Week 7 by Becky

Self Portrait - July 14, 2011

This photo was taking for my personal Project 50, where I take a self portrait on the 14th day of each month until I turn 50. This is my 3rd self portrait. I have always loved photography. I love looking at photos and I love taking photos. I love messing with photos in Photoshop. I enjoy turning our vacation photos into photo books. I am all about memories and catching the moment. My first SLR was a Nikon. I have had other brands over the years, but finally went back to my old love and bought my Nikon DSLR last year. I love it.

Week 6 by Becky

COWGIRL

Arrggh, I hate when I don't check my ISO. This photograph was shot with the ISO set to 2000. So it has more noise in it than I wanted. I still like the photo; I just hate that my ISO was set so high. I normally like to shoot around 200. Oh well, live and learn. Anyway, this was good practice for processing a photo with a lot of noise. This is my daughter who graciously posed for me for this week's blog. Normally, she isn't an easy model because she gets frustrated that I take so long to get a shot and I keep saying pose one more time. I am always wanting to get better at taking portrait shots so I thought no better time than now. Shot using available window light. Opened in Photoshop and messed around to achieve this trendy high contrast look. I followed Scott Kelby's photo tips on achieving this. Also played around with skin softening techniques. Not that she needed it, but it is nice how it came out.

Week 3 by Becky

Asked to Pose One Too Many Times!

Came up with the idea that myself, Shella, and Tommy would do a family portrait for Tom, my husband and their father, for Fathers Day. They are my toughest models. They agreed since it was for their dad. I had everything set up so this would go smoothly since I know I have a short span with them. I evidently asked them to pose just one too many times and this is what happened. Needless to say, we were done after that. Seriously, they did fine; they just wanted to do a funny shot. I thought we were going to make faces, but right before the shutter they did this to me so it just fit with the theme of asking them to pose one too many.

Happy Fathers Day to all the Fathers!