Project 52: Week 4

I am a day late but I took this yesterday. This picture is of my youngest playing hockey. I used the Pioneer Woman's action called 'Colorized' to edit it. I think it looks kind of neat with the red standing out.

Blog Hop

I'm participating in a blog hop with before and after pictures. Thought it would be fun so here goes:

Before: SOOC (Straight out of Camera)

After:

I shot this with a Nikon D40 with 55 mm kit lens. I first converted it to black & white and then added the CoffeeShop Blog's "Buttercream" action.

I'm linking up with Pixel Perfect

Project 52: Week 3

Okay so I took this one a day early but I have to put this as my week 3 picture. We went to visit friends yesterday and meet their new sweet baby girl, Addison. She has a great big brother too, Jacob! I was doing some shots of Addison and asked Jacob to give her a kiss. Good thing I was ready with the camera because he wasn't about to do it again. It is one of the sweetest pictures I've ever taken!

Project 52: Week 2

I took this picture of my boys this week for Valentine's Day cards.

New Camera Bag

I acquired a new 55-100 mm lens for my camera back in October. At first I didn't use it much because I couldn't attach it to my camera and put it in my camera bag. Thus came my quest for a new bag to store my camera and now TWO lenses. I have been on a site called Clickin' Moms as a way to learn more about photography and someone mentioned etsy.com. OF COURSE! Duh! It was my a-ha moment and I was off in search of a fun new bag.

It took me a bit to find just the one I wanted. I didn't want to spend too much but had to have something that worked for all my equipment and maybe more. So I finally found this beauty by Janine King Designs. It is pretty and functional. The only thing I miss is having a zipper to keep things tightly secure. Oh well...so worth the pretty that I will learn to live without it!

Props

I am so excited I got these new headbands to use for props from Kamieo's Creations. You can find her on Facebook and Etsy. She had a 'comment game' on facebook where she posts a picture and then says comment #_ gets the item. Let me tell you it is quite addicting. Kind of like ebay only faster! I can't wait to use these!

Project 52: Week 1

So I am a little late getting this posted but here is my week 1 picture. It is a shot of a gorgeous mug that my mother-in-law bought me for Christmas to go in my kitchen. I have roosters in my kitchen as a decoration and it matches perfectly!

MCP Project 52

The goal is to take one picture every week and add it to the group. I had also read about a 365 where you take a different picture every day but I really don't know if I can commit to that much with the busy that is my life so I'm going to shoot for this one.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone! We spent New Year's Eve as a family and it was wonderful...plus no hangover the next day;) We did not make it to go see that new baby and try my first shoot because a couple of us were sick. Would have hated to pass a sickness along to their family. So maybe in a couple weeks.