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a few minutes each day....

“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.”

~M. Grundler~

 

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Earth laughs in flowers.   

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dress Up!!

Yesterday, I did a little photo shoot with Niklas. I hmmd and hawwwd about whether I should do it or not but in the end it was so much fun and I'm glad we did it. Whether or not he will appreciate this photo shoot when I show the pictures at his wedding is another question. But last night we had lots of fun and giggles together!

 

Just a little note: Niklas is wearing a dress that I received as a child from my Grandma. 

Fix-It Friday #65 at i heart faces

Fix-It Friday time at iheartfaces!!

Today's photo is of Andrea Riley’s cute little boy. Here is the original:

and this is my edit:

What I did:
I opened the picture up in Lightroom 3 and did minor white balance and exposure adjustments then went into CS5 photoshop with it.

I have found that AMP has a fantastic action for pictures that have shadows like this one. It's called Daydream and it's one of her freebies. It can be found here: http://amymcmasterphotography.com/category/amp-actions-lightroom-presets/freebies/photoshop/ I started off by running this action and then I even duplicated that action layer so that I had it twice. I masked out the eyes on both action layers, leaving a little bit on the eye on the right side of the picture that was in the shadows. I also turned off the haze layer in one of the action layers. Then flattened the image and ran AMPs clean it up action, tweaking the layers until I was happy and flattening it again. I also cloned out the very tiny bit hanging out of his nose and blurred the background a tiny bit. Did a slight sharpen on only his eyelashes, flattened and added a tiny frame.

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