A Few Quick Shots

Here are a few photos I've been playing around with.  Brian and I just bought Adobe Lightroom 3 (great sale...check out Slickdeals.net) so I'm hoping to try that for organizing and editing my photos.  We'll see how different it is. I currently use Gimp for editing, which is free and a really great alternative to Photoshop.  It's taken me about a year of poking around and watching tons of youtube tutorials to really start getting a handle on it.  I'm crossing my fingers that this knowledge base will transfer at least somewhat for Lightroom :)

My current favorite

Wally is getting quite cuddly these days.  He loves to grab a stuffed animal and smash it into his face.  The same goes for Hazel.  I really had to play around with the effect of the picture above in Gimp because I liked it but couldn't quite get the look I was going for.  This is as close as I could come.  The trouble was the windows, which originally just looked like washed out trees.  So I did a Lomo effect which just whitewashed out the windows completely, brought the saturation way down, and cropped out all the junk on the floor in front of Wally.

 

I really wish I had been on the other side of this one to get the faces.  Oh well!

Sunbathing and getting a little R&R while Wally takes a nap

My next few are a storytelling sequence.  Brian and Wally have really been into Megablocks recently. Look closely.... who's really playing blocks?