Photography Friday

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I've been trying to practice with my camera as much as I can. Today's goal was to A. Get a good picture of my sweet Jessie. And B. Figure out how to make my pastey-white family look not so pastey-white.

Started with the dog who was completely uncooperative.




So, then I added in Graham.  Who was helpful, but doesn't like it when I post pictures of his somewhat bald head. 




Then we moved on to pastey-white children with blonde hair. I haven't completely worked out how to not wash her out but I did shoot these all in Manual mode which I am quite proud of!






I'm getting there. Slowly. But getting there.

Elementary

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One of the benefits of working in an elementary school is that you get to have fun days like "International Children's Day."  Different countries were represented and I got "Henna'd" in India. Super fun!

I hate to toot my own horn...

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But, tooty toot toot I'm so proud of this blanket!!  I call it the "Meemaw"



Photo fun!

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Wednesday night is dance night and it lasts for an hour and a half!!  SHEESH..the things we do for our kids!!  A couple of weeks ago, a new restaurant opened two doors down.  Now that we have happy hour, 1.5 hours doesn't seem so bad.  Christian and I have gone a couple of times for drinks and chips and salsa and today I brought along my camera to play around with my new lens.  This first pic is not my best composed picture but it's the only one where Christian has a decent expression - he truly is the world's worst model. 


Then we went back down to watch Lucy some.  Again, not the greatest photo but I just would like to point out that I took this picture of her dancing with NO flash..indoors! Amazing!


The next one was a bit tricky and still needs a little work but I love it! 


THEN, I discovered this website called Picnik  Do people know about this? Am I totally late to the party?  I LOVE it!!  It's how I got the above pictures to have rounded corners (although, the effect was ruined once I uploaded them to the blog...I'll have to keep working on it).  But, more importantly, it's how I managed this little gem: