Coca-Cola Sign}

31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 31 {Coca-Cola Sign}

Woo hoo! Can you believe we’ve made it to Day 31? Would you be interested in this series published as an ebook? If so, feel free to email me or leave it in the comments. I like photographing old things. Sometimes I take something new and make it look older by...
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 31 {Coca-Cola Sign}

31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 30 {Editing Skin}

On Day 19 we talked about splotchy skin. Today we’ll talk about another problem: zits. Thankfully it’s simple. I use Lightroom’s Spot Removal Tool for minor editing or the Spot Healing Brush Tool in Photoshop for more extensive work. You can read...
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 31 {Coca-Cola Sign}

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....
31 Days of Before & After Shots: Day 31 {Coca-Cola Sign}

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...

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