{{ this moment }}

a single photo capturing a simple, special, extraordinary moment 
from the week. inspired by soulemama
and The Coffeeshop Blog

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My oldest daughter . . . .
Who just happens to be expecting our first grandbaby . . .(also a daughter . . .)











Kristin ~picasa~ ~flickr~ Sony all the way! Sony A700 & A300  50mm/f1.7 Tokina 28-70 1.2.8, DT18-70mm/f3.5-5.6, DT55-200mm/f4-5.6 loving it!  Personal Blog, Photo Bloghttp://www.soulemama.com/soulemama/2011/05/this-moment-2.html#comments

For all you Photography friends out there . . .

Just wanted to let you know about a special deal going on at my
FAVORITE
photography forum . . .





It is an amazing forum to improve your photography skills, learn more about the business end of things from seasoned professionals, and share your own work and experience with others.

I really enjoy Rock The Shot because the site is so helpful whether you're just starting out taking photographs of your family members or even if you are an experienced professional - I feel like they offer something for everyone!

They have special free products (tutorials, photoshop actions, templates) for all their members, even if you just do a little test drive to become familiar with the forum.  I was hooked almost immediately.






Right now they make it easy to give Rock The Shot a try as they are offering 20% off of ALL membership plans. You need to enter code RTSfan as you check out -- and ENJOY this fun opportunity to improve your skills and learn from a great team.

A Trial membership is just $6.00 for one week  ($4.80 with discount)
$18.00 for three months ($14.40 with discount)
$30 for six months  ($24 with discount)
One year is $50 ($40 with discount)
and
a Lifetime membership $175 ($140 with discount)



Okay - and now back to our regularly scheduled programming . . . .  :D







Kristin ~picasa~ ~flickr~ Sony all the way! Sony A700 & A300  50mm/f1.7 Tokina 28-70 1.2.8, DT18-70mm/f3.5-5.6, DT55-200mm/f4-5.6 loving it!  Personal Blog, Photo Blog

May Flowers

May Flowers?

We should have enough of them around here . . .
after all those April showers!


You all know I LOVE
picnik.com


Just wanted to share some of the fun things 
you can do over there . . . 




This is a SOOC shot . . .not to shabby!



After croppingadjusting exposuresoftening focusand adding a few textures from picnik

But I have to say . . .
I DO
think this is my
FAVORITE!










Kristin ~picasa~ ~flickr~ Sony all the way! Sony A700 & A300  50mm/f1.7 Tokina 28-70 1.2.8, DT18-70mm/f3.5-5.6, DT55-200mm/f4-5.6 loving it!  Personal Blog, Photo Blog

Making you smile . . .

Makin' you
SMILE!

Come on you know I did :)

Couldn't resist sharing this photo on one of my favorite photo hangouts

Darling Anna,

graduating senior - should be super model

We had so much fun!  Isn't it obvious?

Kristin ~picasa~ ~flickr~ Sony all the way! Sony A700 & A300  50mm/f1.7 Tokina 28-70 1.2.8, DT18-70mm/f3.5-5.6, DT55-200mm/f4-5.6 loving it!  Personal Blog, Photo Blog

Some Tricky Editing!

I love photoshop and use it lots for my photography business.  I am also learning more and more about lightroom all the time.  It is my NEW favorite!  Don't know how I lived without it for so long!

That said, I seldom do really hard pro photoshop stuff!  I use about the same 10% of photoshop features every day.  But I really couldn't resist attempting this edit . . .

This is my first attempt and I'm going to redo it as I'm thinking of a different way that would perhaps increase the quality - but wanted to share this . . .






This was a great shot!  But notice #1 guy on the left . . .

He was a 1/10 of a second behind on his jump, compared to his peers in photo 2 below.




See his height in this photo?

It would be a shame to use either photo - so I superimposed one photo on top of the other and edited out the parts I didn't want to use of each photo.

Actually, it was much more complicated than that . . . but that's the basic premise.

And ended up with this photo below with a little more tweaks, texture and grain applied.




(don't look THAT closely!!)

I love the new output  - think those guys all look pretty fantastic!



Kristin ~picasa~ ~flickr~ Sony all the way! Sony A700 & A300  50mm/f1.7 Tokina 28-70 1.2.8, DT18-70mm/f3.5-5.6, DT55-200mm/f4-5.6 loving it!  Personal Blog, Photo Blog