by Dawn Camp | Oct 24, 2012 | Before & After Shots, Lightroom, photography
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...
by Dawn Camp | Oct 24, 2012 | Before & After Shots, Lightroom, photography
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...
by Dawn Camp | May 28, 2012 | a day in the life, holidays, Lightroom
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. ~2 Chronicles 7:14 This photo remains one of my...
by Dawn Camp | Mar 19, 2012 | beauty in the mundane, Lightroom, photography
Pin It LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me...
by Dawn Camp | Mar 12, 2011 | beauty in the mundane, Lightroom, photography, tutorials
Sometimes I have a very clear plan with photography: I see something and have a vision for what I hope to create as the finished product, working with settings, composition, and post-processing to try to achieve it. Other times it’s more random; something about...
by Dawn Camp | Jan 3, 2011 | contests & giveaways, family & friends, iHeartFaces, Lightroom, photography
This week’s theme at iHeartFaces is “Best Face Photo of 2010.” If I had to choose a photo from 2010 that is most compelling to me, it would be this one of my youngest daughter at a Braves’ game this summer. We were on the very top row of the...
