Tres gets the treatment

I took the original photo (shot in June of last year, so she would have been 8mo) and gave it a cross processed look via a curves adjustment layer in Photoshop. That looked cool, but I thought I'd like to rough it up a little more so I zoomed in on some rusty barrels Mary and I photographed on our recent explore and overlayed that for texture (masking out the skin a bit).

Mary, I hope that someday you'll be able to load Photoshop onto your computer. I have so many tricks I want to teach you! :-*


~RCH~

Recent photo explores

I've been busy preparing for (and now enjoying until next Friday) MIL's visit, so I haven't been able to mess with all the photos I've taken recently. But here are a few to whet your appetite:

A couple weeks ago Mary used one of her vacation days to play with me and drive around my little rural county taking pictures. This is one of my favorites.



(Mary, do you remember the ones of yours I said I wanted copies of? I still want them. You know, whenever. And also that very angry / sad one of Dos wearing her Happy shirt from when Eliza visited.)

Okay, then later Beckle the Freckle and her super adorable family came up to play. Her mom was raised not far from where I now live, so Beckle took us to all the cool ancestral spots. I made this panoramic shot by piecing together a bunch of different ones in Photoshop. The piecing is not perfect -- I'm new to that -- but oh well. Irish, I'd be happy to make you a print of this if you like it. (Or you could wait for me to post the rest and see if you like anything else. Or I could go back when things are more green and see if I can get even better photos. I really like your home towns!)



I have plenty more from both of those days, but it takes forever to upload things on my stupid slow dial-up connection so they are, for the moment, stuck on my hard drive. I promise to put them up someday, though. :-)


~RCH~

I could eat Tres up

Seriously, would you look at that smile?



The color is from natural window light in front of her face, a hot pink curtain behind her and orangey tungsten light above and to the right. I sharpened a bit around the eyes, and added a vignette. Not much else. She's super cute all on her own. :-)


~RCH~