In my previous post, I shared my favorite shot from last weekend at the Rose Garden. I thought for my Pixel Perfect entry, that I’d share my editing steps with you. To be honest, this isn’t the best example because my SOOC was pretty decent (in my opinion).  I shoot in full manual…RAW, so it requires that I send every photo through Adobe Camera Raw (ACR). For those of you that don’t have ACR, it’s the light version of Light Room (or at least that’s my understanding). If you have Photoshop Elements, you already have ACR. You can either shoot RAW and open...

This morning when I checked in with “I Should Be Folding Laundry” this morning (btw, if you haven’t checked out this blog…do it), I was tickled to see that the YOU CAPTURE photo theme this week is your (my) best shot. This past weekend, my husband and I went to the Rose Garden – camera in hand, I took a number of pictures…and I’m still working through them. I thought I might save them for my 12 Weeks to Better Photos lesson on macros (and I will share most of them then), but I’m so glad to share one of my favorites today. I’ll create a...

I’m such a slacker…back in February, I thought I was going to start contributing to the photography board’s “Picture of the Week” (POTW). Well, I completed one and then lost track of the themes. Well, I’m back in the game and this week’s theme is “DIRTY.” In an effort to be a full participant, I’ve given 110% – this week, I’m not only contributing one photo…but two! Here are my entries: 1. Dirty Laundry2. Dirty Teenagers (Seriously people…in the woods?)If you’re interested, check out some of the other...