Random shots of winter.

Adjusted colors, added "small border"

Saturated slide film effect

Lomo

Old Fashioned photo, Added Lomo Vignette

My husband

This is my husband, soulmate, and best friend, Jeremey.

B&W, High Contrast

Handsome, isn’t he? 🙂 At first, he didn’t really get why I spent so much money on a SLR camera, but now he’s very supportive of my new hobby. Everyone has their toys that they spend some money on! He drives me around sometimes so I can try to get some good shots, and helps me brainstorm other places we can go when it gets warmer. When we went hiking a couple weeks ago, he went down by a stream and took some photos. Here’s the best one, I think it’s a great shot! I jazzed it up a little on Photoshop, of course, but even without the jazzing, it was a good photo.

This was taken by Jeremey:

Saturated Slide Film effect, Softened focus

 I didn’t do anything to the water, but it’s so pretty it almost looks fake. Great picture Jeremey!

And for kicks (get it?), just wanted to add one more. We saw these in Upland I think. You don’t see this very often any more…I like it.  Are those Nikes?!

Lomo Effect

More Trees Continued

Not sure why, but only half of the last post was published.

Here is another shot of my favorite tree. 🙂

Graphic Pen effect.

One looking upwards…

Made sky bluer, then Lomo effect.

Here’s a shot of the sky through branches…

Adjusted colors, then Fresco effect.

 And last but not least….I loved the way this tree looked when the sun was shining behind it….beautiful!

Made B&W, adjusted exposure, used Inner Ridge Border.

More trees

I know I’ve posted tree photos before, but I love trees! It sounds really corny, I’m aware of that, but they are great subjects to photograph. When it comes to trees, there are never 2 alike. Sometimes you may think, a tree is a tree, but when you really look at them and the details, they are intriguing. (InTREEguing) 🙂 And when I start to edit the photos, there are so many ways to make the photo look great.

I came across a tree last week, and when I took a picture of it, it seemed as though I caught it dancing. Too funny. Here are a few shots of it. Cool, huh?

Original, no edits

Torn Edges effect, then Sun Faded Photo.

Bridges of Grant County :)

Or just one bridge, I believe it’s in a town called Matthews? Anyway, my husband drove me down there to see a covered bridge, since we don’t have many of them around here. It’s called the Cumberland Bridge and was built in 1877.

I like the picture inside, there is a lot of repetition with the beams.

Lomo

Inside, "Old Paper" effect

Don’t let Mother Nature fool you, it’s still winter.

It reached 60 degrees today in northern Indiana. People drove with their windows down, I took an hour long walk, the foot of snow melted, and I’m sure some were out there with shorts on…but we just got spoiled for a day or 2. Don’t be fooled, winter will come back. And it will overstay its welcome even when spring officially arrives…so why not make the best of it?? I’ll admit, snow is beautiful, but there comes a time when you’re just ready for the temp to rise and the flowers to bloom!  But for now, here’s some more winter pictures. I think the last one is my favorite of these.

Overlooking a river

 

Old tree with Lomo effect

 

"Conte Crayon" effect

 

Blizzard, another Lomo effect

Old trucks = great photo opportunity.

My husband and I were driving out in the country today, with the purpose of my getting some shots because it’s a beautiful day! Even though there is still a foot of snow on the ground, the temp was 46 degrees before we left home. So we couldn’t pass up a chance to go out to a state park and go on a small hike and just get out of the house.

While we were out in the middle of nowhere, we passed a couple old trucks sitting in a field and we thought they were pretty cool…so after finding a place to park and trekking through a foot of snow we made it to the trucks. Haha…the things I do to get a cool photograph! This is the first time I’ve taken pictures of something like an old truck.

I’m playing around with the pictures trying to see what Photoshop effects would look best…and I think the Lomo Camera makes it look old-fashioned. I also tried sepia…classic.

(P.S. I’m just a little annoyed that my pictures are out of proportion…they are tall…hmm?)

Shoutout to my sister :)

My younger sister Laura and I are alike in a lot of ways. Even though we are 7 years apart, we share a lot of the same interests….such as music, sports teams, even school subjects, and most of all photography. She has that same passion for photography as I do. She got a Cannon Rebel when she graduated high school and has been taking fantastic pictures ever since.

I wanted to share with you some shots she got last month of our cousin Olivia. I think these are amazing. I love the way she edited them too…she has Photoshop CS. Whatever she did to make Olivia’s eyes look that beautiful…I want to know how to do that! So enjoy, and give her kudos for these awesome pictures!

P.S. Olivia, you should really be a model. 🙂

Again, these photos are by my sister Laura, not me.

Trees!

Trees have so much detail to them, and the are all so different, which is why they are great to photograph! (In my opinion…) Here’s some snowy trees with different effects done to them.

This one looks like a 60’s print…

Accented Edges

Plastic wrap makes it look like ice on the tree.

Plastic wrap feature

Stamp feature

Twirl

I'm a fan of Lomo camera

Snow pictures

I just learned how much fun it can be to work with snow pictures. You can really make objects pop in front of the white background.

I’m trying to find a setting on Photoshop where I can give the picture an iced look. I want my snow pictures to make you FEEL cold! Anyone know how to do this?

 

Lomo camera effect

Graphic Pen setting (Photoshop)