I heart faces - Fix it Friday #64

Another week, another Fix it Friday at I heart faces! 

Here's my edit.  I used the dodge & burn tools to make her eyes pop a bit more and to make her smile a tad brighter, then fiddled around with curve layers, saturation, etc until I got the look I wanted.  

How pretty is this little girl?!  I just love her freckles.

Here's the original:

 And here is the same edit with a different crop:

I did all of my editing this week using Adobe Photo Shop cs4.

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Family reunion

I've been really busy joining networking sites and sprucing up my blog.  I hope people like the new header & layout!

I just wanted to write a quick little entry about our day!  Today was Mike's family reunion, so we headed to Knox to barbecue and hang out for the day.

The highlight every year is the walk down to a creek where Mike hops in and tries to catch frogs!  While he did that, I took advantage of the opportunity to snap a few pictures of Miss Adison, and look how sweet this one came out!

And another of my favorites from the day (note Adison running away in the background, typical shot!)

And a closer crop, I just love the detail on this little flower!

Thanks for taking a peek, hope everyone else had a great weekend too!

4th of July part 2...fireworks!  Adison, Mike & I went over to Mike's work, where you can see Albany's fireworks over the river...I had forgotten that the display is obstructed by a building in the Plaza :(
I was so disappointed  when I was taking the pictures, but after a little editing and cropping, I am semi decently pleased with the results...I think for a first try, some are not half bad.
 
See the black rectangle? Yup, that's the offensive building!

Next we have this beauty....just some exposure adjustment (it was still really light out, so I had to adjust the exposure on all of these pretty heavily to darken them up and give them a night feeling!)

Which I then edited into this:  Not perfect, but I like it a lot better than the original at least!  Goodbye pesky building!

Some more...hate the crop on this, but I was not feeling the black rectangle yet again!

 

 This one totally turned out like a creepy bug!

My favorite of the night!

4th of July bbq

Happy 4th of July...a day late, but I'll make up for it w/ all of these pictures!

First part of the day, Adison & I went to a BBQ at my Aunt & Uncle's house..family, good food, and a big yard that Adison loved to run around in.  Definitely had a great time!  Here are some pictures of Adison, my cousin's kids, my mom & my brother!

Just a few pictures

no edits, I'm exhausted..but when did Adison get so big?!  I must have blinked...

Lake George day trip

We took Adison to Lake George on Wednesday this week.  It's a little tourist trap town about 45 mins north of us...who in upstate NY hasn't been to Lake George? Whether it is for a quickie day trip, a weekend camping, or longer, everyone I know loves to head to LG at least once a summer.  We did a day trip this time, hit the beach, chinese for lunch (Adison's choice!) & one arcade on the strip.

I just did a quick cleanup of these images in lightroom...nothing fancy!