This week the challenge at iheartfaces is smiles. For anyone who doesn’t know about this site, you should check it out. It’s a great photography resource, as well as eye candy if you love photography!!!
Tag: Senior portraits
Not always the perfect model…..
It’s definitely handy to have kids around to practice taking pictures……and she’s definitely my go-to-girl when I need someone to pose, although today she WASN’T a perfect model. Thought I would get her to let me take a few pics so I could experiment with some editing but instead I got these……………………………………………….Freaking out over a TEENY TINY spider she saw……
……and here she is……………..still freaking out over the spider……..I know she gets it from me, LOL!
Here she’s just irritated…..she’s trying to make a deal with me for posing…………..the deal isn’t working
and now just annoyed and refusing to help me out.
Happy Easter!
Oh my goodness, I just love shooting newborns! This little guy would not cooperate, he didn’t fall asleep the whole time! He’s just lovely though, and since it’s Easter weekend I have time to share just one of him. I’ll have more ready later!
Playing with actions
So forever, I’ve been doing everything in Photoshop the long way. I finally decided to try out some actions. So I downloaded some from Pioneer Woman and Coffeshop and thought I’d show some of my favorites. I started with this pic, which is pretty much straight out of the camera, except I cloned out some of the jelly sandwich that was around her mouth and a little scratch (from the cat) on her cheek. LOL anyway, here’s where I started…
And here is the photo after running Coffe Shop’s action Soft Autumn glow. Kinda cool, but I like the others to come better.
Now here’s the picture after running Coffe Shop’s Splendor black and white….
And here it is with the same action from Coffe Shop…Splendor black and white except I tweaked some of the layers and came up with this, which I think is my favorite of the ones here.
And finally here is an action from Pioneer Woman called Seventies…….I kind of like this too…..although you can get this same effect if you lay your pictures out in the sun and let them fade for about 35 years……….
Anyway, just having some fun with actions, thought I’d let everyone in on it♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
I Heartfaces weekly challenge “angles”
Another picture of one of my daughters.
My daughter does pose for me, but with all the grumbling that goes along with it, the fleeting moments when she’s NOT making it difficult are hard to capture! Five minutes and she’s DONE so I have to move quickly.
Selina Phillips Photography
My Daughter in her faux fur coat. She looked so sweet in it I couldn’t resist making her stand still while I took a picture.
My entry for the ( iheartfaces.com) challenge, All Bundled Up, this week.
My son who does not like to pose for me!
My poor children are plagued with a mother who wants to photograph them all the time. Today was no exception, since it was the first day of the year that I we didn’t have to wear coats! It will surely get cold again, and possibly even snow, so I thought I better take advantage of it while I could. My son was not amused.
And this is another son who does like to pose, but in his own special way!!!
A daughter who does like to pose, and likes to play with the cat, but doesnt like to have her hair brushed or wear any sort of accessories in it!
Yet another son who will pose, but grumbles about it the whole time, and suggests how I should be doing it!
Trying out a new lens
My daughter is now toothless!!
So those of you who know me, know that my daughter’s tooth was knocked out YEARS ago…..she finally lost the other one because it was time. This is so cute to me, she finally has a matching empty spot in front!
Selina Phillips Photography 
