Kristi's Photo a Day

Friday, February 20, 2009

Day 48 and 49

I'm posting out of order today. This week I'm taking pictures of Maya's favorites and I want to post those all together. Here are some goofy pictures to fill in the days we didn't do favorites. I took these photos today inside without my flash. My flash is upstairs in my bedroom and both times I wanted to take the picture before I lost the moment. This shows you how much I hate my built in flash. I'd rather have a grainy photo than a super bright built in flash photo. I did try to take a few of Serena with the flash but they were awful! Did you see my previous post? That one actually turned out ok!! :)

Day 49



Here's a silly photo of Alison. She was sitting at dinner all bunched up like this. It really made me laugh how rectangular she was with her head scrunched in. Then I realized with that black shirt the reason it looked so funny to me is that she looks just like the Jolly Roger!!! ha ha

Day 48



I love these pictures of Serena! She was recounting her tales of visiting the queen. She can go on and on with her stories and they vary between being quite imaginative and completely random. This story even included a missed trip to space because they didn't have a the right space clothes. I love how much she gets into it - you can see from her expressions she is in full blown drama mode.

And here is my photo tip for the day, maybe. I have a terrible time with Serena's skin tone with indoor photos when my white balance is off. With Alison and Maya's pale skin I have less trouble removing the yellowish cast but when I do the same thing for Serena her skin ends up too gray, but if I warm it back up it's too yellow again. Today I was adjusting these photos while she sat next to me. I finally added a sepia photo filter to these pictures and her skin tone looks so much better. I'm anxious to see if this works for all my photos. Really I should just learn to use a card and get my white balance right in the first place and/or shoot in RAW. Both of these photos were so yellow to start with there is only so much I know how to do to fix them.

9 comments:

  1. Thanks for stopping by my blog Kristi! Glad I found you too! Your photos are so colorful and full of life. Good tip on the skin tone!

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  2. Gorgeous photos! Love the series of photos and the first one with the goofy face! Excellent capture of expressions. :)

    White balance can be a tricky thing ... I'm constantly fighting with correcting skin tones and really need to practice with my grey card a little more too!

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  3. Great tip! Great photos and that one of Allison cracks me up!

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  4. I love that Serena can tell stories like that! Kate has never done that, how fun to have such an imagination. Love the group of pics and the one of Alison is so cute! I keep thinking about RAW too...

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  5. I like how animated Serena is while telling her story! :)

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  6. Adorable photos! Great tip I never thought of adding a sepia tone on a color photo. I will have to try that out.

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  7. Your girls are always so luminescent! Cherish those princess photos -- they go into diva-hood so quickly!

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  8. GREAT photos! I love the one of Allison, that really made me smile tonight!! Serena does look like a great story teller!!

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  9. Oh my goodness they have so much character LOL, not only are your girls gorgeous but they are just sooooo much fun!! Great tip too. I love the warming filters for b&w and never thought to really use them that way. Awesome!

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