Several weeks ago, Cassie sent me a request to doctor up the photo below for Father’s Day.  This is a picture of her husband and his father. The lighting in her photo was wrong and she didn’t care for the background. As you’ve seen in the past couple of Before & After postings, a background can easily be replaced. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve worked on this Before & After, so my steps are foggy (I even saved the PSD files and those aren’t helpful). Rather than give you the wrong information, let’s just say I removed the background,...

Happy Father’s Day! I don’t have much to say right now, so I’ll get straight to the scavenger hunt. You’ll be happy to know that I got out of the house for a few of these shots. 1. Sky – the other shot I took at the pool last weekend.2. Reflection – my reflection at the Rose Garden…I look like a big blob.3. Health – my gym shoes. 4. Sun Flare – Maddie (more of her and a few other cuties later) at the Rose Garden yesterday.5. Two of a Kind – my birthday…that’s right, Tuesday.Did you participate in the Scavenger Hunt? If...

Today, I finally got to meet Miss Maddie (and of course her mother) as well as a few other girls from the Photography Board (and their children) at the Rose Garden. I don’t regularly have moving subjects to photograph, so it was quite the treat…and challenge, to practice on them. I am far from done haven’t quite started editing the photos from our session, but I wanted to share one of Maddie. I call this one “happiness.”Yeah yeah, I totally violated the limb chop rule…but her face is priceless, so there. ISO 200, 65mm, f/2.8, 1/500 sec, Spot Metering...