bla bla bla blog: Halloween 1, 2, 3

Thursday, November 01, 2007

Halloween 1, 2, 3

~RCH~

5 comments:

anna jo said...: sis, you are the coolest. and your kids are the coolest.

I love the cool cat, the princess, and the sack o' potatoes. too cute.; November 01, 2007 6:27 PM
mary plus vince said...: too cute! oh my goodness, I just love your girlies!

And beautiful pictures too, sis!; November 01, 2007 8:59 PM
~B. said...: Awww! Sooo cute! How do you always get such great lighting in your photos? Or are you photoshopping great lighting into them?? Seriously! I need pointers!; November 02, 2007 1:04 AM
Beckle the Freckle said...: Ohhhhh! They are all so cute! Where did you get your fabulous Idaho Potato iron-on? I LOVE it! She's the cutest potato ever. Tell those cute girls we are missing them. :); November 02, 2007 8:42 AM
RCH said...: Thanks, everyone!

Becca: I try to use natural light as much as possible; none of these was taken with a flash. Uno and Tres were in front of my living room's big picture window (Uno in the morning, with the light shining directly in; Tres in the evening with much weaker light and supplemented by household light which messed with the color, blah). Dos's picture -- which is, by far, the most fabulous -- was taken outside just a hair before sunset.

I did use Photoshop on all three, of course; I can't help myself, lol. With Uno, I messed with the contrast -- increased it on her black clothes, softened it on the skin tones. With Dos I did one of my favorite tricks (which I'll be happy to demonstrate if we ever do that class thing!) -- I made the whites of her eyes brighter and the color of her eyes and her eyelashes darker. It's a subtle effect, but it really makes them pop! I also airbrushed out her stray eyebrows (which, like mine, sadly go almost all the way down to her eyelids); that seemed kinder than plucking them, lol. Tres required lots of Photoshopping because the lighting turned out to be pretty crappy (I should have photographed her earlier in the day). I had to brighten her up and do a lot of real basic color correction. I'm not sure I did a very good job, but oh well. Nothing fancy on her picture besides those fix-ups.

Mrs. McMitchell: I got the iron on from the official Idaho Potatoes web site; they had a whole page of fun potatoey clip art. Thank goodness the drug store here in town had iron-on transfer paper! I don't think I could have made it look as good by hand, and at that point (I didn't bother to try until Wednesdsay afternoon, lol) I didn't have time to go to the big city to get some! :-); November 02, 2007 10:45 AM